YRCA

YRCA stands for Young Reader’s Choice Award and is an award that was started in 1940 by a Seattle bookseller. Participants are children in grades 4-12 in Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, and Washington. While there is no award given to the winning authors, they DO get the prestige of having their book selected as the winner by their target audience. Voting is done only by the children, but books can be nominated for inclusion by anyone as long as they were published three years prior to the award.

There are three divisions within the award: Junior (Grades 4-6), Intermediate (Grades 7-9), and Senior (Grades 10-12) 

Kids can vote in any category they like, as long as they've read or listened to at least one book in that category.

Voting Rules

Voting is open to students in grades 4 - 12. Students can vote in any or all three divisions (one time only).   

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Check out the new round of YRCA nominees below!

YRCA 2024 Nominees:

YRCA Junior Division

The accidental apprentice

Foody, Amanda, author

Finding Junie Kim

Oh, Ellen, author

The last cuentista

Higuera, Donna Barba, author

The lion of Mars

Holm, Jennifer L., author.

Pony

Palacio, R. J., author

Rez dogs

Bruchac, Joseph, 1942- author

Starfish

Fipps, Lisa, author

Unplugged

Korman, Gordon, author

YRCA Intermediate Division

Blackout : a novel

The bones of ruin

Raughley, Sarah, author

Me (Moth)

McBride, Amber, author

Six crimson cranes

Lim, Elizabeth, author

A snake falls to earth

Little Badger, Darcie, 1987- author

Tokyo ever after

Jean, Emiko, author

Too bright to see

Lukoff, Kyle, author

Zara Hossain is here

Khan, Sabina, 1968- author

YRCA Senior Division

Ace of spades

Àbíké-Íyímídé, Faridah, author

Better than the movies

Painter, Lynn, author

Concrete rose

Thomas, Angie, author

Firekeeper's daughter

Boulley, Angeline, author

Iron widow

Zhao, Xiran Jay, author

Last night at the Telegraph Club

Lo, Malinda, author.

The prison healer

Noni, Lynette, author

You'll be the death of me

McManus, Karen M., author

Questions? 

Check out the YRCA FAQ Sheet