Sasquatch Reading Award nominees:

In March, fourth and fifth grade students at Cougar Ridge join other students across the state of Washington, voting to choose their favorite book for the Sasquatch Award.

2008 nominees:

McKissack: Abby takes a stand

Harkrader: Airball

Dowell: Chicken boy

Hobbs: Defiance

Kehret: The ghost's grave

Fleischman: The giant rat of Sumatra

Colfer: The legend of Spud Murphy

Couloumbis: The misadventures of Maude March

Greene: Owen Foote, mighty scientist

Buckley: The sisters Grimm: book one, fairy-tale detectives

Gorman: Stumptown kid

Armstrong: Whittington

Previous winners:

2007 : Birney: The world according to Humphrey

2006 : DuPrau, Jeanne: City of Ember

2005 : Spinelli, Jerry: Loser

2004 :Colville: The monsters of Morley manor

 2003 :Di Camillo:  Because of Winn-Dixie