ORCA

Oregon Reader’s Choice Award- This Year’s Winners and Nominate Titles Now

Lindsey Quigley-Johnson Youth anbd Community Services Librarian Creswll Library

Here’s a PDF for the complete list for all grade level divisions, or visit the ORCA page on the OLA website for slide decks, printable spine labels, and more information about ORCA.

The ORCA committee also needs your help suggesting books to be considered for next year. This Nomination Form is open through the end of December for any students or adults who work in an Oregon school and/or library.  All students in grades 3-12 who read or listen to at least two of the books will qualify to vote in March-April, 2024.


What makes a great nomination?  The ORCA Committee strives to select well-rounded lists featuring books that are of high quality and interest to their readers and represent diversity in perspective, authorship, and content. Books can be part of a series, but ideally, it will be the first in the sequence. Additionally,  the book must have been first published in the United States in 2022 and readily available.


Please don’t hesitate to reach out to the ORCA Committee at orca@olaweb.org!

ORCA Awards Voting Now Open

From Stuart Levy, ORCA Chair:

“With tomorrow beingMarch, people can officially start to vote for their favorite Oregon Reader’s
Choice Award book.

Please encourage your students and your patrons to vote for their favorite ORCA
book. As long as they have read 2 or more books in any of the 3 divisions, then
they are allowed to vote in that division. Since there were a number of
crossover books, any student who competed in OBOB is eligible to vote in the
ORCA.

People have until March 31st to vote. Please collect the votes
at your school or library. There are paper ballots that you can download from
the ORCA website (http://www.olaweb.org/orca),
or you can create your own. You also could do an electronic ballot, if you
would rather. I have made a Google form for my students to use for voting that
I am willing to share. Google has now changed how they can be shared, so you
cannot easily just use mine. If you want an electronic ballot, which you can
modify to only show some of the divisions, please email me with your Google
account and I can make one for you. (Yes, you have to have a Google account to
use this particular electronic ballot.)

Once you have the votes for your building all tallied, please submit them using
this Google form: http://bit.ly/orca2014 .
Please submit your overall votes by April 4th.

Thank you SO much for promoting reading through the Oregon Reader’s Choice
Award. Later in April we will announce the winners, plus the titles for the
2015 ORCA Divisions.”