Morning Calm Medal
The Morning Calm Medal is a book award that's voted on annually by international school students in Korea.
Students can vote in 3 categories: Elementary Chapter Books, Middle School Books, and High School Books
To participate in choosing the next Morning Calm Medal winners:
Vote for your favorite book by April 15, 2017!
Students can vote in 3 categories: Elementary Chapter Books, Middle School Books, and High School Books
To participate in choosing the next Morning Calm Medal winners:
- Choose a category.
- Read 4 out of the 5 books in that category.
- Vote!
Vote for your favorite book by April 15, 2017!
Elementary Chapter Books
Morning Calm Medal Nominees 2016-17 - Elementary Chapter Books
(AR level: 4.5, AR points: 4, Lexile: 620)
Summary from Goodreads:
Miles Murphy is not happy to be moving to Yawnee Valley, a sleepy town that’s famous for one thing and one thing only: cows. In his old school, everyone knew him as the t...
(AR level: 4.8, AR points: 4, Lexile: 700)
Summary from Goodreads:
Nobody likes Jacques Papier besides his sister; when he comes across a cowgirl at the park and she informs him that he's an imaginary friend, just like her, Jacques’s wor...
(AR level: 3.9, AR points: 3, Lexile: 580)
Summary from Goodreads:
When the new kid joins his class, Woodrow agrees with his schoolmates--Toulouse is really weird. He's short - kindergarten short - dresses in a suit like a grandpa, has h...
(AR level: 3.9, AR points: 6, Lexile: 570)
Summary from Goodreads:
Although Mitsi Kashino and her family are swept up in the wave of anti-Japanese sentiment following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Mitsi never expects to lose her home -- or...
(AR level: 5.2, AR points: 10, Lexile: 730)
When Jax wakes up to a world without any people in it, he assumes it's the zombie apocalypse. But when he runs into his eighteen-year-old guardian, Riley Pendare, he learns that he's really in ...
Middle School Books
Morning Calm Medal Nominees 2016-17 - Middle School Books
(AR level: 4.8, AR points: 4, Lexile: 680)
A cat sneaks into a small Palestinian house on the West Bank that has been commandeered by two Israeli soldiers. The house seems empty, until the cat realizes that a little boy is hiding beneath...
(AR level: 6.2, AR points: 10, Lexile: 870)
Summary from Goodreads:
The once highly in-demand detective Alan Knightley has just woken up after an unexplained incident kept him asleep for four years. While he was out cold, his son, Darkus...
(AR level: 3.7, AR points: 7, Lexile: 550)
Summary from Goodreads:
Ally has been smart enough to fool a lot of smart people. Every time she lands in a new school, she is able to hide her inability to read by creating clever yet disruptiv...
(AR level: 4.9, AR points: 13, Lexile: 680)
Summary from Goodreads:
Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a ...
(AR level: 3.1, AR points: 2, Lexile: 350, Graphic novel)
Summary from Goodreads:
Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. As sidekick and supervillain...
High School Books
Morning Calm Medal Nominees 2016-17 - High School Books
(No AR level, Lexile: 720)
Summary from Goodreads:
Set in present-day Afghanistan, this is the story of two teenagers, one Pashtun and one Hazara, who must fight against their culture, their tradition, their families, and the Taliban to...
(AR level: 5.6, AR points: 21, Lexile: 810)
Summary from Goodreads:
History has a way of repeating itself. In the Sunken City that was once Paris, all who oppose the new revolution are being put to the blade. Except for those who disappe...
(No AR level or Lexile measure)
Summary from Goodreads:
This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the bar...
(AR level: 4.5, AR points: 10, Lexile: 560)
Summary from Goodreads:
Winter, 1945. Four teenagers. Four secrets. Each one born of a different homeland; each one hunted, and haunted, by tragedy, lies…and war. As thousands of desperate refu...
(AR level: 5.4, AR points: 16, Lexile: 680)
Summary from Goodreads:
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kill...