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.
Past Winners
2020 | Gratz, Alan | Refugee. |
2019 | Reynolds, Jason | Ghost. |
2018 | Nielsen, Jennifer A. | A Night Divided. |
2017 | Alexander, Kwame | The Crossover. |
2016 | Evans, Richard Paul | Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25. |
2015 | Lu, Marie | Legend. |
2014 | Palacio, R.J. | Wonder. |
2013 | Telgemeier, Raina | Smile. |
2012 | Cody, Matthew | Powerless. |
2011 | Collins, Suzanne | The Hunger Games. |
2010 | Hahn, Mary Downing | All the Lovely Bad Ones: A Ghost Story. |
2009 | Riordan, Rick | The Lightning Thief. |
2008 | Sonnenblick, Jordan | Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie. |
2007 | Weeks, Sarah | So B. It: A Novel. |
2006 | Paolini, Christopher | Eragon. |
2005 | Hiaasen, Carl | Hoot. |
2004 | Horowitz, Anthony | Stormbreaker. |
2003 | Anderson, Laurie Halse | Fever, 1793. |
2002 | Sachar, Louis | Holes. |
2001 | Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. |
2000 | Levine, Gail Carson | Ella Enchanted. |
1999 | Clements, Andrew | Frindle. |
1998 | Park, Barbara | Mick Harte Was Here. |
1997 | Robinson, Barbara | The Best [Worst] School Year Ever. |
1996 | Lowry, Lois | The Giver. |
1995 | Cooney, Caroline | Flight #116 is Down. |
1994 | Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Shiloh. |
1993 | Spinelli, Jerry | Maniac Magee: A Novel. |
1992 | Lowry, Lois | Number the Stars. |
1991 | Dahl, Roald | Matilda. |
1990 | Hahn, Mary Downing | Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story. |
1989 | Wright, Betty Ren | The Dollhouse Murders. |
1988 | Banks, Lynne Reid | The Indian in the Cupboard. |