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2012 Oregon Reader's Choice Award Nominees
Book Trailers
Junior Division
(grades 4-6)
Intermediate Division
(grades 7-9)
Senior Division
(grades 10-12)
These guides will help you begin the discussion. If you're hungry, some also provide snack suggestions! Warning! Some guides contain key elements of the plot. Do not read if you don't want to know what happens! Check out the official ORCA website for more details.
Junior Division (4th - 6th grade)
- NERDS by Michael Buckley
- The Day-Glo Brothers by Chris Barton
- Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
- Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
- 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
- Heart of a Shepherd by Rosanne Perry
- The Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan
Intermediate Division (7th - 9th grade)
- North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
- Scat by Carl Hiaasen
- Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose
- The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
- The Carbon Diaries, 2015 by Saci Lloyd
- Notes from the Dog by Gary Paulsen
- When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
- Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Senior Division (10th - 12th grade)
- Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Tales of the Madman Underground by John Barnes
- The Maze Runner by James Dashner
- If I Stay by Gayle Forman
- Love is the Higher Law by David Levithan
- Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork
- Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor
- The Monstrumologist by Richard Yancey
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