Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award - Grades 4-8

Awards List

2016

Camo Girl
(Nominee)
Kekla Magoon

Hidden
(Nominee)
Helen Frost

The Prisoner of Cell 25
(Nominee)
Richard Paul Evans

A Monster Calls
(Nominee)
Patrick Ness

Cinder
(Nominee)
Marissa Meyer

May B.
(Nominee)
Caroline Starr Rose

Chomp
(Nominee)
Carl Hiaasen

See You at Harry's
(Nominee)
Jo Knowles

Three Times Lucky
(Nominee)
Sheila Turnage

Shadow on the Mountain
(Nominee)
Margi Preus

Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin
(Nominee)
Liesl Shurtliff

This Journal Belongs to Ratchet
(Nominee)
Nancy Cavanaugh

The Rithmatist
(Nominee)
Brandon Sanderson

Golden Boy
(Nominee)
Tara Sullivan

Mountain Dog
(Nominee)
Margarita Engle

Counting by 7s
(Nominee)
Holly Goldberg Sloan

Will in Scarlet
(Nominee)
Matthew Cody

2015

Legend
(Winner)
Marie Lu

Slob
(Nominee)
Ellen Potter

The Clockwork Three
(Nominee)
Matthew J. Kirby

A Long Walk to Water
(Nominee)
Linda Sue Park

Saving Zasha
(Nominee)
Randi Barrow

Tuesdays at the Castle
(Nominee)
Jessica Day George

The One and Only Ivan
(Second Place)
Katherine Applegate

A Diamond in the Desert
(Nominee)
Kathryn Fitzmaurice

The False Prince
(Nominee)
Jennifer A. Nielsen

The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
(Nominee)
Joanne Rocklin

One for the Murphys
(Nominee)
Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Extra Credit
(Nominee)
Tommy Greenwald

Ungifted
(Nominee)
Gordon Korman

Almost Home
(Nominee)
Joan Bauer

Navigating Early
(Nominee)
Clare Vanderpool

Never Say Die
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

Unstoppable
(Third Place)
Tim Green

2014

Wonder
(Winner)
R.J. Palacio

The Hunt for the Seventh
(Nominee)
Christine Morton-Shaw

Boys Without Names
(Nominee)
Kashmira Sheth

Bamboo People
(Nominee)
Mitali Perkins

Mockingbird
(Nominee)
Kathryn Erskine

I, Emma Freke
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Atkinson

The Running Dream
(Second Place)
Wendelin Van Draanen

Ways to Live Forever
(Nominee)
Sally Nicholls

Words in the Dust
(Nominee)
Trent Reedy

Close to Famous
(Nominee)
Joan Bauer

Okay for Now
(Nominee)
Gary D. Schmidt

Ghetto Cowboy
(Nominee)
G. Neri

The Apothecary
(Nominee)
Maile Meloy

Breaking Stalin's Nose
(Nominee)
Eugene Yelchin

The Outcasts
(Nominee)
John Flanagan

The Lions of Little Rock
(Nominee)
Kristin Levine

A Tale Dark and Grimm
(Third Place)
Adam Gidwitz

2013

Smile
(Winner)
Raina Telgemeier

Bounce
(Nominee)
Natasha Friend

The Graveyard Book
(Nominee)
Neil Gaiman

Anything But Typical
(Nominee)
Nora Raleigh Baskin

Born to Fly
(Nominee)
Michael Ferrari

One Crazy Summer
(Nominee)
Rita Williams-Garcia

Out of My Mind
(Second Place)
Sharon M. Draper

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
(Nominee)
Tom Angleberger

How to Survive Middle School
(Nominee)
Donna Gephart

As Easy As Falling Off the Face of the Earth
(Nominee)
Lynne Rae Perkins

Dark Life
(Nominee)
Kat Falls

Fall Out
(Nominee)
Deborah Wiles

Shooting Kabul
(Nominee)
N.H. Senzai

Ninth Ward
(Nominee)
Jewell Parker Rhodes

Inside Out and Back Again
(Nominee)
Thanhha Lai

2012

Powerless
(Winner)
Matthew Cody

Peak
(Nominee)
Roland Smith

Greetings from Nowhere
(Nominee)
Barbara O'Connor

The Magic Thief
(Nominee)
Sarah Prineas

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

Masterpiece
(Nominee)
Elise Broach

Heart of a Shepherd
(Nominee)
Rosanne Parry

The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
(Nominee)
Rodman Philbrick

The Rock and the River
(Nominee)
Kekla Magoon

The Girl Who Threw Butterflies
(Nominee)
Mick Cochrane

One-Handed Catch
(Nominee)
Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch

All the Broken Pieces
(Nominee)
Ann E. Burg

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Kelly

Wild Things
(Nominee)
Clay Carmichael

Extra Credit
(Nominee)
Andrew Clements

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
(Nominee)
Grace Lin

Leviathan
(Nominee)
Scott Westerfeld

Woods Runner
(Nominee)
Gary Paulsen

2011

The Hunger Games
(Winner)
Suzanne Collins

A Friendship for Today
(Nominee)
Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

The Alchemyst
(Nominee)
Michael Scott

Schooled
(Nominee)
Gordon Korman

The Boy Who Dared
(Nominee)
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Waiting for Normal
(Nominee)
Leslie Connor

Found
(Nominee)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Savvy
(Nominee)
Ingrid Law

