Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award

The Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (RCYRBA) is a program sponsored by the Illinois Association of Teachers of English, the Illinois Reading Council, and the Illinois School Library Media Association. The award has been granted annually since 1988. The program is named after children's author Rebecca Caudill, who lived and worked in Urbana, Illinois.

Books honored by this award are selected by a popular vote taken of students between the fourth and eighth grades in the State of Illinois. Books are nominated two years in advance of a selection year by students, teachers, school and public librarians. The nominations are narrowed down to twenty choices by the 70+ member RCYRBA evaluators committee, and put forward as that year's "Master List." Participating schools and public libraries then collect votes from school children starting during the fall of the prior year, up through the end of February in the awarding year.

Winning books

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

External links

* [http://www.rcyrba.org/ Official Site]
* [http://www.rebeccacaudill.org/ Secondary informational site] (sponsored by the Bensenville, Illinois Community Public Library.)