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Kids' Catalog | Award Winners | Rebecca Caudill Nominees, 2009

The Rebecca Caudill Young Reader’s 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 fifty years. The award is given in recognition of her literary talent and the universal appeal of her books, which have touched the hearts of many children and young adults. The award has been given since 1988. For more information, visit the Rebecca Caudill home page.

2009 Nominees |  Previous Winners

2009 Nominees

Blume, Lesley M. M.  Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters.
Carbone, Elisa.  Blood on the River: James Town 1607.
Han, Jenny.  Shug.
Holm, Jennifer L.  Penny from Heaven.
Key, Watt.  Alabama Moon.
Klages, Ellen.  The Green Glass Sea.
Larson, Kirby.  Hattie Big Sky.
Lisle, Janet Taylor.  Black Duck.
Lord, Cynthia.  Rules.
Lowry, Lois.  Gossamer.
Lupica, Mike.  Heat.
Marrin, Albert.  Oh, Rats! The Story of Rats and People.
Park, Linda Sue.  Project Mulberry.
Paver, Michelle.  Wolf Brother.
Pfeffer, Susan Beth.  Life as We Knew It.
Riordan, Rick.  The Lightning Thief.
Schlitz, Laura Amy.  A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama.
Selznick, Brian.  The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Sherlock, Patti.  Letters From Wolfie.
Wilson, Diane Lee.  Black Storm Comin'. 

Previous Winners

2008 Sonnenblick, Jordan.  Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie.
2007 Weeks, Sarah.  So B. It: A Novel.
2006 Paolini, Christopher.  Eragon.
2005 Hiaasen, Carl.  Hoot.
2004 Horowitz, Anthony.  Stormbreaker.
2003 Anderson, Laurie Halse.  Fever, 1793.
2002 Sachar, Louis.  Holes.
2001 Rowling, J. K.  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
2000 Levine, Gail Carson.  Ella Enchanted.
1999 Clements, Andrew.  Frindle.
1998 Park, Barbara.  Mick Harte Was Here.
1997 Robinson, Barbara.  The Best School Year Ever.
1996 Lowry, Lois.  The Giver.
1995 Cooney, Caroline B.  Flight #116 Is Down.
1994 Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds.  Shiloh.
1993 Spinelli, Jerry.  Maniac Magee: A Novel.
1992 Lowry, Lois.  Number the Stars.
1991 Dahl, Roald.  Matilda.
1990 Hahn, Mary Downing. Wait ‘Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story.
1989 Wright, Betty Ren.  The Dollhouse Murders.
1988 Banks, Lynne Reid.  The Indian in the Cupboard.