Primary Level: The Shark God by Rafe Martin
	Intermediate Level:   Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
	Middle School/Junior High Level:   Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz

Teachers and library media specialists are encouraged to solicit nominations from their students for next year's award.  Nominations should be sent by May 15th to my school e-mail address: blahnik@sturbay.k12.wi.us or faxed to 920-746-3885.

Titles nominated must have been published in the past 5 years.  Send only the top 5 nominations in a school and include the number of students nominating each of those 5 titles.  For more information on the Golden Archer Award, see www.wemaonline.org/cm.archer.cfm

May 15th is the deadline for nominations. Since the Wisconsin Educational Media Association (WEMA) took over sponsorship of the award in 1996, we have tried several timelines for nominating and for voting.  The May 15th one seems to work best.  By announcing the list of nominees in the spring (shortly after the May 15 deadline), it is hoped that teachers and librarians will be able to order the necessary books and "hit the ground running" when school opens in the fall.  They have six months  to promote the titles and have the students read them before voting and sending in their results by the March 15th deadline.  Winners are announced at the WEMA Spring Conference in early April. 

For more information please contact Carol Neuser, Golden Archer Committee, at gncat@vbe.com.

Please pass this information along to anyone you may think might participate.

Thank You,
Mary Ann Blahnik, Librarian
T.J. Walker Middle School
Sturgeon Bay, WI
(member of WEMA Golden Archer Committee...and vote counter)