Virginia Readers Choice Award - Elementary

Awards List

2016

Gone Fishing
(Nominee)
Tamera Will Wissinger

Elvis and the Underdogs
(Nominee)
Jenny Lee

Bowling Alley Bandit
(Nominee)
Laurie Keller

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

Mountain Dog
(Nominee)
Margarita Engle

Charlie Bumpers vs. the Teacher of the Year
(Nominee)
Bill Harley

The Show Must Go On!
(Nominee)
Kate Klise

A Snicker of Magic
(Nominee)
Natalie Lloyd

2015

The Sasquatch Escape
(Winner)
Suzanne Selfors

My Life As a Book
(Nominee)
Janet Tashjian

When Life Gives You O.J.
(Nominee)
Erica S. Perl

Tuesdays at the Castle
(Nominee)
Jessica Day George

The Secret Chicken Society
(Nominee)
Judy Cox

Fairest of All
(Nominee)
Sarah Mlynowski

Capture the Flag
(Nominee)
Kate Messner

The Templeton Twins Have an Idea
(Nominee)
Ellis Weiner

Exclamation Mark!
(Nominee)
Amy Krouse Rosenthal

The Sasquatch Escape
(Nominee)
Suzanne Selfors

2014

The One and Only Ivan
(Winner)
Katherine Applegate

Star in the Forest
(Nominee)
Laura Resau

My Invisible Sister
(Nominee)
Beatrice Colin; Sara Pinto

The Lemonade Crime
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Davies

Fractions = Trouble!
(Nominee)
Claudia Mills

Hound Dog True
(Nominee)
Linda Urban

Waiting for the Magic
(Nominee)
Patricia MacLachlan

8 Class Pets + 1 Squirrel // 1 Dog = Chaos
(Nominee)
Vivian Vande Velde

Zero to Hero
(Nominee)
Henry Winkler; Lin Oliver

2013

Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom
(Winner)
Eric Wight

Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse
(Nominee)
Marilyn Singer

The Secrets of the Cicada Summer
(Nominee)
Andrea Beaty

Emily's Fortune
(Nominee)
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Touch Blue
(Nominee)
Cynthia Lord

The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester
(Nominee)
Barbara O'Connor

Because of Mr. Terupt
(Nominee)
Rob Buyea

The Trouble With Chickens
(Nominee)
Doreen Cronin

2012

All the Lovely Bad Ones
(Winner)
Mary Downing Hahn

Drita, My Homegirl
(Nominee)
Jenny Lombard

Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak
(Nominee)
Kay Winters

11 Birthdays
(Nominee)
Wendy Mass

The Dog Days of Charlotte Hayes
(Nominee)
Marlane Kennedy

How Oliver Olson Changed the World
(Nominee)
Claudia Mills

Captain Nobody
(Nominee)
Dean Pitchford

Annie Glover Is Not a Tree Lover
(Nominee)
Darleen Bailey Beard

The 100-year-old Secret
(Nominee)
Tracy Barrett

2011

Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things
(Winner)
Lenore Look

Martina the Beautiful Cockroach
(Nominee)
Carmen Agra Deedy

The Gollywhopper Games
(Nominee)
Jody Feldman

Masterpiece
(Nominee)
Elise Broach

Blown Away!
(Nominee)
Joan Hiatt Harlow

The Magic Half
(Nominee)
Annie Barrows

Gully's Travels
(Nominee)
Tor Seidler

2010

The Lemonade War
(Winner)
Jacqueline Davies

Mallory Vs. Max
(Nominee)
Laurie B. Friedman

Dad, Jackie, and Me
(Nominee)
Myron Uhlberg

No Talking
(Nominee)
Andrew Clements

Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
(Nominee)
Lynne Jonell

A Crooked Kind of Perfect
(Nominee)
Linda Urban

2009

The Ghost's Grave
(Winner)
Peg Kehret

Punished!
(Nominee)
David Lubar

The Homework Machine
(Nominee)
Dan Gutman

Rules
(Nominee)
Cynthia Lord

Phineas L. MacGuire...Erupts!
(Nominee)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

Clementine
(Nominee)
Sara Pennypacker

Winner's Walk
(Nominee)
Nancy Ruth Patterson

Henry's Freedom Box
(Nominee)
Ellen Levine

2008

John, Paul, George & Ben
(Winner)
Lane Smith

Ruby Lu, Brave and True
(Nominee)
Lenore Look

Big House
(Nominee)
Carolyn Coman

The Scarecrow and His Servant
(Nominee)
Philip Pullman

Freedom on the Menu
(Nominee)
Carole Boston Weatherford

2007

The Last Holiday Concert
(Winner)
Andrew Clements

Ida B
(Nominee)
Katherine Hannigan

Friend on Freedom River
(Nominee)
Gloria Whelan

2006

Kensuke's Kingdom
(Nominee)
Michael Morpurgo
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Locomotion
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

Boxes for Katje
(Nominee)
Candace Fleming

Gregor the Overlander
(Nominee)
Suzanne Collins

2005

Saffy's Angel
(Nominee)
Hilary McKay
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Freedom Summer
(Nominee)
Deborah Wiles

A Week in the Woods
(Nominee)
Andrew Clements

2004

The Summer of Riley
(Winner)
Eve Bunting

2003

Because of Winn-Dixie
(Winner)
Kate DiCamillo

2001

The Ghost of Fossil Glen
(Winner)
Cynthia DeFelice

Search for the Shadowman
(Nominee)
Joan Lowery Nixon

Riding Freedom
(Nominee)
Pam Munoz Ryan

1999

Earthquake Terror
(Winner)
Peg Kehret

1998

Fig Pudding
(Winner)
Ralph Fletcher

1997

Time for Andrew
(Winner)
Mary Downing Hahn

1992

The Doll in the Garden
(Winner)
Mary Downing Hahn

1990

Christina's Ghost
(Winner)
Betty Ren Wright

1989

Wait Till Helen Comes
(Winner)
Mary Downing Hahn

1986

Superfudge
(Winner)
Judy Blume

1983

Bridge to Terabithia
(Winner)
Katherine Paterson

1982

Island of the Blue Dolphins
(Winner)
Scott O'Dell

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