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Young Reader's Choice Awards
The Young Reader's Choice Award is presented by the Pacific Northwest Library Association. The late Harry Hartman, a Seattle bookseller established the award in 1940. He had a strong belief that every student should have an opportunity to select a book that gives her or him pleasure.
The goal of this children's choice literature award is to promote reading for enjoyment. The nominations are made by teachers, librarians, students and others and limited to books published within the 3 years previous. The winners are chosen by the children and young adults of Alberta, Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana and Washington. Students have to have read at least 2 of the books. The voting takes place March through April.
This is the oldest children's choice literature award in the USA and Canada. Over 45,000 students now participate in this event.
The Youth Division goes to a book for grades 4-8. In 1991, a Senior Division (grades 9-12) was added to the awards program.
Many of the Authors and Titles have garnered other literary honors. Many listed here can also be found listed on: Multiple Awards Winners.
Young Reader's Choice Awards Winners
2001 Youth: Holes by Louis Sachar | Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print | Audio Cassette | Audio CD Note: See 1998, 1990; Newbery Medal 1999; National Book Award 1998
Senior: The Boxes by William Sleater | Hardcover | Paperback
2000 Youth: A Mouse Called Wolf by Dick King-Smith | Hardcover | Paperback
Senior: The Taking of Room 114 by Mel Glenn, senior | Hardcover
1999 Youth: Frindle by Andrew Clements | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette | e-book Microsoft | e-book Adobe
Senior: SOS Titanic by Eve Bunting | Hardcover | Paperback See 1997
1998 Youth: Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger by Louis Sachar | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette Note: See 2001, 1990
Senior: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette
1997 Youth: Nasty Stinky Sneakers by Eve Bunting | Hardcover | Paperback See 1999
Senior: Driver's Ed by Caroline B. Cooney | Hardcover | Paperback See 1993
1996 Youth: The Boys Start the War by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Paperback See also 1994
Senior: The Giver by Lois Lowry | Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print | Audio Cassette | Audio CD
1995 Youth: Terror at the Zoo by Peg Kehret | Paperback
Senior: Who Killed My Daughter by Lois Duncan | Paperback
1994 Youth: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print | Audio Cassette | DVD | VHS See also 1996
Senior: Wolf by the Ears by Ann Rinaldi | Hardcover | Paperback
1993 Youth: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette
Senior: The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette See 1997
1992 Youth: Danger in Quicksand Swamp by Bill Wallace | Hardcover | Paperback
Senior: Eva by Peter Dickinson | Hardcover | Paperback
1991 First Year for Senior Category
Youth: Ten Kids, No Pets by
Ann M. Martin |
Out of Print
Senior: Sex Education by
Jenny Davis |
Out of Print
1990 There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom by Louis Sachar | Hardcover | Paperback Note: See 1998, 2001
1989 Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn | Hardcover | Paperback
1988 Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You by Barthe DeClements | Hardcover | Paperback
1987 The War With Grandpa by Robert Smith | Hardcover | Paperback
1986 The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette
1985 Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub by Jamie Gilson | Hardcover | Paperback
1984 Indian in The Cupboard by Lynn Reid Banks | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette | DVD | VHS
1983 Superfudge by Judy Blume | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette See also 1977, 1975
1982 Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery by Deborah and James Howe | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette
1981 Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood
by Ellen Conford |
Out of Print
1980 Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette See also 1971, 1968, 1960, 1957
1979 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette | Lesson Plans on CD
1978 The
Great Brain Does It Again by John D. Fitzgerald |
Out of Print
1977 Blubber by Judy Blume | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette See also 1983, 1975
1976 The Great Brain Reforms by John D. Fitzgerald | Hardcover | Paperback
1975 Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette See also 1983, 1977
1974 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien | Hardcover | Paperback
1973 No Award
1972 Encyclopedia Brown Keeps the Peace by Donald J. Sobol | Hardcover | Paperback
1971 Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette See also 1980, 1968, 1960, 1957
1970 Smoke by William Corbin
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Out of Print
1969 Henry Reed's Baby-Sitting Service by Keith Robertson | Hardcover | Paperback
1968 The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette See also 1980, 1971, 1960, 1957
1967 Ian Fleming for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette | DVD | VHS
1966 Rascal by Sterling North | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette
1965 John F. Kennedy and PT-109
by Richard Tregaskis |
Out of Print
1964 The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette
1963 Danny Dunn on the Ocean Floor
by Jay Williams |
Out of Print
1962
The Swamp Fox of the Revolution by Stewart Holbrook
|
Out of Print
1961
Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine by Jay Williams
|
Out of Print
1960 Henry and the Paper Route by Beverly Cleary | Hardcover | Paperback See also 1980, 1971, 1968, 1957
1959 Old Yeller by Fred Gipson | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette | DVD | VHS
1958 Golden Mare
by William Corbin |
Out of Print
1957 Henry and Ribsy by Beverly Cleary | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette See also 1980, 1971, 1968, 1960
1956 Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars
by Ellen MacGregor |
Out of Print
1953 No Award
1954 No Award
1955 No Award
1952 Sea Star by Marguerite Henry | Hardcover | Paperback
1951 King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette
1950 McElligott's Pool by Dr. Seuss | Hardcover
1949 Cowboy Boots by Shannon
Garst |
Out of Print
1948 The Black Stallion Returns by Walter Farley | Hardcover | Paperback
1947 Homer Price by Robert McCloskey | Hardcover | Paperback
1946 The Return of Silver Chief
by Jack O'Brien |
Out of Print
1945 Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan | Hardcover | Paperback
1944 The Black Stallion by Walter Farley | Hardcover | Paperback
1943 Lassie Come Home by Erick Knight | Hardcover | Paperback
1942 By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder | Hardcover | Paperback
Little House Books boxed set
The Early Years Collection : A Special Collection of the First Five Little House Books boxed set
Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography by William Anderson
Little House on the Prairie | DVD
Little House on the Prairie: The Christmas They Never Forgot | DVD
1941 Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater | Hardcover | Paperback
1940 Paul Bunyan Swings His Axe by Dell J. McCormick | Hardcover
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