With this award, Oklahoma honors the
Native American leader Sequoyah, for his unique achievement in
creating the Cherokee syllabary. Sequoyah chose eighty-five symbols
to represent all spoken sounds of the Cherokee language. In so
doing, he created a way to preserve his people's language and
culture.
Each Sequoyah Masterlist is chosen by a
committee of librarians from public and school libraries. The
students in the state of Oklahoma read at least 3 books from their
respective list and vote on their favorite book to chose the winner.
Students can vote at their school or a public library in March. For
more information about the Oklahoma Sequoyah Award, visit the
Oklahoma Library Association's webpage about the award at http://oklibs.org/modx/Organization/Committees/Sequoyah.htm.
Please Note: The books on the Sequoyah
Masterlists are not intended to be an automatic recommendation of
the books.It is not the intention of the committees that every
student must read every book on a masterlist.
2011 Children's Sequoyah Masterlist (grades
3-5)
2011 Intermediate Sequoyah Masterlist (grades
6-8)
2011 High School Sequoyah Masterlist (grades
9-12)
