The winners for this year’s Young Reader’s Choice Awards have been announced. This year the votes went to Kate DiCamillo’s The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, and Stephenie Meyer’s New Moon.
The Young Reader’s Choice Awards are interesting for several reasons. The nominated books all have to have been in publication for three years, the nominees are submitted by students, librarians and parents who live in the Pacific Northwest, and only 4th–12th grade students living in the Pacific Northwest can vote.
I have not read any of the winners this year, and I’m a bit confused that New Moon won since the rules state that sequels in a series can’t be nominated. It may be that the rule has been updated but not changed on the Web site.
I look forward to putting the winners as well as other nominees on my reading list this summer. Find the complete list of nominees for this year and winners and nominees in past years at the Young Reader’s Choice Awards Web site.