The Pacific Northwest Library Association's Young Reader's Choice Award is the oldest children's choice award in the U.S. and Canada. The award was established in 1940. Nominations are taken only from children, teachers, parents and librarians in the Pacific Northwest.

Young Reader's Choice Nominees, 2010

March, 2010 - Voting on YRCA nominees will take place at Boise Public Library.

Junior Division

• The Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley's Journal by Jeff Kinney
• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke
• Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
• Marley: a Dog Like No Other by John Grogan
• Mysterious Benedict Society by Trention Lee Stewart
• No Talking by Andrew Clements

Intermediate Division

• Alchemyst: Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
• Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
• Zen And The Art Of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick
• Peak by Roland Smith
• Plain Janes by Cecil Casteluccil
• Schooled by Gordon Korman
• The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex
• Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landry