Leslie Preddy

Leslie Preddy has been the school librarian at Perry Meridian Middle School in Indianapolis, Indiana since 1992. She is a past recipient of AASL’s Collaborative School Library Media Award and School Library Media Program of the Year. She is a past president for the Association for Indiana Media Educators (AIME), a past general chair of the state’s Young Hoosier Book Award (YHBA) program, and recipient of AIME’s prestigious Peggy L. Pfeiffer Service Award. She is a former MSD of Perry Township Teacher of the year and a 2010 Finalist for Indiana State Teacher of the Year. She speaks at the state, local and national level and conferences, workshops, and education training centers. She has published a variety of articles in professional journals and co-created online resources and has served as an adjunct professor for Indiana University, Indiana State University and IUPUI. Her book, SSR with Intervention: A School Library Action Research Project (Libraries Unlimited 2007) was named one of the Best Professional Books of 2007 by Teacher Librarian and her book, Social Readers: Promoting Reading in the 21st Century (Libraries Unlimited 2010), was Highly Recommended by Library Media Connection.