2017-18+Nominated+Titles

** Awards Program Master List ** ** 2017 - 2018 **   See our NEW website at https://pyrcapsla.wixsite.com/pyrca Kindergarten – 3rd Grade Grades 3-6
 * Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice **
 * Corey, Shana; illustrated by Red Nose Studios || //The Secret Subway// || Schwartz & Wade ||
 * Fogliano, Julie; illustrated by Julie Morstad || //When Green Becomes Tomatoes// || Roaring Brook Press ||
 * Green, John Patrick || //Hippopotamister// || First Second ||
 * Haynes, Richard; illustrated by Stephen Gilpin || //Slingshot and Burp// || Candlewick Press ||
 * Higgins, Ryan T. || //Mother Goose Bruce// || Disney-Hyperion ||
 * Kennedy, Anne Vittur || //Ragweed’s Farm Dog Handbook// || Candlewick Press ||
 * Kleber, Dori; illustrated by G. Brian Karas || //More-igami// || Candlewick Press ||
 * Macy, Sue; illustrated by C. F. Payne || //Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber// || Paula Wiseman Books ||
 * McCloskey, Kevin || //We Dig Worms!// || TOON Books ||
 * Miller, Pat; illustrated by Vincent X. Kirsch || //The Hole Story of a Doughnut// || Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ||
 * O’Neal, Shaquille; illustrated by Theodore Taylor III || //Little Shaq// || Bloomsbury ||
 * Rockliff, Mara; illustrated by Iacopo Bruno || //Anything but Ordinary Addie: The True Story of Adelaide Herrmann, Queen of Magic// || Candlewick Press ||
 * Schnell, Lisa Kahn; illustrated by Alan Marks || //High Tide for Horseshoe Crabs// || Charlesbridge ||
 * Torrey, Richard || //My Dog, Bob// || Holiday House ||
 * Urban, Linda; illustrated by Katie Kath || //Weekends with Max and His Dad// || Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ||
 * Anderson, John David || //Ms. Bixby's Last Day// || Walden Pond Press ||
 * Barton, Chris; illustrated by Don Tate || //Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions// || Charlesbridge ||
 * Beasley, Kate || //Gertie's Leap to Greatness// || Farrar, Straus & Giroux ||
 * Beatty, Robert || //Serafina and the Black Cloak// || Disney-Hyperion ||
 * Bodeen, S. A. || //Shipwreck Island// || Feiwel and Friends ||
 * Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker || //The War that Saved My Life// || Dial Books for Young Readers ||
 * Pennypacker, Sara || //Pax// || Balzer + Bray ||
 * Polacco, Patricia || //Tucky Jo and Little Heart// || Paula Wiseman Books ||
 * Robinson, Sharon || //The Hero Two Doors Down// || Scholastic Press ||
 * Rosenstock, Barb; illustrated by Gérard DuBois || //Dorothea's Eyes: Dorothea Lange Photographs the Truth// || Calkins Creek ||
 * Sachar, Louis || //Fuzzy Mud// || Delacorte Press ||
 * Sepahban, Lois || //Paper Wishes// || Farrar, Straus & Giroux ||
 * Shovan, Laura || //The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary// || Wendy Lamb Books ||
 * Telgemeier, Raina || // Ghosts // || Graphix ||
 * Weeks, Sarah & Gita Varadarajan || //Save Me a Seat// || Scholastic Press ||

Grades 6-8
 * Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem & Raymond Obstfeld || // Sasquatch in the Paint // || Disney-Hyperion ||
 * Bauer, Joan || // Soar // || Viking ||
 * Chmakova, Svetlana || // Awkward // || Yen Press ||
 * Choldenko, Gennifer || // Chasing Secrets // || Wendy Lamb Books ||
 * Collier, Peter || // Choosing Courage // || Artisan ||
 * Columbus, Chris & Ned Vizzini || // House of Secrets // || Balzer + Bray ||
 * Hoose, Phillip || // The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club // || Farrar Straus Giroux ||
 * Jarrow, Gail || // Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded America // || Calkins Creek ||
 * Jones, Harmony || // Girl vs. Boy Band: The Right Track // || Bloomsbury ||
 * Korman, Gordon || // Slacker // || Scholastic Press ||
 * Pearsall, Shelley || // The Seventh Most Important Thing // || Alfred A. Knopf ||
 * Ryan, Pam Muñoz || // Echo // || Scholastic Press ||
 * Thomson, Sarah L. || // Deadly Flowers: A Ninja’s Tale // || Boyds Mills Press ||
 * Unsworth, Tania || // The One Safe Place // || Algonquin Young Readers ||
 * Wolk, Lauren || // Wolf Hollow // || Dutton Children’s Books ||

Young Adult
 * Backderf, Derf || //Trashed// || Abrams ComicArts ||
 * Crowder, Melanie || //Audacity// || Philomel Books ||
 * Federle, Tim || //The Great American Whatever// || Simon & Schuster BFYR ||
 * Garner, Paula || //Phantom Limbs// || Candlewick Press ||
 * Johnston, E. K. || //Exit, Pursued by a Bear// || Dutton Books ||
 * King, A. S. || //Still Life with Tornado// || Dutton Books ||
 * Lewis, John & Andrew Aydin; illustrated by Nate Powell || //March: Book Three// || Top Shelf Productions ||
 * McGee, Katharine || //The Thousandth Floor// || Harper ||
 * Medina, Meg || //Burn Baby Burn// || Candlewick Press ||
 * Meyer, Marissa || //Heartless// || Feiwel and Friends ||
 * Noah, Trevor || //Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood// || Spiegel & Grau ||
 * Sepetys, Ruta || //Salt to the Sea// || Philomel Books ||
 * Shusterman, Neal || //Scythe// || Simon & Schuster BFYR ||
 * Thomas, Kara || //The Darkest Corners// || Delacorte Press ||
 * Yoon, Nicola || //The Sun is Also a Star// || Delacorte Press ||

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