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Iowa Teen Choice Award Winners 2008 Nominees: The Perfect Shot, Alphin Code Talker, Bruchac Runner, Deuker The People of Sparks, DuPrau Stumptown Kid, Gorman Flush,
Hiaasen Travel Team, Lupica Airborn, Oppel Eragon Paolini Small Steps,
Sachar Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie, Sonneblick Milkweed, Spinelli So B. It, Weeks Uglies, Westerfield Elsewhere, Zevin
2007
Sonya Sones: One of Those Hideous Books Where the
Mother Dies
2006
Sonya Sones: What My Mother Doesn't Know
2005 Anthony Horowitz: Stormbreaker
2004 Ann Brashares: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
2003 Jerry Spinelli: Stargirl
2002 Gary Paulsen: The
Transall Saga
2001 Beatrice Sparks: Annie's Baby
2000
Gail Carson Levine: Ella Enchanted
1999 Jerry Spinelli: Crash!
1998 Gary Paulsen:
Brian's Winter
1997 Gary Paulsen: Harris and Me
1996 Caroline Cooney: What Ever
Happened to Janie?
1995 Michael Crichton: Jurassic
Park
1994 Ryan White: My Own Story
1993
Caroline Cooney: Face on the Milk Carton
1992 Lois Duncan: Don't Look Behind You
1991
Norma Fox Mazer: Silver
1990 Gary Paulsen: Hatchet
Iowa Children's Choice Award Winners
Click here for ready-made books with the 2007 Children's Choice Book nominees. (Pdf form)
2006-2007 Winner: The World According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney
Iowa Children's Choice Awards Link
- Because of Anya by Margaret Haddix
- Caleb's Story by Patricia MacLachlan
- Doing Time Online by Jan Siebold
- Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber
Billows by Barry Denenberg
- The Edison Mystery by Dan Gutman
- The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs by Cynthia DeFelice
- Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
- My Chimp Friday: The Nana Banana Chronicles
by Hester Mundis
- The Mysterious Matter of I.M. Fine by Diane
Stanley
- No More Nasty by Amy MacDonald
- Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Giff
- The Promise by Jackie Koller
- Saving Lilly by Peg Kehret
- A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson
by Michelle Green
- Uncle Daddy by Ralph Fletcher
- Vampire State Building by Elizabeth Levy
- A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements
- Wishes, Kisses and Pigs by Betsy Hearne
Edgar Awards for mysteries
Recommendations:
The Princess Diaries books by Meg Cabot
Small Steps by Louis Sachar (the follow-up to Holes)
Peter and the Starcatchers: a
series by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson Stormbreaker (and all the Alex Rider books) a series by Anthony
Horowitz Any kids' mystery by Willo Davis Roberts

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