The Young Readers Choice Awards are sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Library Association. Winners are chosen by the children and young adults of Alberta, British Columbia, Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and Washington from books published 3 years previously. In 1991, a senior division was added for readers in grades 9 through 12.
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1999
Youth:
Frindle
by Andrew Clements--First Place
Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen--Second Place
Crash by Jerry Spinelli--Third Place
Senior:
SOS Titanic by Eve Bunting--First Place
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman--Second Place
Danger Zone by David Klass--Third Place
1998
Youth:
Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger by Louis Sachar--First Place
Mick Harte Was
Here by Barbara Park--Second Place
Thunder Cave by
Roland Smith--Third Place
Senior:
Midwife's
Apprentice by Karen
Cushman--First Place
In the Middle of the Night by Robert
Cormier--Second Place
Slot Machine by
Chris
Lynch--Third Place
1997
Youth: Nasty Stinky Sneakers by Eve Bunting
Senior: Driver's Ed by Caroline Cooney
1996
Youth: The Boys Start the War by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Senior: The Giver by Lois Lowry
1995
Youth: Terror at the Zoo by Peg Kehret
Senior: Who Killed My Daughter? by Lois Duncan
1994
Youth: Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Senior: Wolf by the Ears by Ann Rinaldi
1993
Youth: Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Senior: The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney
1992
Youth: Danger in Quicksand Swamp by Bill Wallace
Senior: Eva by Peter Dickinson
1991
Youth: Ten Kids, No Pet by Ann M. Martin
Senior: Sex Education by Jenny Davis
1990
There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom by Louis Sachar
1989
Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
1988
Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You by Barthe DeClements
1987
The War With Grandpa by Robert Smith
1986
The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright
1985
Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub by Jamie Gilson
1984
Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
1983
Superfudge by Judy Blume
1982
Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery by Deborah and James Howe
1981
Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood by Ellen Conford
1980
Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
1979
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
1978
The Great Brain Does It Again by John D. Fitzgerald
1977
Blubber by Judy Blume
1976
The Great Brain Reforms by John D. Fitzgerald
1975
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
1974
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
1973
No Award
1972
Encyclopedia Brown Keeps the Peace by Donald J. Sobol
1971
Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary
1970
Smoke by William Corbin
1969
Henry Reed's Baby-Sitting Service by Keith Robertson
1968
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
1967
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming
1966
Rascal by Sterling North
1965
John F. Kennedy and PT-109 by Richard Tregaskis
1964
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
1963
Danny Dunn on the Ocean Floor by Jay Williams
1962
The Swamp Fox of the Revolution by Stewart Holbrook
1961
Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine by Jay Williams
1960
Henry and the Paper Route by Beverly Cleary
1959
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
1958
Golden Mare by William Corbin
1957
Henry and Ribsy by Beverly Cleary
1956
Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars by Ellen MacGregor
1953 - 1955
No Awards given
1952
Sea Star by Marguerite Henry
1951
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
1950
McElligot's Pool by Dr. Seuss
1949
Cowboy Boots by Shannon Garst
1948
The Black Stallion Returns by Walter Farley
1947
Homer Priceby Robert McCloskey
1946
The Return of Silver Chief by Jack O'Brien
1945
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
1944
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
1943
Lassie Come Home by Erick Knight
1942
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
1941
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
1940
Paul Bunyan Swings His Axe by Dell J. McCormick
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