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 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award

The Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award is an annual award given to the author of the book voted most outstanding by students in grades four through eight in participating Illinois schools.   The award is named in honor of Rebecca Caudill who lived and wrote in Urbana, Illinois, for nearly 50 years.  Click here for the current nominees.

Winners

1988 Banks, Lynne Reid The Indian in the Cupboard.
1989 Wright, Betty Ren The Dollhouse Murders.
1990 Hahn, Mary Downing Wait Till Helen Comes.
1991 Dahl, Roald Matilda.
1992 Lowry, Lois Number the Stars.
1993 Spinelli, Jerry Maniac Magee.
1994 Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Shiloh.
1995 Cooney, Caroline Flight #116 is Down.
1996 Lowry, Lois The Giver.
1997 Robinson, Barbara The Best School Year Ever.
1998 Park, Barbara Mick Harte was Here.
1999 Clements, Andrew Frindle.
2000 Levine, Gail Ella Enchanted.
2001 Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
2002 Sachar, Louis Holes.
2003 Anderson, Laurie Halse Fever, 1793.
2004 Horowitz, Anthony Stormbreaker.
2005 Hiaasen, Carl Hoot.
2006 Paolini, Christopher Eragon.


2007 Nominees
 

Balliett, Blue Chasing Vermeer.
Barry, Dave Peter and the Starcatchers.
Collins, Suzanne Gregor the Overlander.
Creech, Sharon Heartbeat.
Cummings, Priscilla Red Kayak.
Farmer, Nancy The Sea of Trolls
Feinstein, John Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery.
Ferris, Jean Once Upon a Marigold.
Hannigan, Katherine Ida B...and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World.
Ibbotson, Eva The Star of Kazan.
Levine, Karen Hana's Suitcase.
McKernan, Victoria Shackleton's Stowaway.
Newman, Lesléa Hachiko Waits.
Oppel, Kenneth Airborn.
Patneaude, David Thin Wood Walls.
Ryan, Pam Muñoz Becoming Naomi León.
Walker, Sally M. Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley.
Weeks, Sarah So B. It: A Novel.
Wiles, Deborah Each Little Bird That Sings.
Woodson, Jacqueline Locomotion.

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