About the Sequoyah Book Award

With this award, Oklahoma honors the Native American leader Sequoyah, for his unique achievement in creating the Cherokee syllabary. Sequoyah chose eighty-five symbols to represent all spoken sounds of the Cherokee language. In so doing, he created a way to preserve his people’s language and culture.

Honoring the The Sequoyah Book Award at Angie Debo

• Voting for the current Sequoyah Masterlist opens February 1st and closes March 15th!

• Winner of the current Sequoyah Masterlist is revealed on or before March 31st.

• Students in grades 3 through 5 must read or listen to 3 or more titles and answer a few questions about each book to vote.

• Students in grades 3 through 5 that read or listen to 5 or more titles and answer a few questions about each book get to vote AND attend a pizza party! 

• Because of the Rabbit by Cynthia Lord

• Birdie by Eileen Spinelli

• Changeling by William Ritter

• A Green Place to Be: The Creation of Central Park by Ashley Benham Yazdani

• Lety Out Loud by Angela Cervantes

• The Light Jar by Lisa Thompson

• Meena Meets Her Match by Karla Manternach

• A Monster Like Me by Wendy S. Swore

• One-Third Nerd by Gennifer Choldenko

• The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart

• Rescuing Rialto: A Baby Sea Otter’s Story by Lynda V. Mapes

• Roll with It by Jaime Sumner

• Saving Fable by Scott Reintgen

• Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly

• Stargazing by Jen Wang