Sunshine State Young Readers Award
Grades 6—8
The Anybodies by N.E. Bode
Code Orange by Caroline B. Cooney
Under the Same Sky by Cynthia DeFelice
Chicken Boy by Frances O’Rourke Dowell
The Old Willis Place by Mary Downing Hahn
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Jackie’s Wild Seattle by Will Hobbs
Gossamer by Lois Lowry
Heat by Mike Lupica
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
House of the Red Fish by Graham Salisbury
Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan
Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 by Andrea White
The Ravenmaster’s Secret by Elvira Woodruff
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
Skateboarding Streetstyle by Joel Shoemaker
Holes by Louis Sachar
Small Stepsby Louis Sachar (sequel to Holes)
When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park
Max the Mighty by Rod Philbrick
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
Sounder by William H. Armstrong
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Chasing the Falconers (Book 1: On the Run) by Gordon Korman
Because of Winn Dixie by Kate Di Camillo
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
The Capture (Book 1: Guardians of Ga’Hoole) by Kathryn Lasky
Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Among the Hidden by Margaret Haddox
8th Grade
The Teacher’s Funeral by Richard Peck
Ties that Bind, Ties that Break by Lensey Namioka
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
Energy by Jack Challoner
Hoops by Walter Myers
Petey by Ben Mikaelsen
Private Captain by Matry Crisp
Biodiversity by Dorothy Hinshaw
Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
Eva Journey to the River Sea by Ibbotson
The Eyes of the Amaryllis by Natalie Babbitt
How Tia Lola Came to Visit/Stay by Julia Alvarez
Izzy Willy-Nilly by Cynthia Voight
Jim Thorpe: Original All-American by Joseph Bruchac
Lord of the Land of Death by Julia Alvarez
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
The Poet Slave of Cuba Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano by Margarita Engle
Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan
Tex by S.E. Hinton
Taking Sides by Gary Soto
The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
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