Here are Winners of the 2024 JPS Reading Fair

March 27, 2024

Smiling from ear to ear holding golden trophies and medals, dozens of first, second and third-graders received awards at the annual District Reading Fair Competition on Friday, March 8, 2024, at Cardozo Middle School.

Many scholars wore costumes depicting their favorite book character as Jackson Public Schools ended Read Across America Week celebrations.

The purpose of the District's reading fairs is to provide scholars in grades K-12 with the opportunity to share their favorite book through a storyboard or multimedia display. The goal of the Reading Fair is to enhance and encourage reading at all grade levels and to allow students to collaborate with their peers. As students develop their reading fair projects, they connect to the Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for each grade level.

There are two levels of Reading Fair competition in JPS: Level 1 – School and Level 2 – District. The first place winner from each category at the school level is invited to participate in the District level competition.

Congratulations to all winners of the 2024 Reading Fair Competition!

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Division A	3rd	Lemore Windom Hill	The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Lake
	2nd	Karre’ Bolden	The Little House	Oak Forest
	1st	Jayln Hughes	The Rainbow Fish	Obama Magnet
Division B	3rd	Jayce Banks	Crayon Box That Talked	Galloway
	2nd	Nadia Smith	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs	Spann
	1st	Skylar Mitchell	Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentine	Walton
Division C	3rd	Jordan Bell	Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride	North Jackson
	2nd	Jazmine Collins	Gary's Blooming Business	McLeod
	1st	Cranecia Norals	Terry and the Caterpillar	Lake
Division D	3rd	Arielle Vance	The Gold Cadillac	Wells APAC
	2nd	Dorothy Fyke	The Secret Zoo	McWillie
	1st	Savanna Williams	I, Amber Brown	Obama Magnet
Division E SB	3rd	Kelsey Frazier	The Color Purple	Northwest
	2nd	Keyaundrea Moore	A Long Walk to Water	Chastain
	1st	Billy Terrell	I Survived Hurricane Katrina	Kirksey
Division E DM	3rd	Derian Franklin	Long Way Down	Cardozo
	2nd	Jerriah Dyer	Miles Morales Suspended	Northwest
	1st	Nazly Morales-Sanchez	Undercover Latina	Whitten
Division F SB	3rd	Sommer Liddell	The Hate U Give	Capital City
	2nd	De’Nahjae Trimble	Concrete Rose	Wingfield
	1st	Jordan Moncure	Off Season	Murrah
Division F DM	1st	Laila Seals	Black No More	Murrah
Division G	3rd	Savannah Cox	Beyonce: R & B Superstar	Timberlawn
	2nd	Caden Winford	Who is Michael Jordan	Clausell
	1st	DeMie Bennett	Misty Copeland	McLeod
Division H	3rd	Makail Pittman	A Biography of Malcolm X	Blackburn
	2nd	Jordan Moor	Stealing Home: The Story of Jackie Robinson	Chastain
	1st	Serenity Moore	Something to Prove	Bailey APAC
Division H DM	2nd	Arianna Taylor-Hopson	Trapped in Space: the Story of Apollo 13	Chastain
	1st	Brooklyn Lipsey	Hidden Figures	Northwest
Division I DM	1st	Demarcus Littleton	Coming of Age in Mississippi	Capital City
Division J	3rd	Riley Harper, Jayani Brown, David Crudup	The Lemonade War	McLeod
	2nd	Tramaine Davis, Titan Davis	Henry’s Freedom Box	Obama Magnet
	1st	Gabriel McLaughlin, Emily Gordon, Kennedi Winn	The Light She Feels Inside	Mother Goose
Division K SB	3rd	Zakai Coleman, Quaddrion Herron, Jeremiah Love	The Legend of Gravity	Peeples
	2nd	Suzie Tyler, Allison Lopez-Hernandez, Daveyanna Bell	The Clean Getaway	Whitten
	1st	Zion Boyd, Asia Harrison	The Color Purple	Northwest
Division K DM	2nd	Paige Parker, Chloe Jackson	The Outsiders	Bailey APAC
	1st	Khylan Johnson, Marshall Smith	To Kill a Mockingbird	Northwest
Division L DM Division L SB	1st 1st	Aniya Poindexter, Aniya Stalling Cherish Burton, Robert Mays	The Dark Crowns Gone Girl	Murrah Murrah
Division M	3rd	Da’Niya Randall, Harmony Thomas	Who Was Ida B. Wells	Obama Magnet
	2nd	Reya Hunter, Karlee Watson	Rosa Parks	Wells APAC
	1st	Arthur Broadway, Anthony Ramsey, Ki’erickah Hardy	What is Hip Hop	McLeod

Additional coverage: JPS DISTRICT READING FAIR