Each year the Virginia State Reading Association (VSRA) selects several books at the Primary, Elementary, Middle School, and High School levels as part of their Virginia Young Readers program. During the school year students read the books listed for their levels and early in the Spring vote for their favorite book.  These votes from across the state are tabulated to identify the top books in each category. Here is a list of the past winners.

Henderson students participate in this program each year. Reading Specialist Gina Cory conducts the program.

The books selected for the 2005-2006 school year are:

PRIMARY:

• Actual Size - by Steve Jenkins
• Baghead - by Jarrett Jrosoczka
• How Groundhog’s Garden Grew - by Lynne Cherry
• Hungry Hen - by Richard Waring
• Jam and Jelly by Holly and Nellie - by Gloria Whelan
• The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman - by Darcy Pattison
• Little Flower - by Gloria Rand
• The Monster Who Ate My Peas - by Danny Schnitzlein
• Muldoon - by Pamela Duncan Edwards
• Straight to the Pole - by Kevin O’Malley

• Boxes for Katje - by Candace Fleming
• Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia - by Barbara O’Connor
• Gregor the Overlander - by Suzanne Collins
• Grover G. Graham and Me - by Mary Quattlebaum
• Hana’s Suitcase - by Karen Levine
• Kensuke’s Kingdom - by Michael Morpurgo
• Locomotion - by Jacqueline Woodson
• Mysterious Matter of I.M. Fine - by Diane Stanley
• Say What? - by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Snowed in With Grandmother Silk - by Carol Fenner