CYRM Current Nominees 2008-2009

CALIFORNIA YOUNG READER MEDAL
2008 - 2009

Current Nominees
California Young Reader Medal Committee
3186 D-1 Airway, Costa Mesa, CA 92626

PRIMARY (K-3rd grades)

Stanley’s Wild Ride by Linda Bailey. Illustrated by Bill Slavin. Kids Can Press, 2006.

The Perfect Nest by Catherine Friend. Illustrated by John Manders. Candlewick Press, 2007.

Bats at the Beach by Brian Lies. Illustrated by Brian Lies. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

Uncle Peter's Amazing Chinese Wedding by Lenore Look. Illustrated by Yumi Heo. Anne Schwartz/Atheneum, 2006.

Hilda Must Be Dancing by Karma Wilson. Illustrated by Suzanne Watts. Margaret K. McElderry Books/ Simon & Schuster, 2004.

INTERMEDIATE (3rd-6th grades)

Phineas L. MacGuire...Erupts!: The First Experiment by Frances O'Roark Dowell. Simon & Schuster, 2006.

Sheep by Valerie Hobbs. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

Clementine by Sara Pennypacker. Illustrated by Marla Frazee. Hyperion, 2006.

Young readers in California
are encouraged to vote!

Votes must be postmarked by April 1, 2009.

MIDDLE SCHOOL/JUNIOR HIGH (6th-8th grades)

Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson. Delacorte Press, 2006

Rules by Cynthia Lord. Scholastic Press, 2006.

Heat by Mike Lupica. Philomel Books, Penguin, 2006.

YOUNG ADULT (9th-12th grades)

Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi by David Chotjewitz. Richard Jackson Book, Antheneum, 2004.

Sold by Patricia McCormick. Hyperion, 2006.

Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer. Harcourt, 2006.

PICTURE BOOKS FOR OLDER READERS (All Ages)

Pop's Bridge by Eve Bunting. Illustrated by C. F. Payne. Harcourt, Inc., 2006.

Mystery at the Club Sandwich by Doug Cushman. Illustrated by Doug Cushman. Clarion Books, 2005.

Brothers by Yin. Illustrated by Chris Soentpiet. Philomel, 2006.