YRCA 2015

1. YRCA 2015 24 books. 40,000 votes. Who will win? You decide!

2. YRC-What?!

3. The oldest children’s choice award in North America • Started in 1940 by Harry Hartman, a publisher in Seattle • Alaska, Washington, Montana, Idaho, British Columbia and Alberta • Divided into three sections: • Junior (Gr. 4-6) • Intermediate (Gr. 7-9) • Senior (Gr. 10-12) • Young Reader’s Choice Award

4. How are books nominated? • Students, teachers, parents, and librarians can nominate titles for YRCA but only kids decide what titles are on the short list and the winners! • Nominated titles must have been published 3 years before the award year • The nominees list are published in March and voting begins the following April

5. Picked it. Read it. Loved it. Where do I vote?

6. Voting • You need to read or listen to at least two titles in a division to vote in that division. • Use your trading cards to remember your favourite books! • Submit your votes online in April at your school or at your public library branch. • You could win a Skype visit from a nominated author!

7. Library staff will be visiting in March to remind schools about voting, trading cards and all the great resources at the library! • We’ll be back!

8. Last year’s winners • Junior Division • Cabin Fever – Jeff Kinney • Intermediate Division • The Son of Neptune – Rick Riordan • Senior Division • Divergent – Veronica Roth • 40,511 Students voted – 20,793from Edmonton!

9. Previous winners…

10. Junior Division

11. “You can’t blend in when you were born to stand out.” • Wonder – R.J. Palacio • Also available: • eBook • Audiobook

12. “The word gifted has never been applied to a kid like Donovan Curtis.” • Ungifted – Gordon Korman • Also available: • Audiobook

13. “Some animals live privately, unwatched, but • that is not my life.” • The One and Only Ivan – Katherine Applegate • Also available: • eBook • eAudiobook • Audiobook

14. “It’s anyone’s guess who will actually survive • Expedition Survival.” • Chomp – Carl Hiaasen • Also available: • eBook • eAudiobook • Audiobook

15. “Boredom kills,” Mo suggests as Mr. Jesse’s cause of death. “I’ve had close brushes myself, during math.” • Three Times Lucky – Sheila Turnage • Also available: • eBook • eAudiobook • Audiobook

16. “Stories speak of the storyteller.” • Starry River of the Sky – Grace Lin • Also available: • eBook • Audiobook

17. “Why would someone say something was • stolen when it was never theirs to begin with?” • Who Could That Be at This Hour? – Lemony Snicket • Also available: • Audiobook • Large Print

18. Who Could That Be at This Hour? – Lemony Snicket

19. “Once upon a time my life was normal. Then a mirror in our basement ate us.” • Fairest of All – Sarah Mlynowski • Also available: • eBook • eAudiobook

20. Intermediate Division

21. “Keep it professional.” • Drama – Raina Telgemeier

27. “How can things ever get better when your world's been turned upside down?” • The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen • – Susin Nielsen-Fernlund • Also available: • eBook

28. “I've been waiting for you a long time, Alina" He said. "You and I are going to change the world.” • Shadow and Bone – Leigh Bardugo • Also available: • eBook

29. “She was supposed to forget him, but that was impossible.” • Son – Lois Lowry • Also available: • eBook • eAudiobook • Audiobook

30. “How far is too far to go for your only friend?” • Liar and Spy – Rebecca Stead • Also available: • eBook • eAudiobook • Audiobook

31. “It’s a story with no end in sight. And, like it or not, you’re in it.” • Bomb: The Race to Build, and Steal, the World’s Most Dangerous • Weapon – Steve Sheinkin • Also available: • eBook • eAudiobook • Audiobook

32. “Even in the future, the story begins with Once • Upon a Time.” • Cinder – Marissa Meyer • Also available: • eBook • eAudiobook • Audiobook

33. “There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve. Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.” • The Raven Boys – Maggie Stiefvater • Also available: • eBook • eAudiobook • Audiobook

34. Senior Division

35. “That’s the things about pain. It demands to be felt.” • The Fault in Our Stars – John Green • Also available: • eBook • Audiobook

40. “The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.” • Dodger – Terry Pratchett • Also available: • Audiobook • eAudiobook

41. ”There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will.” • Code Name Verity – Elizabeth Wein • Also available: • Audiobook

42. “Princes don’t come around every day, and • happy endings don’t grow on trees.” • Between The Lines – Jodi Picoult • Also available: • Audiobook • eAudiobook

43. “I want to have the heart and mind of a queen,” she whispered. “I want it more than anything. But I’m only pretending. I can’t find the feeling of it inside me.” • Bitterblue– Kristin Cashore • Also available: • eBook

44. “I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken.” • Seraphina– Rachel Hartman • Also available: • Audiobook • eAudiobook

45. “True love is usually the most inconvenient • kind.” • The Selection – Kiera Cass • Also available: • eBook • eAudiobook

46. “Why be the sheep when you can be the wolf?” • Grave Mercy – Robin LaFevers • Also available: • eBook • eAudiobook • Audiobook

47. AnyQuestions?

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