The Sunshine State Young Readers Award (SSYRA) Program is a statewide reading motivational program for students in grades K through 8, sponsored by the Florida Department of Education (DOE) and Florida Association for Media in Education (FAME).
The purpose of the SSYRA Program is to encourage students to read independently for pleasure and to read books that are on, above, and below their reading level in order to improve their reading fluency. Sunshine State books are selected for their wide appeal, literary value, varied genres, curriculum connections, and/or multicultural representation. The SSYRA committee is comprised of 20 qualified school librarians located throughout the state of Florida.
For more information on the Sunshine State Young Readers Awards, click here. View the booklist in our catalog.
Rick the Rock of Room 214 by Julie Falatko
Don't Eat bees : Life lessons from Chip the Dog by Dev Petty
The Greatest in the World by Ben Clanton
Out of the Blue by Robert Tregoning
The Duck Never Blinks by Alex Latimer
Mr. S by Monica Arnaldo
Awesome Orange Birthday by Mitali Banerjee Ruths
Worm and Caterpillar are Friends by Kaz Windness
Evergreen by Matthew Cordell
My Pet Feet by Josh Funk
We are Going to be Pals! by Mark Teague
Got Your Nose! by Alan Katz
Carina Felina by Carmen Agra Deedy
Our Incredible Library Book : and the wonderful journeys it took by Caroline Crowe
The Aquanaut: a graphic novel by Dan Santat
The Big Sting by Rachelle Delaney
Bound for Home by Meika Hashimoto
The Cursed Moon by Angela Cervantes
Finally Seen by Kelly Yang
The Girl Who Built a Spider by George Brewington
The Grip by Marcus Stroman
Manatee Summer by Evan Griffith
Home Away From Home by Cynthia Lord
Race to Fire Mountain by Remi Blackwood
Penny Draws a Best Friend by Sara Shepard
The Shelterlings by Sarah Beth Durst
Treasure in the Lake by Jason Pamment
The Ultimate Goal by Tommy Greenwald
When Sea Becomes Sky by Gillian Mc Dunn
Adrift by Tanya Guerrero
Fake by Ele Fountain
Falling Short by Ernesto Cisneros
The Girl in White by Lindsay Currie
Hear Me by Kerry O'Malley
How to Stay Invisible by Maggie Rudd
Kelcie Murphy and the Academy for the Unbreakable Arts by Erika Lewis
The Mystery of the Radcliffe Riddle by Taryn Souders
New Dragon City by Mari Mancusi
Over and Out by Jenni L. Walsh
Ride On by Faith Erin Hicks
Roll for Initiative by Jaime Formato
The Ruby Code by Jessica Khoury
The Superteacher Project by Gordon Kormon
A Work in Progress by Jarrett Lerner
Florida Teens Read 2024-2025 Grades 9-12
The Florida Teens Read (FTR) program is a student- choice reading award program to determine which YA book wins the annual award as the favorite of teens in Florida. The reading list is comprised of fifteen titles that have been chosen by a committee of fourteen school librarians specifically to engage high school students (grades 9 through 12) in reading and reflect their interests as well as represent a variety of genres, formats, reading levels, viewpoints, and ethnic and cultural perspectives.
Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives it Changed by Dashka Slater
Breathe and Count Back from Ten by Natalia Sylvester
Chaos Theory by Nic Stone
Dear Medusa by Olivia A. Cole
The Do-Over by Lynn Painter
The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones
Four for the Road by K. J. Reilly
In Nightfall by Suzanne Young
Midnight at the Houdini by Delilah S. Dawson
The Name She Gave Me by Betty Culley
Promise Boys by Nick Brooks
Queen Bee by Dorothea Benton Frank
Remember Me Gone by Stacy Stokes
Seven Percent of Ro Devereux by Ellen O' Clover
You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron