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—Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher, writer, Candide

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YRCA Book Titles for 2008

These books will be read, reviewed and voted on by kids and teens! Find out this year's competitors!

Young Reader's Choice Awards (YRCA) books being voted on this winter for the 2008 awards are :

Junior (4th - 6th grade)

The Day Joanie Frankenhauser Became A Boy

by Francess Lin Lantz

A Dog’s Life : The Autobiography of a Stray

by Ann M Martin

Double Indemnity

by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Listening For Lions

by Gloria Whelan

Princess Academy

by Shannon Hale

The Scarecrow and His Servant

by Phillip Pullman

Shakespeare’s Secret

by Elise Broach

Whales on Stilts

by M. T. Anderson

Intermediate (7th - 9th grade)

Code Orange

by Caroline B. 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 Westerfield

Senior (10th - 12th)

Anansi Boys

by Neil Giaman

Dark Sons

by Nikki Grimes

Midshipwizard Halcyon-Blythe

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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