2008 YRCA NOMINEES
JUNIOR DIVISION (Grades 4-6):
The Day Joanie Frankenhauser Became a Boy by
Francess Lin Lantz
A Dog’s Life: The Autobiography of a Stray by Ann M.
Martin
Double Identity by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
The Scarecrow and His Servant by Philip Pullman
Shakespeare’s Secret by Elise
Broach
Whales on Stilts by M. T. Anderson
MIDDLE DIVISION (Grades 7-9):
Code Orange by Caroline B. Cooney
Flush by Carl Hiaasen
Alice Macleod, Realist at Last by Susan
Juby
Eldest by Christopher Paolini
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K.
Rowling
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld