Kids: Young Reader's Choice Award
The Young Reader's Choice Award was first presented by the children of the Pacific Northwest in 1940. Between 1940 and 1990 one award was given each year. In 1991 the award was divided into a Youth and a Senior division. From 1991 through 2001 two awards were presented, one in each category. With the 2002 list of nominees, the YRCA established three divisions: Junior, Intermediate, and Senior and three winners were selected.
In addition to the previous winners, listed below, you might also like to see the list of nominees for the 2013 Young Reader's Choice Award.
2010s
2012 Junior 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
2012 Intermediate Maze Runner by James Dashner
2012 Senior Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
2011 Junior Amulet: The Stonekeeper by Kazu Kibuishi
2011 Intermediate Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon Hale
2011 Senior The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
2010 Junior Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley's Journal by Jeff Kinney
2010 Intermediate Schooled by Gordon Korman
2010 Senior City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
2000s
2009 Junior The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
2009 Intermediate The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
2009 Senior New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
2008 Junior A Dog's Life: Autobiography of a Stray by Ann M. Martin
2008 Intermediate The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
2008 Senior Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson
2007 Junior Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke
2007 Intermediate Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
2007 Senior Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
2006 Junior The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
2006 Intermediate Eragon by Christopher Paolini
2006 Senior Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going
2005 Junior The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
2005 Intermediate Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman
2005 Senior The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
2004 Junior Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac
2004 Intermediate Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
2004 Senior Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
2003 Junior Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
2003 Intermediate No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
2003 Senior Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
2002 Junior Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
2002 Intermediate Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer
2002 Senior Rewind by William Sleator
2001 Youth Holes by Louis Sachar
2001 Senior The Boxes by William Sleator
2000 Youth A Mouse Called Wolf by Dick King-Smith
2000 Senior The Taking of Room 114 by Mel Glenn
1990s
1999 Youth Frindle by Andrew Clements
1999 Senior SOS Titanic by Eve Bunting
1998
1998 Senior The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
1997 Youth Nasty Stinky Sneakers by Eve Bunting
1997 Senior Driver's Ed by Caroline B. Cooney
1996 Youth The Boys Start the War by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
1996 Senior The Giver by Lois Lowry
1995 Youth Terror at the Zoo by Peg Kehret
1995 Senior Who Killed My Daughter by Lois Duncan
1994 Youth Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
1994 Senior Wolf by the Ears by Ann Rinaldi
1993 Youth Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
1993 Senior The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney
1992 Youth Danger in Quicksand Swamp by Bill Wallace
1992 Senior Eva by Peter Dickinson
1991 Youth Ten Kids, No Pets by Ann M. Martin
1991 Senior Sex Education by Jenny Davis
1990 There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom by Louis Sachar
1980s
1989 Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn
1988 Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You by Barthe DeClements
1987 The War With Grandpa by Robert Kimmel Smith
1986 The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright
1985 Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub by Jamie Gilson
1984 The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynn Reid Banks
1983 Superfudge by Judy Blume
1982 Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery by James Howe
1981 Hail, Hail,
1980 Ramona and Her Father by
1970s
1979 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
1978 The Great Brain Does it Again by John Dennis Fitzgerald
1977 Blubber by Judy Blume
1976 The Great Brain Reforms by John Dennis Fitzgerald
1975 Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
1974 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
1973 No Award Given
1972 Encyclopedia Brown Keeps the Peace by Donald Sobol
1971 Ramona the Pest by
1970 Smoke by Corbin (not owned by SPL)
1960s
1969 Henry Reed's Babysitting Service by Keith Robertson
1968 The Mouse and the Motorcycle by
1967 Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming
1966 Rascal by
1965 John F. Kennedy and PT-109 (not owned by SPL)
1964 The Incredible Journey by Sheila Every Burnford
1963 Danny Dunn on the Ocean Floor by Jay Williams (not owned by SPL)
1962 The Swamp Fox of the Revolution by Stewart Holbrook (not owned by SPL)
1961 Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine by Jay Williams
1960 Henry and the Paper Route by
1950s
1959 Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
1958 Golden Mare by Corbin (not owned by SPL)
1957 Henry and Ribsy by
1956 Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars by Ellen MacGregor (not owned by SPL)
1955, 1954, 1953 No Award Given
1952 Sea Star, Orphan of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
1951 King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
1950 McElligot'sPool by Dr. Seuss
1940s
1949 Cowboy Boots by Garst (not owned by SPL)
1948 The Black Stallion Returns by Walter Farley
1947 Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
1946 The Return of Silver Chief by Jack O'Brien (not owned by SPL)
1945 Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
1944 The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
1943 Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight
1942 By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1941 Mr.Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
1940 Paul Bunyan Swings His Axe by Dell J. McCormick (not owned by SPL)