2012 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award

Awards List

Grades 3-6

The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity
(Nominee)
Mac Barnett

Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook
(Nominee)
Eleanor Davis

Drizzle
(Nominee)
Kathleen Van Cleve

Roberto & Me
(Nominee)
Dan Gutman

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
(Nominee)
Tom Angleberger

Touch Blue
(Nominee)
Cynthia Lord

The Call
(Nominee)
Michael Grant

A Tale Dark and Grimm
(Nominee)
Adam Gidwitz

Grades 6-8

The Red Pyramid
(Winner)
Rick Riordan

Uprising
(Nominee)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Graveyard Book
(Nominee)
Neil Gaiman

My Life in Pink & Green
(Nominee)
Lisa Greenwald

The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.
(Nominee)
Kate Messner

Operation Yes
(Nominee)
Sara Lewis Holmes

School of Fear
(Nominee)
Gitty Daneshvari

The Mysterious Howling
(Nominee)
Maryrose Wood

The Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang
(Nominee)
Amy Ignatow

Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer
(Nominee)
John Grisham

The Clockwork Three
(Nominee)
Matthew J. Kirby

On the Blue Comet
(Nominee)
Rosemary Wells

Hero
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

Grades K-3

Shark vs. Train
(Winner)
Chris Barton

Ron's Big Mission
(Nominee)
Rose Blue; Corinne J. Naden

Redwoods
(Nominee)
Jason Chin

Dessert First
(Nominee)
Hallie Durand

Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel
(Nominee)
Nikki Grimes

The Mount Rushmore Calamity
(Nominee)
Jeff Brown

Horace and Morris Say Cheese
(Nominee)
James Howe

No More Teasing
(Nominee)
Fran Manushkin

Spot the Plot: A Riddle Book of Book Riddles
(Nominee)
J. Patrick Lewis

Zig and Wikki in Something Ate My Homework
(Nominee)
Nadja Spiegelman

Here Comes the Garbage Barge!
(Nominee)
Jonah Winter

Pandas' Earthquake Escape
(Nominee)
Phyllis J. Perry

Let's Do Nothing!
(Nominee)
Tony Fucile

Dino-Baseball
(Nominee)
Lisa Wheeler

Young Adult

Matched
(Winner)
Ally Condie

Flash Burnout
(Nominee)
L.K. Madigan

The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin
(Nominee)
Josh Berk

The Sky is Everywhere
(Nominee)
Jandy Nelson

Three Rivers Rising
(Nominee)
Jame Richards

Ship Breaker
(Nominee)
Paolo Bacigalupi

The Secret to Lying
(Nominee)
Todd Mitchell

Take Me There
(Nominee)
Carolee Dean

Black Hole Sun
(Nominee)
David MacInnis Gill

Rot & Ruin
(Nominee)
Jonathan Maberry

You
(Nominee)
Charles Benoit

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
(Nominee)
Rachel Cohn; David Levithan

Virals
(Nominee)
Kathy Reichs; Brendan Reichs

Award Categories

Grades 3-5

Grades 3-6

Grades 3-8

Grades 6-8

Grades K-3

Young Adult

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