VIRGINIA READERS' CHOICE
PAST WINNERS
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School Year |
Primary |
Elementary |
Middle |
High |
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1981-1982 |
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Island of the Blue Dolphins-O’Dell |
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1982-1983 |
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Bridge to Terabithia-Paterson |
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1983-1984 |
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The Westing Game-Raskin |
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1984-1985 |
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The Outsiders-Hinton |
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1985-1986 |
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Superfudge-Blume |
The Cat Ate My Gym Suit-Danziger |
The Third Eye-Hunter |
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1986-1987 |
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My Friend the Vampire-Sommer-Bodenburg |
The Curse of the Blue Figurine-Bellairs |
The Man in the Woods-Wells |
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1987-1988 |
In a Dark, Dark Room-Schwartz |
Indian in the Cupboard-Banks |
Ghost in My Soup-Miller |
Izzy, Willy-Nilly-Voigt |
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1988-1989 |
Heckedy Peg-Wood |
Wait Till Helen Comes-Hahn |
The Other Side of Dark-Nixon |
The Face at the Edge of the World-Bunting |
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1989-1990 |
The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth-Cole |
Christina’s Ghost-Wright |
Hatchet-Paulsen |
Wolf Rider: A Tale of Terror-Avi |
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1990-1991 |
Two bad Ants-Van Allsburg |
Matilda-Dahl |
Good Night, Mr. Tom-Magorian |
Say Goodnight, Gracie-Deaver |
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1991-1992 |
The Great White Man-Eating Shark-Mahy |
Doll in the Garden-Hahn |
A Family Apart-Nixon |
Don’t Look Behind You-Duncan |
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1992-1993 |
Talking Eggs-San Souci |
Exploring the Titanic-Ballard |
Maniac Magee-Spinelli |
Plague Year-Tolan |
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1993-1994 |
Beware of Boys-Blundell |
Ten Kids, No Pets-Martin |
Dead Man in Indian Creek-Hahn |
How Could You Do It, Diane?-Pevsner |
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1994-1995 |
Rough-Faced Girl-Martin |
Ghost Cadet-Alphin |
Flight #116 Is Down-Cooney |
Jumping the Nail-Bunting |
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1995-1996 |
Dogzilla-Pilkey |
A Haunting in Williamsburg-Lou Kassem |
The Giver-Lowry |
Just Like Martin-Davis |
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1996-1997 |
Copycat-Brown |
Time for Andrew-Hahn |
Walk Two Moons-Creech |
Tears of A Tiger-Draper |
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1997-1998 |
Suddenly!-McNaughton |
Fig Pudding-Fletcher |
The Ear, The Eye, and the Arm-Farmer |
Daughter of the Stars-Whitney |
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1998-1999 |
My Little Sister Ate One Hare-Grossman |
Earthquake Terror-Kehret |
Crash-Spinelli |
The China Garden-Berry |
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1999-2000 |
Red Racer-Wood |
The Junkyard Dog-Tamar |
Spirit Seeker-Nixon |
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul-Canfield |
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2000-2001 |
Akiak, A Tale from the Iditarod-Blake |
The Ghost of Fossil Glen-DeFelice |
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key-Gantos |
If You Come Softly-Woodson |
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2001-2002 |
Hooway for Wodney Wat-Lester |
The Secret of Platform 13-Ibbotson |
Blackwater-Bunting |
A Door Near Here-Quarles |
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2002-2003 |
The Soccer Mom From Outer Space-Saltzberg |
Because of Winn-Dixie-DiCamillo |
No More Dead Dogs-Korman |
Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging-