Virginia Readers Choice Award - Middle School

Awards List

2016

Shadow
(Nominee)
Michael Morpurgo

Prisoner B-3087
(Nominee)
Alan M. Gratz

Twerp
(Nominee)
Mark Goldblatt

Zero Tolerance
(Nominee)
Claudia Mills

Counting by 7s
(Nominee)
Holly Goldberg Sloan

Seeing Red
(Nominee)
Kathryn Erskine

Half a Chance
(Nominee)
Cynthia Lord

Under the Egg
(Nominee)
Laura Marx Fitzgerald

2015

One for the Murphys
(Winner)
Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Inside Out and Back Again
(Nominee)
Thanhha Lai

Cinder
(Nominee)
Marissa Meyer

Spy School
(Nominee)
Stuart Gibbs

One for the Murphys
(Nominee)
Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Ungifted
(Nominee)
Gordon Korman

Drama
(Nominee)
Raina Telgemeier

Endangered
(Nominee)
Eliot Schrefer

2014

Wonder
(Winner)
R.J. Palacio

A Long Walk to Water
(Nominee)
Linda Sue Park

Storm Runners
(Nominee)
Roland Smith

Okay for Now
(Nominee)
Gary D. Schmidt

Hidden
(Nominee)
Helen Frost

Quarterback Season
(Nominee)
Fred Bowen

Wonderstruck
(Nominee)
Brian Selznick

The False Prince
(Nominee)
Jennifer A. Nielsen

2013

Powerless
(Winner)
Matthew Cody

Peak
(Nominee)
Roland Smith

Cosmic
(Nominee)
Frank Cottrell Boyce

All the Broken Pieces
(Nominee)
Ann E. Burg

When You Reach Me
(Nominee)
Rebecca Stead

Operation Yes
(Nominee)
Sara Lewis Holmes

Heart of a Samurai
(Nominee)
Margi Preus

Camo Girl
(Nominee)
Kekla Magoon

2012

Out of My Mind
(Winner)
Sharon M. Draper

The Leanin' Dog
(Nominee)
K.A. Nuzum

The Rock and the River
(Nominee)
Kekla Magoon

Pop
(Nominee)
Gordon Korman

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
(Nominee)
Tom Angleberger

Mockingbird
(Nominee)
Kathryn Erskine

Ways to Live Forever
(Nominee)
Sally Nicholls

2011

Breathe: A Ghost Story
(Winner)
Cliff McNish

After Tupac and D Foster
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

All of the Above
(Nominee)
Shelley Pearsall

Shooting the Moon
(Nominee)
Frances O'Roark Dowell

The Underneath
(Nominee)
Kathi Appelt

The Girl Who Could Fly
(Nominee)
Victoria Forester

T4
(Nominee)
Ann Clare LeZotte

The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had
(Nominee)
Kristin Levine

2010

Savvy
(Winner)
Ingrid Law

London Calling
(Nominee)
Edward Bloor

Keeper
(Nominee)
Mal Peet

The Wednesday Wars
(Nominee)
Gary D. Schmidt

Miss Spitfire
(Nominee)
Sarah Miller

Book of a Thousand Days
(Nominee)
Shannon Hale

Uprising
(Nominee)
Margaret Peterson Haddix

First Light
(Nominee)
Rebecca Stead

2009

Airborn
(Winner)
Kenneth Oppel

Blue
(Nominee)
Joyce Moyer Hostetter

Adam Canfield of the Slash
(Nominee)
Michael Winerip

2008

The Lightning Thief
(Winner)
Rick Riordan

Code Talker
(Nominee)
Joseph Bruchac

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

2007

The Sea of Trolls
(Winner)
Nancy Farmer

Al Capone Does My Shirts
(Nominee)
Gennifer Choldenko

Chasing Vermeer
(Nominee)
Blue Balliett

Worth
(Nominee)
A. La Faye

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

2006

Eragon
(Winner)
Christopher Paolini

Olive's Ocean
(Nominee)
Kevin Henkes

The Wish List
(Nominee)
Eoin Colfer

So B. It
(Nominee)
Sarah Weeks

2005

Hitler's Daughter
(Nominee)
Jackie French
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Hush
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Woodson

Pictures of Hollis Woods
(Nominee)
Patricia Reilly Giff

2003

No More Dead Dogs
(Winner)
Gordon Korman

2001

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
(Winner)
Jack Gantos

Out of the Dust
(Nominee)
Karen Hesse
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Tangerine
(Nominee)
Edward Bloor
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

Seedfolks
(Nominee)
Paul Fleischman

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

The Wreckers
(Nominee)
Iain Lawrence

2000

Spirit Seeker
(Winner)
Joan Lowery Nixon

1999

Crash
(Winner)
Jerry Spinelli

1997

Crazy Lady!
(Winner)
Jane Leslie Conly
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1995

Flight 116 Is Down
(Winner)
Caroline B. Cooney

1994

The Dead Man in Indian Creek
(Winner)
Mary Downing Hahn

1993

Maniac Magee
(Winner)
Jerry Spinelli

1992

A Family Apart
(Winner)
Joan Lowery Nixon

1991

Good Night, Mr. Tom
(Winner)
Michelle Magorian

1987

The Curse of the Blue Figurine
(Winner)
John Bellairs

1986

The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
(Winner)
Paula Danziger
  • / General Fiction
  • Buy Buy

1984

The Westing Game
(Winner)
Ellen Raskin

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