Rebecca Caudill Award

The Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award is an annual award given to the author of the book voted most outstanding by students in grades 4-8 in participating Illinois schools. The award is named in honor of Rebecca Caudill who lived and wrote in Urbana, Illinois, for nearly 50 years.

Students must have read or heard 3 books from the Master List in order to be eligible to vote in February, 2012.

Master List - 2012

--One-Handed Catch by M.J. Auch

--Masterpiece by Elise Broach

--All the Broken Pieces by Ann E. Burg

-- Wild Things by Clay Carmichael

--The Girl Who Threw Butterflies by Mick Cochrane

--Powerless by Matthew Cody

--The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly

--Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

--The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon

--Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass

--Greetings from Nowhere by Barbara O'Connor

--Heart of a Shepherd by Roseanne Parry

--Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen

--The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg                            by Rodman Philbrick

--The Magic Thief by Sarah Prineas

--Knucklehead:...Growing up Scieszka by Jon Scieszka

--Peak by Roland Smith

--Flygirl by Sherri Smith

--Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

NOTE: Not all of the Rebecca Caudill books are available in the L.C.S. Library