Panda+Award


 * 2017 **
 * Voting starts on Monday 6 until 20 February! **
 * Link to vote for your favourite read will be published HERE. **


 * What is happening? **
 * * An eclectic bunch of International School Librarians choose 8 books in each category, published in the last 2 years **
 * * Older Readers are for grade 6-8. **
 * * Mature Readers are for grade 9-12. **
 * * Students in many international schools around the world read the books, talk about them, recommend titles to others. **
 * * They - //the students//! - then vote for their Winner, the book they like best. **
 * * The author of the winning book gets the Panda Award! **

** Read __as many books as you can__, and then VOTE.... 6 February 2017 the voting website will open. **
=The titles for 2017 announced...... =


 * OLDER READERS (Grades 6-8)**

Goodbye Stranger, by Rebecca Stead. Awkward, by Svetlana Chmakova. The Nest, by Kenneth Oppel and Jon Klassen. The Singing Bones, by Shaun Tan. Friends for Life, by Andre Norriss. Starflight, by Melissa Landersen. The thing about jellyfish, by Ali Benjamin. Fish in a tree, by Lynda Mullaly Hunt.


 * MATURE READERS (Grades 9-12)**

Bone Gap, by Laura Ruby. Everything Everything, by Nicola Yoon. Salt to the Sea, by Ruta Sepetys Challenger Deep, by Neil Shusterman. Carry On, by Rainbow Rowell. Popular, by Maya van Wagenen. Symphony for the City of the Dead, by M.T. Anderson. Nimona, by Noelle Stevenson.