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2008 Young Reader's Choice Award Nominees
These guides will help you begin the discussion. If you're hungry, they 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 YRCA website for more details.
Junior Division
- The Day Joanie Frankenhauser Became a Boy by Francess Lin Lantz
- A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray by Ann Martin
- Double Identity by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan
- Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
- The Scarecrow and His Servant by Philip Pullman
- Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach
- Whales On Stilts by M.T. Anderson
Intermediate Division
- Code Orange by Caroline Cooney
- Flush by Carl Hiaasen
- Alice Macleod, Realist at Last by Susan Juby
- Eldest by Christopher Paolini
- Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
- The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
- Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Senior Division
- Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
- Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes
- Midshipwizard Halcyon-Blithe by James M. Ward
- Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- Shackleton's Stowaway by Victoria McKernan
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