Thank you to all the dedicated high school teachers who entered to win a class set of books from the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Through their entries, our winners demonstrated a love of teaching and thoughtful ideas for how these new books will be incorporated into their curriculum. It is with great excitement that we announce this year’s winners, along with the books they have selected! Here is the full list of winners.

• Karlee Cysewski, Ririe High School, Ririe, ID , The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• Heather Marr, Boise High School, Boise, ID, Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
• Katie McNew, Barbara Ingram School for the Arts, Hagerstown, MD, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
• Anna Russell, Central Visual and Performing Arts High School, St. Louis, MO, Maus by Art Spiegelman
• Sherry Franklin, West Town Academy, Chicago, IL, My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
• McKinsey Souders, South Hagerstown High School, Hagerstown MD, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Marianne Fitzgerald, Severna Park High School, Severna Park, MD, Negotiating with the Dead by Margaret Atwood
• Traci Rogers, JEB Stuart High School, Falls Church, VA, Between Man and Beast by Monte Reel
• Vanessa Rasmussen, Vineland Senior High School, Vineland, NJ , Mr g by Alan Lightman
• Rahsheda Smith, Medgar Evers College Preparatory School, Brooklyn, NY, I Wish I’d Been There: Twenty Historians Bring to Life the Dramatic Events That Changed America Edited by Byron Hollinshead
• Heather Tanner, Latta High School,  Latta, SC,  Maus by Art Spiegelman
• Tracy Lord, Frankfort High School, Ridgeley, WV, Grendel by John Gardner
• Kim Baker, Salem High School, Virginia Beach, VA, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder, Lawrence Weschler
• Rebecca Swingle, Western Wayne High School, Lake Ariel, PA, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• Madelaine Kingsbury, Overbrook High School, Philadelphia, PA, The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Susan Murphy, Oneonta High School, Oneonta,  NY, Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Elissa Goldstein, Queens High School for the Sciences, Queens, NY, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories Edited by Tobias Wolff
• Larrah Feliciano, Monteray Trail High School, Elk Grove, CA , Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte