CYRM - Nominees

NOMINEES 2010-2011
Announced February 1, 2010
Ballots must be postmarked by April 1, 2011
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Primary Category

Visitor for Bear by Bonnie Becker. Candlewick Press, 2008.
Pete and Pickles by Berkeley Breathed Philomel, 2008.
Duck by Randy Cecil. Candlewick Press, 2008.
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach by Carmen Deedy. Peachtree Publications, 2008.
Thelonius Monster's Sky-High Fly Pie by Judy Sierra. Knopf, 2006.

Intermediate Category

Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke. The Chicken House, 2007..
Greetings from Planet Earth by Barbara Kerley. Scholastic Press, 2007.
Zorgamazoo by Robert Paul Weston. Razorbill, 2008

Middle School Category

Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis. Scholastic, 2007.
Cracker: the Best Dog in Vietnam by Cynthia Kadohota. Atheneum, 2007.
Skulduggery Pleasant: Scepter of the Ancients, Book 1 by Derek Landy. The Bowen Press, 2007.

Young Adult Category

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Scholastic Press, 2008..
Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson. Henry Holt & Co., 2008.
Unwind by Neal Shusterman. Simon & Schuster, 2007.

Picture Book for Older Readers

Moon Over Star by Diana Aston. Dial, 2008.
John Paul George & Ben by Lane Smith. Hyperion Books, 2006.
Four Feet, two Sandals by Karen Williams by Karen Williams. Eerdmans Books for young Readers, 2007.

NOMINEES 2009-2010
Announced February 1, 2009
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Ballots must be postmarked by April 1, 2010

PRIMARY (Grades K-3)

A Frog Thing by Eric Drachman. Kidwick, 2006.

Do Unto Otters: A Book About Manners by Laurie Keller. Holt, 2007.

My Life as a Chicken by Ellen Kelley. Illustrated by Michael Slack. Harcourt, 2007.

Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly by Alan Madison. Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. Schwartz & Wade, 2007.

Millie Waits for the Mail by Alexander Steffensmeier. Walker, 2007.

INTERMEDIATE (Grades 3-6)

No Talking by Andrew Clements. Simon & Schuster, 2007.

A Friendship for Today by Patricia C. McKissack. Scholastic, 2007.

Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda A. Urban. Random House, 2007.

MIDDLE SCHOOL/JR. HIGH (Grades 6-9)

Blood on the River: Jamestown 1607 by Elisa Carbone. Viking, 2006.

Alabama Moon by Watt Key. Straus & Giroux, 2006

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt.

YOUNG ADULT (Grades 9-12)

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Little Brown and Co., 2007.

Saint Iggy by R.L. Going. Harcourt, 2006.

Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr. Brown, 2007.

PICTURE BOOK FOR OLDER READERS (Grades 4 and up)

Armando and the Blue Tarp School by Edith Hope Fine and Judith Pinkerton Josephson. Illustrated by Hernan Sosa. Lee & Low, 2007.

Owney: The Mail-Pouch Pooch by Mona Kerby. Illustrated by Lynne Barasch. Frances Foster/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

Willy & Max: A Holocaust Story by Amy Littlesugar. Illustrated by William Low. Philomel/Penguin, 2006.