All you have to do to vote in the RICBA election in February is read three of the twenty books on the list.
Nominees for 2026:
Click the icon below to go to the Cranston Public Library online catalog. Use your library card number to request books; the system will email you when they're ready for you to pick up.
You can also borrow e-books and download audiobooks from home!
2025: The Boy Who Tried to Shrink his Name
2024: Killer Underwear Invasion
2023: Allergic
2022: The Oldest Student
2021: Titan and the Wild Boars
2020: Inky's Amazing Escape
2019: Sergeant Reckless
2018: Wish
2017: Sisters
2016: El Deafo
2015: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
AASL: I.B.3 - Generate products that illustrate learning; V.A.1 - Read widely and deeply in multiple formats and write and create for a variety of purposes.
Rhode Island Core: RI.3.2 - Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea; RI.4/5.2 - Summarize a text; SL.3.2 - Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud; SL.4/5.2 - Summarize a written text read aloud
Rhode Island Cross-Curricular Proficiencies: Communication - Identify relevant information, communicate understanding and interpretation of information, summarize information, present information and ideas coherently
Rhode Island School Library Curriculum Priority Skills: 1.1 - States the main idea with some supporting details; 2.1 - Discusses the main idea or theme of a story; 4.1 - Demonstrates motivation to read and learn on own