Sunshine State Young Reader's Award - Grades 6-8

Awards List

2016

The Secret of Rover
(Nominee)
Rachel Wildavsky

Eye of the Storm
(Nominee)
Kate Messner

Project Jackalope
(Nominee)
Emily Ecton

Stung
(Nominee)
Bethany Wiggins

This Journal Belongs to Ratchet
(Nominee)
Nancy Cavanaugh

The Testing
(Nominee)
Joelle Charbonneau

Twerp
(Nominee)
Mark Goldblatt

Counting by 7s
(Nominee)
Holly Goldberg Sloan

Jack Strong Takes a Stand
(Nominee)
Tommy Greenwald

Seeing Red
(Nominee)
Kathryn Erskine

Jungle of Bones
(Nominee)
Ben Mikaelsen

Tesla's Attic
(Nominee)
Neal Shusterman

The Eighth Day
(Nominee)
Dianne K. Salerni

The Night Gardener
(Nominee)
Jonathan Auxier

Skink -- No Surrender
(Nominee)
Carl Hiaasen

2015

Variant
(Winner)
Robison Wells

Small as an Elephant
(Nominee)
Jennifer Richard Jacobson

I, Emma Freke
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Atkinson

Half Upon a Time
(Nominee)
James Riley

The Boy at the End of the World
(Nominee)
Greg Van Eekhout

The Apothecary
(Nominee)
Maile Meloy

Variant
(Nominee)
Robison Wells

The Lions of Little Rock
(Nominee)
Kristin Levine

The Ghost of Graylock
(Nominee)
Dan Poblocki

The Raft
(Nominee)
S.A. Bodeen

Ungifted
(Nominee)
Gordon Korman

Homesick
(Nominee)
Kate Klise

Dead City
(Nominee)
James Ponti

Endangered
(Nominee)
Eliot Schrefer

Doll Bones
(Nominee)
Holly Black

Far Far Away
(Nominee)
Tom Mcneal

2014

Legend
(Winner)
Marie Lu

The Girl Who Threw Butterflies
(Nominee)
Mick Cochrane

The Dead Boys
(Nominee)
Royce Buckingham

Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze
(Nominee)
Alan Silberberg

Under the Green Hill
(Nominee)
Laura L. Sullivan

Warp Speed
(Nominee)
Lisa Yee

Okay for Now
(Nominee)
Gary D. Schmidt

Free Thaddeus!
(Nominee)
John Gosselink

Cinder
(Nominee)
Marissa Meyer

Wonder
(Nominee)
R.J. Palacio

Starters
(Nominee)
Lissa Price

Chomp
(Nominee)
Carl Hiaasen

The False Prince
(Nominee)
Jennifer A. Nielsen

One for the Murphys
(Nominee)
Lynda Mullaly Hunt

2013

Lost in the River of Grass
(Winner)
Ginny Rorby

The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
(Nominee)
James Patterson; Michael Ledwidge

The Graveyard Book
(Nominee)
Neil Gaiman

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

Wild Things
(Nominee)
Clay Carmichael

Happenstance Found
(Nominee)
P.W. Catanese

90 Miles to Havana
(Nominee)
Enrique Flores-Galbis

Hide and Seek
(Nominee)
Katy Grant

A Long Walk to Water
(Nominee)
Linda Sue Park

How Lamar's Bad Prank Won a Bubba-sized Trophy
(Nominee)
Crystal Allen

Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading
(Nominee)
Tommy Greenwald

Saint Louis Armstrong Beach
(Nominee)
Brenda Woods

2012

Out of My Mind
(Winner)
Sharon M. Draper

Pemba's Song
(Nominee)
Marilyn Nelson; Tonya C. Hegamin

Peace, Locomotion
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

Scat
(Nominee)
Carl Hiaasen

The Prince of Fenway Park
(Nominee)
Julianna Baggott

Alibi Junior High
(Nominee)
Greg Logsted

The Shocking Raid on Westminster
(Nominee)
Berkeley Breathed

Woods Runner
(Nominee)
Gary Paulsen

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
(Nominee)
Tom Angleberger

Dark Life
(Nominee)
Kat Falls

2011

Independence Hall
(Winner)
Roland Smith; Michael P. Spradlin

Do Not Pass Go
(Nominee)
Kirkpatrick Hill

The Boy Who Dared
(Nominee)
Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The Seer of Shadows
(Nominee)
Avi

