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2025 ORCA Nominees, all divisions
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PDFs of Past Winners:
Past Elementary Winners
Past Middle School Winners
Past High School Winners
What is the ORCA?
The Oregon Reader's Choice Award was founded in 2010. The award is intended to be a fun and exciting way for Oregon youth in grades 3-12 to become enthusiastic and discriminating readers. During the course of the school year, Oregon students choose their favorite book in a real-life democratic process.
How are the books chosen?
Books must be nominated for inclusion on the ORCA ballot. In order to be considered, the book needs to have a copyright date of two years prior to when the ballots are announced. This delay ensures that the title will be readily available in paperback during the voting year. Oregon students, teachers, and librarians are all able to nominate books. The nominations are reviewed by a committee of librarians and educators. The committee creates the final ballots based upon a number of criteria, including literary quality, creativity, reading enjoyment, reading level, and regional interest.
Who may vote?
Oregon students in grades 3-12. To qualify for voting, the person must have read, or listened to, at least 2 books in one of the divisions.
When does voting take place?
Voting occurs annually between March and April of each year. See below for more voting details and deadlines for 2025.
Ready to send in votes? Here's how:
To be eligible to vote for their favorite ORCA book, students must have read (or listened to) at least TWO of the nominated titles in their grade level division.
- Each reader is entitled to ONE vote. PDF ballots are linked below, or feel free to create your own.
- School librarians, public librarians, and/or teachers will tally votes, and then enter the total voting tallies for their building using the Total ORCA Votes Google Form. This form will be available in March 2025. (Students do not enter their votes online.)
- Submit tally forms in April 2025.
- The winning titles will be announced at the OLA Conference in April 2025.
Questions? Please contact the ORCA Committee at [email protected]
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