Virginia Readers’ Choice
Sponsored by The Virginia State Reading Association in association with The Virginia Educational Media Association, The Virginia Library Association, and The Library of Virginia Youth Services.
The purpose of VRC is to encourage young readers to become better acquainted with contemporary books with outstanding literary appeal, to broaden students’ awareness of literature as a life-long pleasure, to encourage reading aloud in classrooms as a means of introducing reading for pleasure, and to honor favorite books and their authors.
Virginia Readers’ Choice Lists 2023-2024
Primary Titles:
Are You a Cheesburger? by Monica Arnaldo
The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson
Except Antartica by Tom Sturgell
It Fell From the Sky by The Fan Brothers
Survivor Tree by Marcie Colleen
I Don't Want to Read this Book by Max Greenfield
Mindful Mr. Sloth by Katy Hudson
The Library Fish by Alyssa satin Capucelli
Chester Van Chime Who Forgot How to Rhyme by Avery Monsen
Digging for Words: Jose Alberto Gutierrez and the library He Built by Angela Burke Kunkel
Elementary Titles:
Too Small Tola by Atinuke
Stuck by Jennifer Swender
Braver: A Wombat's Tale by Suzanne Selfors
Measuring Up by Lily LaMotte
Twins by Carian Johnson & Shannon Wright
Nicky and Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust by Peter Sis
Mimic Makers: Biomimicry Inventors Inspired by Nature by Kristen Nordstrom
Things Seen from Above by Shelley Pearsall
The Best of Iggy by Annie Barrows
Oh, Rats! by Tor Seidler