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2012 Oregon Reader's Choice Award Nominees

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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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