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The Rebecca Caudill Young Readers'
Book
Award
2008
Nominees
Adam Canfield of the Slash by Michael Winerip
Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War
Two
by Joseph Bruchac
Crooked River by Shelley Pearsall
Defiance by Valerie Hobbs
Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie by Jordan
Sonnenblick
East by Edith Pattou
Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate
DiCamillo
The Misadventures of Maude March, or, Trouble Rides a Fast
Horse
by Audrey Couloumbis
MVP*: *Magellan Voyage Project by Douglas Evans
The Old Willis Place: A Ghost Story by Mary
Downing Hahn
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two
Rabbits, and a Very
Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan
Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach
The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman
Thunder from the Sea by Joan Hiatt Harlow
Worth by A. LaFaye
Yankee Girl by Mary Ann Rodman
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Past
Winners
2007 - So B. It by Sarah
Weeks
2006 - Eragon by Christopher
Paolini
2005 - Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
2004 - Stormbreaker by Anthony
Horowitz
2003 - Fever 1793 by Laurie
Halse Anderson
2002 - Holes by Louis Sachar
2001 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone by J.K. Rowling
2000 - Ella Enchanted by Gail
Carson Levine
1999 - Frindle by Andrew
Clements
1998 - Mick Harte Was Here by
Barbara Park
1997 - The Best School Year Ever
by Barbara Robinson
1996 - The Giver by Lois Lowry
1995 - Flight #116 is Down by
Caroline Cooney
1994 - Shiloh by Phyllis
Reynolds Naylor
1993 - Maniac Magee by Jerry
Spinelli
1992 - Number the Stars by Lois
Lowry
1991 - Matilda by Roald Dahl
1990 - Wait Till Helen Comes by
Mary Downing Hahn
1989 - The Dollhouse Murders by
Betty Ren Wright
1988 - Indian in the Cupboard
by Lynne Reid Banks
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What is the Award?
The Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award was developed to
encourage children and young adults to read for personal
satisfaction. It is an Illinois award for outstanding literature for
young people and is sponsored by the
Illinois Reading
Council, the
Illinois School Library Media
Association, and the
Illinois Association of Teachers
of English.
- Books are nominated by children in grades 4-8.
- A master list of 20 titles is sent to participating elementary
and middle schools.
- Students read the books on the list and vote for their
favorites each February.
- Votes are sent to the award committee, which compiles the
final tally.
- The winning title is announced in March.
- Postcards announcing the winner are mailed to each
participating school or library.
- A plaque is given to the author of the winning book.
- Public libraries may sponsor the program if the schools in the
area choose not to do so.
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