Below you will find a complete list of all the nominated Norwood Young Readers Award (NYRA) Books since this reading incentive program was first created in 2004-2005. These are terrific books that represent a variety of genres and reading levels. Look for these books in the Cleveland Library, or at the Morrill Memoria Library. I hope you enjoy them.
Norwood Young Readers Award Nominated Books
NYRA 2010-2011
11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
Lost and Found by Andrew Clements
Savvy by Ingrid Law
Say What? By Margaret Peterson Haddix
Scat by Carl Hiassen
Swindle by Gordon Korman
NYRA 2009-2010
Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It by Sundee Tucker Frazier
City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
Double Identity by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The End of the Beginning by Avi
Eoin Colfer’s Legend of …Spud Murphy by Eoin Coler
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Night of the Howling Dogs by Graham Salisbury
On the Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck
Out Standing in My Field by Patrick Jennings
Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements
Rules by Cynthia Lord
Year of the Dog by Grace Lin
NYRA 2008-2009
The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling
Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia by Barbara O’Connor
Free Baseball by Sue Corbett
The Get Rick Quick Club by Dan Gutman
The Ghost of Cutler Creek by Cynthia Defelice
The Liberation of Gabriel King by Kelly L. Going
Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief by Wendelin Van Draanen
The Thing about Georgie by Lisa Graff
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
Whales on Stilts by M.T. Anderson
Punished by David Lubar
NYRA 2007-2008
Attack of the Tagger (Shredderman 2) by Wendelin Van Draanen
The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko, Private Eye by Bruce Hale
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
Freddy in Peril: Book Two in the Golden Hamster Saga by Dietlof Reiche
Heat by Mike Lupica
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by Daniel Pinkwater
Lunch Money by Andrew Clements
The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl
No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
Roxie and the Hooligans by Phyllis Reynods Naylor
Stealing Thunder by Mary Casanova
Willow Run by Patricia Reilly Giff
NYRA 2006-2007
Amber Brown is Not a Crayon by Paula Danziger
The Elevator Family by Douglas Evans
The Graduation of Jake Moon by Barbara Park
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
Regarding the Sink: Where, Oh Where, Did Waters Go by Kate Klise
The Report Card by Andrew Clement
Shredderman: Secret Identity by Wendelin Van Draanen
Something Upstairs by Avi
Stone Fox by John Gardiner
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleishchman
NYRA 2005-2006
Bunnicula by Deborah Howe
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
How Tia Lola Came to Visit/Stay by Julia Alvarez
Jackie and Me by Dan Guttman
A Long Way from Chicago: a Novel in Stories by Richard Peck
Maniac Magee: a Novel by Jerry Spinelli
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Regarding the Fountain: a Tale, in Letters, of Liars and Leaks by Kate Klise
The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood
Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel
Skinnybones by Barbara Park
NYRA 2004-2005
Adaline Falling Star by Mary Pope Osborne
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Frindle by Andrew Clements
Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
The Library Card by Jerry Spinelli
The Imp That Ate My Homework by Laurence Yep
Mick Harte was Here by Barbara Park
Poppy by Avi
Rowan of Rin by Emily Rodda
Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
Viking It & Liking It by Jon Scieszka
NYRA 2010-2011 Book of the Year: 11 Birthdays
NYRA 2009-2010 Book of the Year: The Lightning Thief
NYRA 2008-2009 Book of the Year: Clementine
NYRA 2007-2008 Book of the Year: No More Dead Dogs
NYRA 2006-2007 Book of the Year: Regarding the Sink: Where, Oh Where, Did Waters Go
NYRA 2005-2006 Book of the Year: Maniac Magee
NYRA 2004-2005 Book of the Year: Mick Harte Was Here