Each year, media specialists across the state of Florida come together to choose 15 books they deemed worthy of a Sunshine State Young Reader Award. Students in grades 3-5 are encouraged to read these books.

This year's list is as follows:

Blue Ghost by Marion Dane Bauer Lexile 440

No Talking  by Andrew Clements Lexile 820

Missing Manatee, The by Cynthia DeFelice Lexile 830

Sloppy Copy Slipup, The by DyAnne DiSalvo

Phineas L. MacGuire...Erupts!: The First Experiment by Frances O'Roark Dowell Lexile 810

Stumptown Kid by Carol Gorman and Ron J. Findley Lexile 620

Thing about Georgie, The by Lisa Graff Lexile 770

Homework Machine, The by Dan Gutman Lexile 680

Dexter the Tough by Margaret Peterson Haddix Lexile 690

The Ghost's Grave by Peg Kehret Lexile 790

Rules by Cynthia Lord Lexile 780

Roxie and the Hooligans by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Lexile 930

Clementine by Sara Pennypacker Lexile 790

Stupendous Dodgeball Fiasco, The by Janice Repka Lexile 710

Listen! by Stephanie S. Tolan Lexile 910

'08-'09 Florida Reading Association Books

Students in grades K-2 are encouraged to read the eight books chosen each year by the Florida Reading Association. This year's titles are:

Do Unto Otters by L. Keller

Emma's Turtle by Eve Bunting

Gooey's Jellyfish by Natalie Lunis

Martina the Beautiful Cockroach by C. A. Deedy

Max's Words by K. Banks

Toad by the Road by J. Ryder

Winston the Book Wolf by M. McGee

Woolbur by L. Helakoski