2013 Illinois Rebecca Caudill Award

The 2013 Rebecca Caudill
Young Readers’ Book Award

Naomi Mellendorf
Library Information Specialist
Robert Crown Elementary School
Wauconda Community Unit School District #118
Wauconda, Illinois

About the RCYRBA
The Rebecca Caudill Young
Readers' Book Award (RCYRBA) is
a program sponsored by the Illinois
Association of Teachers of English,
the Illinois Reading Council, and the
Illinois School Library Media
Association. The program is named
after children's author Rebecca
Caudill, who lived and worked in
Urbana, Illinois. Books honored by
this award are selected by a popular
vote taken of students between
grades 4-8 in the State of Illinois.
Naomi Mellendorf, District #118, December 2012

Anything but Typical
By Nora Raleigh Baskin

Jason, an autistic boy who
wants to become a writer,
relates what his life is like
as he tries to make sense
of his world.


Black Radishes
By Susan Lynn Meyer

Gustave has been forced to move from
Paris to the countryside after his
parents decided it was not safe for
Jews to live in the city during World
War II. He meets a Catholic girl named
Nicole and together they devise a plan
to rescue his friend and family
members from the Nazi occupied
territory.


Born to Fly
by Michael Ferrari

In 1942, Bird McGill is obsessed with
flying. She withholds her judgment while
her classmates maintain that the new
Japanese American student, Kenji Fujita,
is a spy. She realizes Kenji is just as
American as she is when they find
evidence of real spy activity during their
research for a class project.


Countdown
By Deborah Wiles

As Franny Chapman deals with
drama at home and with her best
friend in 1962, she tries to
understand the larger problems in
the world after President Kennedy
announces that Russia is sending
nuclear missiles to Cuba.


Dark Life
by Kat Falls

Ty has always lived on the ocean floor
and one day joins Topside girl Gemma
in the frontier's underworld. Together,
they seek to stop outlaws who threaten
his home and learn that the government
may pose an even greater threat.


The Graveyard Book
By Neil Gaiman

The orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is
taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard
as a child of eighteen months. He is
raised lovingly and carefully to the age of
eighteen years by a community of ghosts
and otherworldly creatures.


Inside Out and Back Again
By Thanhha Lai

Through a series of poems, a
young girl chronicles the life-
changing year of 1975, when she,
her mother, and her brothers leave
Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.


Love, Aubrey
By Suzanne LaFleur
While living with her Gram in
Vermont, Aubrey writes letters as a
way of dealing with losing her father
and sister in a car accident, and then
being abandoned by her grief-
stricken mother.


Ninth Ward
By Jewell Parker Rhodes

Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community
in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. She
doesn't have a fancy house like her
uptown family or lots of friends like the
other kids on her street. But what she
does have is Mama Ya-Ya, her fiercely
loving caretaker and when Mama Ya-
Ya's visions show a powerful
hurricane--Katrina--fast approaching,
it's up to Lanesha to help them both
survive the storm.


One Crazy Summer
By Rita Williams-Garcia
In the summer of 1968, after traveling from
Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a
month with the mother they barely know,
Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive
to a cold welcome as they discover that their
mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is
resentful of the intrusion of their visit and
wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther
summer camp.


Out of My Mind
By Sharon M. Draper

Melody is not like most people. She cannot
walk or talk, but she has a photographic
memory and can remember every detail of
everything she has ever experienced. But
Melody refuses to be defined by cerebral
palsy. And she’s determined to let everyone
know it…somehow.


Shooting Kabul
By N.H. Senzai

Escaping from Taliban-controlled
Afghanistan in the summer of 2001,
Fadi and his family immigrate to the
San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi
schemes to return to the Pakistani
refugee camp where his little sister
was accidentally left behind.


Smile
By Raina Telgemeier

The author relates, in graphic form, her
experiences after she injured her two
front teeth and had to have surgeries
and wear embarrassing braces and
headgear, all while dealing with the
trials and tribulations of school.


The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
By Tom Angleberger

Tommy and his friends describe
their interactions with a paper finger
puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird
classmate Dwight, as they try to
figure out whether or not the puppet
can really predict the future.
Includes instructions for making
Origami Yoda.


Turtle in Paradise
By Kekla Magoon
In 1935, when her mother gets a job
housekeeping for a woman who does
not like children, Turtle is sent to stay
with relatives she has never met in far
away Key West, Florida and finds
herself coming out of the shell she's
spent her life building.


The Year Money Grew on Trees
By Aaron Hawkins

In early 1980s New Mexico,
Jackson Jones recruits his cousins
and sisters to help tend an elderly
neighbor's neglected apple orchard
for the chance to make big money
and, perhaps, to own the orchard.


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