Young Reader's Choice Award - Children's

Awards List

1989

Wait Till Helen Comes
(Winner)
Mary Downing Hahn

1988

Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You
(Winner)
Barthe DeClements

1987

The War With Grandpa
(Winner)
Robert Kimmel Smith

1986

The Dollhouse Murders
(Winner)
Betty Ren Wright

1985

Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub
(Winner)
Jamie Gilson

1984

Indian in the Cupboard
(Winner)
Lynne Reid Banks
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1983

Superfudge
(Winner)
Judy Blume

1982

Bunnicula
(Winner)
James Howe

1981

Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood
(Winner)
Ellen Conford

1980

Ramona and Her Father
(Winner)
Beverly Cleary

1979

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
(Winner)
Mildred D. Taylor

1978

The Great Brain Does It Again
(Winner)
John D. Fitzgerald

1977

Blubber
(Winner)
Judy Blume

1976

The Great Brain Reforms
(Winner)
John D. Fitzgerald

1975

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
(Winner)
Judy Blume

1974

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH // The Secret of NIMH
(Winner)
Robert C. O'Brien
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1972

Encyclopedia Brown Keeps the Peace
(Winner)
Donald J. Sobol

1971

Ramona the Pest
(Winner)
Beverly Cleary
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1970

Smoke
(Winner)
William Corbin

1969

Henry Reed's Baby-Sitting Service
(Winner)
Keith Robertson

1968

The Mouse and the Motorcycle
(Winner)
Beverly Cleary

1967

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
(Winner)
Ian Fleming

1966

Rascal
(Winner)
Sterling North
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1964

Incredible Journey
(Winner)
Sheila Burnford

1963

Danny Dunn on the Ocean Floor
(Winner)
Jay Williams

1960

Henry and the Paper Route
(Winner)
Beverly Cleary

1959

Old Yeller
(Winner)
Fred Gipson

1957

Henry and Ribsy
(Winner)
Beverly Cleary
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1952

Sea Star: Orphan of Chincoteague
(Winner)
Marguerite Henry
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1951

King of the Wind
(Winner)
Marguerite Henry

1950

McElligot's Pool
(Winner)
Dr. Seuss

1948

The Black Stallion Returns
(Winner)
Walter Farley

1947

Homer Price
(Winner)
Robert McCloskey

1945

Snow Treasure
(Winner)
Marie McSwigan
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1944

The Black Stallion
(Winner)
Walter Farley

1943

Lassie Come Home
(Winner)
Eric Knight
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1942

By the Shores Of Silver Lake
(Winner)
Laura Ingalls Wilder

1941

Mr. Popper's Penguins
(Winner)
Richard Atwater
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1940

Paul Bunyan Swings His Axe
(Winner)
Dell J. McCormick

Award Categories

Children's

Grades 10-12

Grades 4-6

Grades 4-8

Grades 7-9

Grades 9-12

Intermediate/Grades 7-9

Junior/Grades 4-6

Senior/Grades 10-12

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