The Oregon Reader's Choice Awards (ORCA) Committee has just announced the first-ever nominees for the award! Voting by Oregon students will begin next spring.
Intermediate Division (Grades 7-9)
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go by Dale Basye
Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor
London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Nation by Terry Pratchett
Elephant Run by Roland Smith
After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
Senior Division (Grades 10-12)
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Paper Towns by John Green
Dark Dude by Oscar Hijuilos
The Direputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
Junior Division (Grades 4-6)
Masterpiece by Elise Broach
Found by Magaret Peterson Haddix
Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon and Dean Hale
The Stonekeeper: Amulet 1 by Kibuishi
Savvy by Ingrid Law
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things by Lenore Look
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry
Knucklehead by Jon Scieszka
