Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award Display The Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award Reading contest is a children’s choice book award.  Its purpose is to encourage recreational reading among school-aged children.  Maud Hart Lovelace was a Minnesota author who grew up in Mankato, Minnesota.  Each year since 1980, the year of her death, there has been a Minnesota reading contest for third through eighth graders.  A committee comprised of teachers and librarians selects the titles for the contest each spring and students read the books on the list during the following school year.  In March the students vote on their favorite book from the list.  On April 25, the anniversary of Maud’s birthday, the winner is announced. The 7th grade student and the 8th grade student who reads the most Lovelace books this year will receive a prize.

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