Young Reader's Choice Award

 

2010 Nominees - Junior Division (grades 4 - 6)

Seer of Shadows by Avi
In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally free the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn.

Ignatius MacFarland: Frequenaut! by Paul Feig
Bullied in school and called "Piggy MacFartland," twelve-year-old Iggy longs to travel to another planet and live among extraterrestrials, until an explosion transports him to a scary alternate reality.

Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.

Amulet: The Stonekeeper by Kazu Kibuishi
After chasing after the tentacled monster that kidnapped their mother, Emily and Navin find themselves in a magical but dangerous world of man-eating demons and shadowy enemies, where they must learn to control a powerful amulet given to them by their inventor grandfather.

Swindle by Gordon Korman
After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palomino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.

Savvy by Ingrid Law
For generations, the Beaumont family has harbored a magical secret.  They each possess a "savvy," a special supernatural power that strikes when they turn thirteen.  Two days before her thirteenth birthday, Mibs Beaumont's father is injured in a terrible accident.  Can her "savvy" save him?

Dog Lost by Ingrid  Lee
After living happily in a warm home with an eleven-year-old boy, a pit bull terrier is force to survive on the streets, where its brave deeds surprise many residents who dislike or fear pit bulls.

2010 Nominees

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2010 Nominees - Middle Division (grades 7 - 9)

Chains: Seeds of Americas by Laurie Halse Anderson
After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.

Airhead by Meg Cabot
Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels.

Airman by Eoin Colfer
In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build and trust to carry him to safety. 

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.

Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon and Dean Hale
Rapunzel is raised in a grand villa surrounded by towering walls.  Rapunzel dreams of a different mother than Gothel, the woman she calls Mother.  She climbs over the wall and finds out the truth.  Her real mother, Kate, is a slave in Gothel's gold mine.  In theis Old West retelling, Rapunzel uses her hair as a lasso to take on outlaws - including Gothel.

The Juvie Three by Gordon Korman
Gecko, Arjay and Terence, all in trouble with the law, must find a way to keep their halfway house open in order to stay out of juvenile detention.

Zorgamazoo by Robert Paul Weston
Imaginative and adventurous Katrina eludes her maniacal guardian to help Morty, a member of a vanishing breed of zorgles.  Morty is on a quest to uncover the fate of the fabled zorgles of Zorgmazoo as well as the fates of other creatures that seem to have disappeared from earth.