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YRCA Past Winners
2008 Junior Division - A Dog's Life: Autobiography of a Stray by Ann Martin
Intermediate Division - Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Senior Division - Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson
2007 Junior: Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke
Intermediate - Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
Senior - Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
2006

Junior: The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

Intermediate: Eragon - Christopher Paolini

Senior: Fat Kid Rules the World - K. L. Going
2005

Junior: THE THIEF LORD by Corneila Funke

Intermediate: SON OF THE MOB by Gordon Korman

Senior: THE HOUSE OF THE SCORPION by Nancy Farmer
2004

Junior: SKELETON MAN by Joseph Bruchac

Intermediate: ARTEMIS FOWL by Eoin Colfer

Senior: THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS by Ann Brashares

 sisterhood of travelling pants
2003

Junior: Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Dicamillo

Intermediate: No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman

Senior: Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
 no more dead dogs book jacket
2002

Junior: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Intermediate: Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer

Senior: Rewind by William Sleator
Bud not buddy book jacket
2001 Junior: Holes by Louis Sachar (Farrar Straus & Giroux; Yearling Books)


Senior: The Boxes by William Sleator (Dutton Books;Puffin)
Holes book jacket
2000

Youth:A Mouse Called Wolf  by Dick King-Smith (Crown, 1997)

Senior:The Taking of Room 114  by Mel Glenn (Lodestar, 1997)
Mouse called wolf book jacket

 

1999 Youth: Frindle by Andrew Clements
Senior: SOS Titanic by Eve Bunting
1998 Youth: Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger by Louis Sachar (Avon/Camelot) 
Senior: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Harper Trophy) 
1997 Youth: Nasty Stinky Sneakers by Eve Bunting (HarperCollins) 
Senior: Driver's Ed by Caroline B. Cooney (Dell) 
1996 Youth: The Boys Start the War by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 
Senior: The Giver by Lois Lowry
1995 Youth: Terror at the Zoo by Peg Kehret (Dutton) 
Senior: Who Killed My Daughter by Lois Duncan (Delacorte)
1994 Youth: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Atheneum) 
Senior: Wolf by the Ears by Ann Rinaldi (Scholastic) 
1993 Youth: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Little) 
Senior: The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney (Bantam) 
1992 Youth: Danger in Quicksand Swamp by Bill Wallace (Holiday) 
Senior: Eva by Peter Dickinson (Delacorte)
1991 Youth: Ten Kids, No Pets by Ann M. Martin (Holiday) 
Senior: Sex Education by Jenny Davis (Orchard House) 
1990 There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar (Knopf) 
1989 Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn (Ticknor & Fields) 
1988 Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You by Barthe DeClements (Viking/Scholastic) 
1987 The War With Grandpa by Robert Smith (Delacorte) 
1986 The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright (Holiday) 
1985 Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub by Jamie Gilson (Lothrop) 
1984 Indian in the Cupboard by Lynn Reid Banks (Doubleday)
1983  Superfudge by Judy Blume (Dutton)
1982 Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery by Deborah and James Howe (Atheneum) 
1981 Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood by Ellen Conford (Little)
1980 Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
1979 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor (Dial) 
1978 The Great Brain Does It Again by John D. Fitzgerald (Dial)
1977 Blubber by Judy Blume (Bradbury) 
1976 The Great Brain Reforms by John D. Fitzgerald (Dial)
1975 Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume (Dutton)
1974 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (Atheneum)
1973 No Award 
1972 Encyclopedia Brown Keeps the Peace by Donald J. Sobol (Nelson)
1971 Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary (Morrow) 
1970 Smoke by William Corbin (Coward) 
1969 Henry Reed's Baby-Sitting Service by Keith Robertson (Viking)
1968 The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary (Morrow) 
1967 Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang by Ian Fleming (Random)
1966 Rascal by Sterling North (Dutton) 
1965 John F. Kennedy and PT-109 by Richard Tregaskis (Random)
1964 The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford (Atlantic-Little)
1963 Danny Dunn on the Ocean Floor by Jay Williams (McGraw)
1962 The Swamp Fox of the Revolution by Stewart Holbrook (Random)
1961 Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine by Jay Williams (McGraw)
1960 Henry and the Paper Route by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
1959

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

(Harper)
1958 Golden Mare by William Corbin (Coward)
1957 Henry and Ribsy by Beverly Cleary (Morrow)
1956 Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars by Ellen MacGregor (McGraw) 
1953 to 1955 No Awards
1952 Sea Star by Marguerite Henry (Rand)
1951 King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (Rand)
1950 McElligot's Pool by Dr. Seuss (Random)
1949 Cowboy Boots by Shannon Garst (Abingdon)
1948 The Black Stallion Returns by Walter Farley (Random)
1947 Homer Price by Robert McCloskey (Viking) 
1946 The Return of Silver Chief by Jack O'Brien (Holt)
1945 Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan (Dutton) 
1944 The Black Stallion by Walter Farley (Random)
1943 Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight (Holt)

1942 By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Harper)
1941 Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater (Little)
1940

Paul Bunyan Swings His Axe by Dell J. McCormick (Caxton)

 

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