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2010 Young Reader's Choice Award Nominees
These guides will help you begin the discussion. If you're hungry, some also provide snack suggestions! Warning! Some guides contain key elements of the plot. Do not read if you don't want to know what happens! Check out the official YRCA website for more details.
Junior Division
- The Candy Shop by Brandon Mull
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
- Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Igraine the Brave by Corneila Funke
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
- Marley: A Dog Like No Other by John Grogan
- The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
- No Talking by Andrew Clements
Intermediate Division
- Alchemyst: Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
- Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
- Zen and the Art of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick
- Peak by Roland Smith
- Plain Janes by Cecil Castelucci
- Schooled by Gordan Korman
- The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex
- Skullduggery Pleasant by Derek Landry
Senior Division
- Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
- Deadline by Chris Crutcher
- Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
- Enter Three Witches by Caroline Cooney
- Mistik Lake by Martha Brooks
- Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
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