2024-2025

Mark Twain Club is a voluntary reading program for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students at Lawson. This club encourages and recognizes students who go beyond their required classwork by reading Mark Twain Reader Award nominated books.

Every year since 1971, Mark Twain Reader Award books are nominated by Missouri students and librarians. These books aren’t by or about Missouri author Mark Twain, but they are up for an award named in honor of him. All Missouri students who read at least 4 of this year’s titles can vote for their favorite in the spring through their librarian.

Lawson students who want to be in the Mark Twain Club read current and/or previous nominees from the specific book list. This list can be found on the Lawson website in the Library Media tab under Mark Twain Club. https://www.jcschools.us/marktwainclub

Students can get these books from our school library, our public library Missouri River Regional Library, from their classroom library, or if they have their own copy. Where they come from doesn’t matter, reading/listening to them is the key!

After reading a book from the Mark Twain Nominee list, students will enter this book title on the “24/25 Mark Twain Club entry form” in their Google Classroom Classwork under the Library topic to alert me that they have finished a Mark Twain nominee book. 

Mark Twain Club students are recognized as they reach three different levels. They earn a small prize and have their name read during daily announcements for each level achieved. JV Readers have read 5 books.  Varsity Readers have read 10 books. The top level is the Reading Hall of Fame, in which students have read at least 15 Mark Twain nominees and earn an ice cream/pizza party later in May. 

Mark Twain Nominee List 1971-2023

Sincerely,

Mrs. McDonald

Lawson Library Media Specialist