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Young Reader's Choice Award titles 
YRCA
   

2009 Nominations

Junior Division:

Gossamer
Lois Lowry

The Higher Power of Lucky
Susan Petron

The Homework Machine
Dan Gutman

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Kate Di Camillo

To Dance
Siena Cherson Siegel

Room One: a mystery or two
Andrew Clements

Rules
Cynthia Lord

The Year of the Dog
Grace Lin

Intermediate Division:

Ark Angel
Anthony Horowitz

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: a fable
John Boyne

Dairy Queen
Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Endymion Spring
Mathew Skelton

Half-Moon Investigations
Eoin Colfer

Fablehaven
Brandon Mull

The Pinhoe Egg
Dianna Wynne Jones

Small Steps
Loius Sacher

Senior Division:
(select titles)

The Book Thief
Markus Zusak

Life As We Knew It
Susan Beth Pfeffer

New Moon
Stephanie Meyer

The Road of the Dead
Kevin Brooks











2008 Nominations

Junior Division:

The Princess Academy
Shannon Hale

The Day Joanie Frankenhauser Became a Boy
Francess Lantz

The Scarecrow and His Servant
Phillip Pullman

Listening for Lions
Gloria Whelan

A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray
Ann M. Martin

Shakespeare's Secret 
Elise Broach

Double Identity
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Whales on Stilts
M.T. Anderson

Intermediate Division:

Code Orange
Caroline B. Cooney

Criss Cross
Lynne Rae Perkins

Flush
Carl Hiaasen

The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan

Alice Macleod, Realist at Last
Susan Juby

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J.K. Rowling

Eldest
Christopher Paolini

Uglies
Scott Westerfield

Senior Division:
 (select titles)

Shackleton's Stowaway
Victoria McKernan

Dark Sons
Nikki Grimes




 2008 Boise Kids Read the Same Book program

Young Adult:

No More Dead Dogs
Gordon Korman

Middle Readers:
The View From Saturday
E.L. Konigsburg

Young Readers:
Martha Speaks
Susan Meddaugh


2008 Adult Boise Big Read program
My Antonia
Willa Cather


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2008 Newbery Medal Winner

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
by Laura Amy Schlitz, illustrated by Robert Byrd, and published by Candlewick.

2008 Caldecott Winner

The Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick

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