Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award

The Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (RCYRBA) 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 and libraries. It is named in honor of children's author Rebecca Caudill, who lived and worked in Urbana, Illinois, and has been presented annually since 1988. It is administered by a volunteer board of directors and presented in cooperation with the Illinois Association of Teachers of English, the Illinois Reading Council, and the Illinois School Library Media Association.

Books honored by this award are selected by a popular vote taken of students between the fourth and eighth grades in the State of Illinois. Books are nominated two years in advance of a selection year by students, teachers, and school and public librarians. The nominations are narrowed down to twenty choices by the 70-80 member RCYRBA Evaluator's Committee, and put forward as that year's "Master List." Participating schools and public libraries then collect votes from children starting during the fall of the prior year, up through the end of February in the awarding year, and the award winner is announced each March.

Winners

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Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award winners[1]
Year Author Title
1988 Lynne Reid Banks The Indian in the Cupboard
1989 Betty Ren Wright The Dollhouse Murders
1990 Mary Downing Hahn Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story
1991 Roald Dahl Matilda
1992 Lois Lowry Number the Stars
1993 Jerry Spinelli Maniac Magee
1994 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Shiloh
1995 Caroline Cooney Flight Number 116 is Down
1996 Lois Lowry The Giver
1997 Barbara Robinson The Best School Year Ever
1998 Barbara Park Mick Harte Was Here
1999 Andrew Clements Frindle
2000 Gail Carson Levine Ella Enchanted
2001 J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2002 Louis Sachar Holes
2003 Laurie Halse Anderson Fever, 1793
2004 Anthony Horowitz Stormbreaker
2005 Carl Hiaasen Hoot
2006 Christopher Paolini Eragon
2007 Sarah Weeks So B. It
2008 Jordan Sonnenblick Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie
2009 Rick Riordan The Lightning Thief
2010 Mary Downing Hahn All the Lovely Bad Ones
2011 Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
2012 Matthew Cody Powerless
2013 Raina Telgemeier Smile
2014 R. J. Palacio Wonder
2015 Marie Lu Legend
2016 Richard Paul Evans Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25
2017 Kwame Alexander The Crossover
2018 Jennifer A. Nielsen A Night Divided
2019 Jason Reynolds Ghost
2020 Alan Gratz Refugee
2021 Kelly Yang Front Desk
2022 Dan Gemeinhart The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
2023 Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed When Stars Are Scattered

References

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  1. ^ "Past Winners List". Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
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