The Mailbox
(Nominee)
Audrey Shafer

Chains
(Nominee)
Laurie Halse Anderson

11 Birthdays
(Nominee)
Wendy Mass

Scat
(Nominee)
Carl Hiaasen

2010

All the Lovely Bad Ones
(Winner)
Mary Downing Hahn

The Naked Mole-Rat Letters
(Nominee)
Mary Amato

Crossing the Wire
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

Dragon Slippers
(Nominee)
Jessica Day George

Shark Girl
(Nominee)
Kelly Bingham

The Wednesday Wars
(Nominee)
Gary D. Schmidt

A Crooked Kind of Perfect
(Nominee)
Linda Urban

The Mozart Question
(Nominee)
Michael Morpurgo

Shooting the Moon
(Nominee)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

Home of the Brave
(Nominee)
Katherine Applegate

2009

The Lightning Thief
(Winner)
Rick Riordan

Heat
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

Rules
(Nominee)
Cynthia Lord

Shug
(Nominee)
Jenny Han

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

Gossamer
(Nominee)
Lois Lowry

Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters
(Nominee)
Lesley M.M. Blume

The Green Glass Sea
(Nominee)
Ellen Klages

Life As We Knew It
(Nominee)
Susan Beth Pfeffer

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
(Nominee)
Brian Selznick

A Drowned Maiden's Hair
(Nominee)
Laura Amy Schlitz

2008

Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie
(Winner)
Jordan Sonnenblick

Worth
(Nominee)
A. La Faye

The Old Willis Place
(Nominee)
Mary Downing Hahn

MVP*: Magellan Voyage Project
(Nominee)
Douglas Evans

Code Talker
(Nominee)
Joseph Bruchac

Thunder From The Sea
(Nominee)
Joan Hiatt Harlow

Chicken Boy
(Nominee)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

The Penderwicks
(Nominee)
Jeanne Birdsall

The Ruins of Gorlan
(Nominee)
John Flanagan

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
(Nominee)
Kate DiCamillo

Adam Canfield of the Slash
(Nominee)
Michael Winerip

Princess Academy
(Nominee)
Shannon Hale

2007

So B. It
(Winner)
Sarah Weeks

Locomotion
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

Airborn
(Nominee)
Kenneth Oppel

Chasing Vermeer
(Nominee)
Blue Balliett

The Star of Kazan
(Nominee)
Eva Ibbotson

Ida B
(Nominee)
Katherine Hannigan

The Sea of Trolls
(Nominee)
Nancy Farmer

2006

Eragon
(Winner)
Christopher Paolini

A Single Shard
(Nominee)
Linda Sue Park

Jackie's Wild Seattle
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

The City of Ember
(Nominee)
Jeanne Duprau

The Tale of Despereaux
(Nominee)
Kate DiCamillo

Al Capone Does My Shirts
(Nominee)
Gennifer Choldenko

2005

Hoot
(Winner)
Carl Hiaasen

Doing Time Online
(Nominee)
Jan Siebold

Overboard
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Fama

House of the Scorpion
(Nominee)
Nancy Farmer

Pictures of Hollis Woods
(Nominee)
Patricia Reilly Giff

2004

Stormbreaker
(Winner)
Anthony Horowitz

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

Hidden Talents
(Nominee)
David Lubar

Dovey Coe
(Nominee)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

Esperanza Rising
(Nominee)
Pam Munoz Ryan

Touching Spirit Bear
(Nominee)
Ben Mikaelsen

Love That Dog
(Nominee)
Sharon Creech

Flipped
(Nominee)
Wendelin Van Draanen

Zach's Lie
(Nominee)
Roland Smith

2003

Fever 1793
(Winner)
Laurie Halse Anderson

Jackie & Me
(Nominee)
Dan Gutman

Jason's Gold
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

Crossing Jordan
(Nominee)
Adrian Fogelin

Stargirl
(Nominee)
Jerry Spinelli

Hope Was Here
(Nominee)
Joan Bauer

A Year Down Yonder
(Nominee)
Richard Peck

I Was a Rat!...or the Scarlet Slippers
(Nominee)
Philip Pullman

2002

Holes
(Winner)
Louis Sachar

Crash
(Nominee)
Jerry Spinelli

Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
(Nominee)
Wendelin Van Draanen

Among the Hidden
(Nominee)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Burning Up
(Nominee)
Caroline B. Cooney

Regarding the Fountain: A Tale in Letters of Liars and Leaks
(Nominee)
Kate Klise

Bud, Not Buddy
(Nominee)
Christopher Paul Curtis

Dave at Night
(Nominee)
Gail Carson Levine

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
(Nominee)
Kimberly Willis Holt

A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt
(Nominee)
C. Coco De Young

Ties That Bind, Ties That Break
(Nominee)
Lensey Namioka

2001

The Last Man's Reward
(Nominee)
David Patneaude

Honus & Me
(Nominee)
Dan Gutman

Riding Freedom
(Nominee)
Pam Munoz Ryan

Skellig
(Nominee)
David Almond
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Poppy and Rye
(Nominee)
Avi

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
(Nominee)
J.K. Rowling

A Long Way from Chicago
(Nominee)
Richard Peck

The Maze
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

The Landry News
(Nominee)
Andrew Clements

Shadow Spinner
(Nominee)
Susan Fletcher

2000

Ella Enchanted
(Winner)
Gail Carson Levine

1999

Frindle
(Winner)
Andrew Clements

1998

Mick Harte Was Here
(Winner)
Barbara Park

1997

The Best School Year Ever
(Winner)
Barbara Robinson

1996

The Giver
(Winner)
Lois Lowry

1995

Flight 116 Is Down
(Winner)
Caroline B. Cooney

1994

Shiloh
(Winner)
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

1993

Maniac Magee
(Winner)
Jerry Spinelli

1992

Number the Stars
(Winner)
Lois Lowry

1991

Matilda
(Winner)
Roald Dahl

1990

Wait Till Helen Comes
(Winner)
Mary Downing Hahn

1989

The Dollhouse Murders
(Winner)
Betty Ren Wright

1988

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

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