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YOUNG READERS’ CHOICE AWARD (YRCA)
2006 Nominees
Intermediate Division 7th – 9th Grade
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup
By Ron Koertge
When a 14 year old baseball player catches mononucleosis, he discovers that keeping a journal and experimenting with poetry not only helps him deal with life, love, and loss. (Muze Inc.)
The River Between Us
By Richard Peck
During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in tow mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.
Millicent Min, Girl
Genius
By Lisa Yee
Eleven-year-old child prodigy Millicent Min records her struggles to learn to play volleyball, tutor her enemy, deal with her grandmother’s departure, and make friends over the course of a tumultuous summer.
Warriors #1: Into
the Wild
By Erin Hunter
For generations, four clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by their warrior ancestors. But now there is trouble. In the midst of this turmoil appears an ordinary house cat named Rusty, who may turn out to be the bravest warrior of them all.
Eragon
By Christopher
Paolini
In Aagaesia, a 15 year old boy of unknown linage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
An enormous white bear mysteriously show up and asks Rose to come away with him. The bear takes Rose to a distant castle, where each night she is confronted with a mystery. In solving that mystery, she finds love, discovers her purpose, and realizes her travels have only just begun.
The Conch Bearer
By Chitra B.
Divakaruni
In a dingy shack in the less-than-desirable Indian neighborhood he calls home, 12 year old Anand is entrusted with a conch shell that possesses mystical powers. His task is to return the shell to its rightful home many hundreds of miles away. His quest will take further from home than he’s ever been and will teach him more that he ever imagined.
The City of Ember
By Jeanne Duprau
The city of Ember was built as a last refuge for the human race. Two hundred years later, the great lamps that light the city are beginning to flicker. When Lina finds part of an ancient message, she’s sure it holds a secret that will save the city.
YOUNG READERS’ CHOICE AWARD (YRCA)
2006 Nominees
Junior Division 4th – 6th Grades
The Tale of
Despereaux
By Kate DiCamillo
A mouse, who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea…A rat, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light…A slow-witted girl who harbors a simple, impossible wish. These three characters are about to embark upon a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering castle, and into each other lives.
Sahara Special
By Esme Raji
Codell
Struggling with school and her feelings since her father left, Sahara gets a fresh start with a new and unique teacher who supports her writing talents and the individuality of each of her classmates.
Rodzina
By Karen Cushman
In 1881, 12-year-old Rodzina wishes she didn’t have to board the orphan train in Chicago. But she has no home, no family, no choice. As the train head west, all Rodzina has is a small suitcase and her family memories of the past. Will Rodzina ever find the family that deep in her heart she longs for?
Olive’s Ocean
By Kevin Kenkes
Olive Barstow was dead. She’d been hit by a car on Monroe Street while riding her bicycle weeks ago. Now Martha can’t stop thinking about Olive. A family summer on Cape Cod should help banish those thoughts; instead, they seep in everywhere.
The Mayor of
Central Park
By Avi
Oscar Westerwit, a squirrel who loves baseball and Broadway musicals, fights back when a gangster rat named Big Daddy Duds and his thugs move uptown in the year 1900, invade Central Park , and evict Oscar and his animal friends from their home.
Kensuke’s
Kingdom
By Michael Morpurgo
When Michael is swept off his family’s yacht, he washes up on a desert island, where he struggles to survive—until he finds he is not alone.
Gregor the
Overlander
By Suzanne Collins
When Gregor falls through a grate in the laundry, he hurtles into the dark Underland, where spiders, rats, cockroaches coexist uneasily with human. Gregor has a role to play in the Underland’s uncertain future and he wants no part of it—until he realizes it’s the only way to solve the mystery of his father’s disappearance.
Granny Torrelli
Makes Soup
By Sharon Creech
Twelve-year-old Rosie and her best friend, Bailey, don’t always get along. But Granny Torrelli seems to know just how to make things right again with her interesting stories and family recipes. It’s easier to remember what’s important about love, life, and friendship while Granny Torrelli makes soup.
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