Each year the Virginia State Reading Association (VSRA) selects several books at the Primary, Elementary, Middle, and High School levels as part of their Virginia Readers' Choice program (formally known as the Virginia Young Readers program). During the school year students read the books listed for their levels and early in the spring vote for their favorite book.  These votes from across the state are tabulated to identify the top books in each category. Here is a list of the past winners.

Henderson students participate in this program each year.

The books selected for the 2008-09 school year are:

PRIMARY:

• Bad Boys Get Cookie! – Margie Palatini
• Duck At The Door – Jackie Urbanovic
• The Great Fuzz Frenzy – Janet Stevens
• I Saw An Ant On The Railroad Track – Joshua Prince
• Library Lion – Michelle Knudsen
• Little Lost Bat – Sandra Markle
• Mammoths On The Move – Lisa Wheeler
• Once I Ate A Pie – Patricia MacLachlan
• Stars Beneath Your Bed: The Surprising Story of Dust – April Pulley Sayre
• Wolves – Emily Gravett

• Clementine – Sara Pennypacker
• Counting On Grace – Elizabeth Winthrop
• Erupts! – Frances O'Roark Dowell
• The Ghost's Grave – Peg Kehret
• Henry's Freedom Box – Eleen Levine
• The Homework Machine – Dan Gutman
• Owen & Mzee: The True Story Of A Remarkable Friendship – Isabella Hatkoff
• Punished! – David Lubar
• Rules – Cynthia Lord
• The Winner's Walk – Nancy Ruth Patterson