Football Hero
(Nominee)
Tim Green

Smiles to Go
(Nominee)
Jerry Spinelli

2010

The Misadventures of Maude March
(Nominee)
Audrey Couloumbis

La Linea
(Nominee)
Ann Jaramillo

Dragon Slippers
(Nominee)
Jessica Day George

Gabriel's Horses
(Nominee)
Alison Hart

The Entertainer and the Dybbuk
(Nominee)
Sid Fleischman

Schooled
(Nominee)
Gordon Korman

Airball
(Nominee)
L.D. Harkrader

Go Big or Go Home
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

All the Lovely Bad Ones
(Nominee)
Mary Downing Hahn

Found
(Nominee)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

First Light
(Nominee)
Rebecca Stead

2009

Disney After Dark
(Winner)
Ridley Pearson

Rules
(Nominee)
Cynthia Lord

Adam Canfield of the Slash
(Nominee)
Michael Winerip

Peak
(Nominee)
Roland Smith

2008

The Lightning Thief
(Winner)
Rick Riordan

Jackie's Wild Seattle
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

Under The Same Sky
(Nominee)
Cynthia DeFelice

Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie
(Nominee)
Jordan Sonnenblick

The Old Willis Place
(Nominee)
Mary Downing Hahn

Chicken Boy
(Nominee)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

Heat
(Nominee)
Mike Lupica

Gossamer
(Nominee)
Lois Lowry

Princess Academy
(Nominee)
Shannon Hale

2007

Peter and the Starcatchers
(Winner)
Ridley Pearson; Dave Barry

The Boy Who Spoke Dog
(Nominee)
Clay Morgan
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Double Dutch
(Nominee)
Sharon M. Draper

Return of Gabriel
(Nominee)
John Armistead

Truesight
(Nominee)
David Stahler Jr.

Quake!
(Nominee)
Gail Langer Karwoski

Becoming Naomi Leon
(Nominee)
Pam Munoz Ryan

Chasing the Falconers
(Nominee)
Gordon Korman

Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator
(Nominee)
Jennifer Allison

Flush
(Nominee)
Carl Hiaasen

Cryptid Hunters
(Nominee)
Roland Smith

2006

Heir Apparent
(Winner)
Vivian Vande Velde

Granny Torrelli Makes Soup
(Nominee)
Sharon Creech
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Gregor the Overlander
(Nominee)
Suzanne Collins

Young Man and the Sea
(Nominee)
Rodman Philbrick

Al Capone Does My Shirts
(Nominee)
Gennifer Choldenko

Never Mind!
(Nominee)
Avi; Rachel Vail

Chasing Vermeer
(Nominee)
Blue Balliett

Sahara Special
(Nominee)
Esme Raji Codell

2005

The City of Ember
(Winner)
Jeanne Duprau

Fever 1793
(Nominee)
Laurie Halse Anderson

Esperanza Rising
(Nominee)
Pam Munoz Ryan

The Gadget
(Nominee)
Paul Zindel

Flipped
(Nominee)
Wendelin Van Draanen

Undercurrents
(Nominee)
Willo Davis Roberts

The Ghost Sitter
(Nominee)
Peni R. Griffin

The Tale of Despereaux
(Nominee)
Kate DiCamillo

2004

Touching Spirit Bear
(Winner)
Ben Mikaelsen

Regular Guy
(Nominee)
Sarah Weeks

Miracle's Boys
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

Doing Time Online
(Nominee)
Jan Siebold

Hoot
(Nominee)
Carl Hiaasen

2003

Holes
(Winner)
Louis Sachar

I'm Not Who You Think I Am
(Nominee)
Peg Kehret

Jason's Gold
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

Homeless Bird
(Nominee)
Gloria Whelan

Crossing Jordan
(Nominee)
Adrian Fogelin

The Graduation of Jake Moon
(Nominee)
Barbara Park

The Art of Keeping Cool
(Nominee)
Janet Taylor Lisle

Hope Was Here
(Nominee)
Joan Bauer

Gracie's Girl
(Nominee)
Ellen Wittlinger

Midnight Magic
(Nominee)
Avi

2002

Among the Hidden
(Winner)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Ghost Canoe
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

A Long Way from Chicago
(Nominee)
Richard Peck

The Treasure of Panther Peak
(Nominee)
Aileen Kilgore Henderson

Eye of the Great Bear
(Nominee)
Bill Wallace

The Landry News
(Nominee)
Andrew Clements

Ocean Within
(Nominee)
V.M. Caldwell

Bud, Not Buddy
(Nominee)
Christopher Paul Curtis

The Spy Who Came in from the Sea
(Nominee)
Peggy Nolan

2001

The Ghost of Fossil Glen
(Winner)
Cynthia DeFelice

The Music Of Dolphins
(Nominee)
Karen Hesse

Soldier's Heart
(Nominee)
Gary Paulsen

The Maze
(Nominee)
Will Hobbs

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

Frozen Stiff
(Nominee)
Sherry Shahan

2000

Jaguar
(Winner)
Roland Smith

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