2012 Rebecca Caudill Nominees

Schools and libraries in Illinois promote the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award. It is a children's choice program for readers in grades four through eight. The 2012 Rebecca Caudill nominees were announced earlier today.

The purposes of the Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award are:

To encourage children and young adults to read for personal satisfaction.
To develop a statewide awareness of outstanding literature for children and young people and to promote a desire for literacy.
To encourage cooperation among Illinois agencies providing educational and library service to young people. (http://www.rcyrba.org/)

One-Handed Catch by MJ Auch

Masterpiece by Elise Broach

All the Broken Pieces by Ann E. Burg

Wild Things by Clay Carmichael

The Girl Who Threw Butterflies by Mick Cochrane

Powerless by Matthew Cody

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon

Wendy Mass reads an excerpt from Every Soul a Star .

Greetings from Nowhere by Barbara O'Connoor

Heart of a Shepherd by Rosanne Parry

Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen

The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick

The Magic Thief by Sarah Prineas

Knucklehead by Jon Scieszka

Peak by Roland Smith

Flygirl by Sherri Smith

Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld