By Claudia Loucks
Geneseo Current
Seventh grader Amelia Anderson and eighth grader Rykken Schweitzer are two of the students who read all 20 books on this year's list. Braxton Sells and Robin Dwyer also read all 20, but are not in the photo.
Forty-one students at Geneseo Middle School qualified for the 2026 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award Program, by reading and responding to at least five of this year’s reading list.
Eighth grade readers include Delia Bellagamba, Olivia Krause and Penelope Aukee. Contributed Photos
The program is sponsored by the Association of Illinois School Library Educators.
Jeanne Brucher is Geneseo Middle School and Geneseo High School Librarian.