The Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Award is an Illinois award presented for outstanding literature for young people.  Books are nominated by students in grades 4-8 throughout the state.   Each February, students in these grades have the opportunity to vote for their favorite book.

2008 REBECCA CAUDILL Award Nominees:

Adam Canfield of the Slash, by Michael Winerip
Chicken Boy by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Code Talker:A Novel About the Navajo Marines of WWII by Joseph Bruchac
Crooked River by Shelley Pearsall
Defiance by Valerie Hobbs
Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
East by Edith Pattou
Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo
The Misadventures of Maude March by Audrey Couloumbis
MVP: Magellan Voyage Project by Douglas Evans
The Old Willis Place: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
The Penderwicks: A summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan
Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach
The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman
Thunder from the Sea by Joan Hiatt Harlow
Worth by A. LaFaye
Yankee Girl by Mary Ann Rodman