Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award - Grades 6-8

Awards List

2016

A Wish in the Woods
(Nominee)
Beth Bracken; Kay Fraser

Storm Watcher
(Nominee)
Maria V. Snyder

Code Name 711
(Nominee)
F.T. Bradley

Threatened
(Nominee)
Eliot Schrefer

Zane and the Hurricane
(Nominee)
Rodman Philbrick

The Crossover
(Nominee)
Kwame Alexander

Allagash
(Nominee)
Cathie Pelletier

The Summer I Saved the World . . . in 65 Days
(Nominee)
Michele Weber Hurwitz

The Night Gardener
(Nominee)
Jonathan Auxier

The Castle Behind Thorns
(Nominee)
Merrie Haskell

Death by Toilet Paper
(Nominee)
Donna Gephart

The Fourteenth Goldfish
(Nominee)
Jennifer L. Holm

Greenglass House
(Nominee)
Kate Milford

2015

Prisoner B-3087
(Winner)
Alan M. Gratz

One for the Murphys
(Nominee)
Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Ungifted
(Nominee)
Gordon Korman

One Came Home
(Nominee)
Amy Timberlake

Road Trip
(Nominee)
Gary Paulsen

The Water Castle
(Nominee)
Megan Frazer Blakemore

Force Out
(Nominee)
Tim Green

Prisoner B-3087
(Nominee)
Alan M. Gratz

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
(Nominee)
Chris Grabenstein

Counting by 7s
(Nominee)
Holly Goldberg Sloan

Ghost Hawk
(Nominee)
Susan Cooper

Wake Up Missing
(Nominee)
Kate Messner

2014

Chomp
(Winner)
Carl Hiaasen

Saving Zasha
(Nominee)
Randi Barrow

Real Hoops
(Nominee)
Fred Bowen

Inside Out and Back Again
(Nominee)
Thanhha Lai

Dead End in Norvelt
(Nominee)
Jack Gantos

The Unwanteds
(Nominee)
Lisa McMann

The Amazing Adventures of John Smith, JR. Aka Houdini
(Nominee)
Peter Johnson

The Lions of Little Rock
(Nominee)
Kristin Levine

The False Prince
(Nominee)
Jennifer A. Nielsen

Capture the Flag
(Nominee)
Kate Messner

Cardboard
(Nominee)
Doug TenNapel

2013

Out of My Mind
(Winner)
Sharon M. Draper

Powerless
(Nominee)
Matthew Cody

The Seventh Level
(Nominee)
Jody Feldman

Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation
(Nominee)
Matt Myklusch

The Limit
(Nominee)
Kristen Landon

The Candymakers
(Nominee)
Wendy Mass

A Long Walk to Water
(Nominee)
Linda Sue Park

The Pirate Captain's Daughter
(Nominee)
Eve Bunting

Storm Runners
(Nominee)
Roland Smith

Planet Middle School
(Nominee)
Nikki Grimes

2012

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

2011

The Name of this Book Is Secret
(Winner)
Pseudonymous Bosch

Snatched
(Nominee)
Pete Hautman

Peak
(Nominee)
Roland Smith

The Wednesday Wars
(Nominee)
Gary D. Schmidt

The Boy Who Dared
(Nominee)
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Gods of Manhattan
(Nominee)
Scott Mebus

March Toward the Thunder
(Nominee)
Joseph Bruchac

Savvy
(Nominee)
Ingrid Law

Peace, Locomotion
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

Skeleton Creek
(Nominee)
Patrick Carman

Amaranth
(Nominee)
Julie Berry

When You Reach Me
(Nominee)
Rebecca Stead

2010

Found
(Winner)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Notes from the Midnight Driver
(Nominee)
Jordan Sonnenblick

The Curse of the Wendigo: An Agate and Buck Adventure
(Nominee)
Scott R. Welvaert

Schooled
(Nominee)
Gordon Korman

Chains
(Nominee)
Laurie Halse Anderson

Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Almost True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka
(Nominee)
Jon Scieszka

Into the Volcano
(Nominee)
Audrey Wood

2009

Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie
(Winner)
Jordan Sonnenblick

So B. It
(Nominee)
Sarah Weeks

Heat
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

Blood on the River: James Town, 1607
(Nominee)
Elisa Carbone

The Lighthouse Land
(Nominee)
Adrian McKinty

The Mysterious Benedict Society
(Nominee)
Trenton Lee Stewart

Deep and Dark and Dangerous
(Nominee)
Mary Downing Hahn

Cracker!
(Nominee)
Cynthia Kadohata

2008

The Lightning Thief
(Winner)
Rick Riordan

Worth
(Nominee)
A. La Faye

Travel Team
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
(Nominee)
E.L. Konigsburg

Gossamer
(Nominee)
Lois Lowry

Peter and the Shadow Thieves
(Nominee)
Ridley Pearson; Dave Barry

Double Identity
(Nominee)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

2007

Al Capone Does My Shirts
(Nominee)
Gennifer Choldenko

Airborn
(Nominee)
Kenneth Oppel

The House on the Gulf
(Nominee)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Chasing the Falconers
(Nominee)
Gordon Korman

The Fairy-Tale Detectives
(Nominee)
Michael Buckley

Flush
(Nominee)
Carl Hiaasen

2006

Gregor the Overlander
(Winner)
Suzanne Collins

The Boy Who Spoke Dog
(Nominee)
Clay Morgan
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Double Dutch
(Nominee)
Sharon M. Draper

Locomotion
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

Chasing Vermeer
(Nominee)
Blue Balliett

2005

Eragon
(Winner)
Christopher Paolini

Doing Time Online
(Nominee)
Jan Siebold

Because of Anya
(Nominee)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

The City of Ember
(Nominee)
Jeanne Duprau

Tulsa Burning
(Nominee)
Anna Myers

2004

Hoot
(Winner)
Carl Hiaasen

Rowan Hood, Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest
(Nominee)
Nancy Springer

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
(Nominee)
Ann Brashares

Three Days
(Nominee)
Donna Jo Napoli

Crispin: The Cross of Lead
(Nominee)
Avi

Goose Chase
(Nominee)
Patrice Kindl

2003

The Two Princesses of Bamarre
(Winner)
Gail Carson Levine

2002

Among the Hidden
(Winner)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

2001

Bud, Not Buddy
(Winner)
Christopher Paul Curtis

Bat 6
(Nominee)
Virginia Euwer Wolff

The Wreckers
(Nominee)
Iain Lawrence

A Long Way from Chicago
(Nominee)
Richard Peck

The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn
(Nominee)
Dorothy Hoobler; Thomas Hoobler

2000

Holes
(Winner)
Louis Sachar

1999

Crash
(Winner)
Jerry Spinelli

1993

Shiloh
(Winner)
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

1992

Maniac Magee
(Winner)
Jerry Spinelli

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