Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award

Template:Short description The Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (RCYRBA) is an annual award given to the author of the book voted most outstanding by students in grades four through eight in participating Illinois schools and libraries. It is named in honor of children's author Rebecca Caudill, who lived and worked in Urbana, Illinois, and has been presented annually since 1988. It is administered by a volunteer board of directors and presented in cooperation with the Illinois Association of Teachers of English, the Illinois Reading Council, and the Illinois School Library Media Association.

Books honored by this award are selected by a popular vote taken of students between the fourth and eighth grades in the State of Illinois. Books are nominated two years in advance of a selection year by students, teachers, and school and public librarians. The nominations are narrowed down to twenty choices by the 70-80 member RCYRBA Evaluator's Committee, and put forward as that year's "Master List." Participating schools and public libraries then collect votes from children starting during the fall of the prior year, up through the end of February in the awarding year, and the award winner is announced each March.

Winners

Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award winners

Year	Author	Title
1988	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
1989	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
1990	Template:Sortname	Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story
1991	Template:Sortname	Matilda
1992	Template:Sortname	Number the Stars
1993	Template:Sortname	Maniac Magee
1994	Template:Sortname	Shiloh
1995	Template:Sortname	Flight Number 116 is Down
1996	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
1997	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
1998	Template:Sortname	Mick Harte Was Here
1999	Template:Sortname	Frindle
2000	Template:Sortname	Ella Enchanted
2001	Template:Sortname	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2002	Template:Sortname	Holes
2003	Template:Sortname	Fever, 1793
2004	Template:Sortname	Stormbreaker
2005	Template:Sortname	Hoot
2006	Template:Sortname	Eragon
2007	Template:Sortname	So B. It
2008	Template:Sortname	Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie
2009	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
2010	Template:Sortname	All the Lovely Bad Ones
2011	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
2012	Template:Sortname	Powerless
2013	Template:Sortname	Smile
2014	Template:Sortname	Wonder
2015	Template:Sortname	Legend
2016	Template:Sortname	Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25
2017	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
2018	Template:Sortname	Template:Sortname
2019	Template:Sortname	Ghost
2020	Template:Sortname	Refugee
2021	Template:Sortname	Front Desk
2022	Template:Sortname	Template:Sort
2023	Template:Sortname and Omar Mohamed	When Stars Are Scattered

External links

• Template:Official website
• Illinois School Library Media Association – point of entry to all four statewide reader's choice book awards
• Meet Rebecca Caudill (Champaign Public Library)
• Meet Caudill's daughter (Champaign Public Library)