By Claudia Loucks
Geneseo Current
Forty-eight students at Geneseo Middle School qualified for the 2025 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award Program, by reading and responding to at least vice of this year’s reading list.
The program is sponsored by the Association of Illinois School Library Educators.
The group chose their favorite book for the year, “Charlie Thorne: The Last Equation. All students’ votes will be forwarded to the state level.
Jeanne Brucher is Geneseo Middle School and Geneseo High School Librarian.
Geneseo Middle School sixth grade readers who qualified for the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award program are, in font, from left, Nyali Bernier, Amelia Anderson, Makayla Edlefson, Emmett Cunningham; in BACK, Aaliyah Alvarado, Scarlett Heller, Ava Armstrong, Hadley Wyffels, Charley Spindel, Ethan Logsdon, Sully Jackson, and Kieran George. Robin Dwyer, Zackary Hancock and Matthew Werling also qualified for the program, but were absent when the photo was taken.
GMS Middle School seventh graders who qualified for the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award program are, in font, from left, Lilly VanOpdorp, Hailey Olson, Cameron Doyle, Kieran Efflandt, Delia Bellagamba, Olivia Krause; and in back, Lilith Ballard, Rykken Schweitzer, Henry Woodward, Tatus Eiselstein, Eliana Charlet, Brooklyn Williams and Rosella Wentz. Penelope Aukee also qualified for the program, but was absent for the photo.
The eighth graders at GMS who qualified for the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award program, are, in front from left, Alec Woods, Kyle Everett, Landon French, Henry Pratt; in the second row, Madison Kuethe, Mia O’Dell, Paisley Arnold, Emma Minnaert, Tad Moore, Ethan Temperley, Lucy Walck, Jocelyn Russelburg, Charley Campbell, Eleanor George and Maci Gorman. Cooper Hudson, Ellie Jackson and Ashlyn Werthmann also qualified for the program, but were absent for the photo.