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The Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award is an annual award given to the author of the book voted most outstanding by students in grades four through eight in participating Illinois schools. The award is named in honor of Rebecca Caudill who lived and wrote in Urbana, Illinois, for nearly 50 years.

Winners

1988	Banks, Lynne Reid	The Indian in the Cupboard.
1989	Wright, Betty Ren	The Dollhouse Murders.
1990	Hahn, Mary Downing	Wait Till Helen Comes.
1991	Dahl, Roald	Matilda.
1992	Lowry, Lois	Number the Stars.
1993	Spinelli, Jerry	Maniac Magee.
1994	Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds	Shiloh.
1995	Cooney, Caroline	Flight #116 is Down.
1996	Lowry, Lois	The Giver.
1997	Robinson, Barbara	The Best School Year Ever.
1998	Park, Barbara	Mick Harte was Here.
1999	Clements, Andrew	Frindle.
2000	Levine, Gail	Ella Enchanted.
2001	Rowling, J.K.	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
2002	Sachar, Louis	Holes.
2003	Anderson, Laurie Halse	Fever, 1793.
2004	Horowitz, Anthony	Stormbreaker.
2005	Hiaasen, Carl	Hoot.
2006	Paolini, Christopher	Eragon.
2007	Weeks, Sarah	So B. It: A Novel.
2008	Sonnenblick, Jordan	Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie.
2009	Riordan, Rick	The Lightning Thief.
2010	Hahn, Mary Downing	All the Lovely Bad Ones: A Ghost Story.
2011	Collins, Suzanne	The Hunger Games.
2012	Cody, Matthew	Powerless.

2012 Nominees The following books can be found on the Rebecca Caudill Nominees shelf just above the Book Match collection.
	Angleberger, Tom	The Strange Case of Origami Yoda.
	Baskin, Nora Raleigh	Anything but Typical.
	Draper, Sharon M.	Out of My Mind.
	Falls, Kat	Dark Life.
	Ferrari, Michael	Born to Fly.
	Friend, Natasha	Bounce.
	Gaiman, Neil	The Graveyard Book.
	Gephart, Donna	How to Survive Middle School.
	Hawkins, Aaron	The Year Money Grew on Trees.
	Holm, Jennifer L.	Turtle in Paradise.
	LaFleur, Suzanne	Love, Aubrey.
	Lai, Thanhha	Inside Out & Back Again.
	Meyer, Susan Lynn	Black Radishes.
	Mulligan, Andy	Trash.
	Perkins, Lynne Rae	As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth.
	Rhodes, Jewell Parker	Ninth Ward.
	Senzai, N.H.	Shooting Kabul.
	Telgemeier, Raina	Smile.
	Wiles, Deborah	Countdown.
	Williams-Garcia, Rita	One Crazy Summer.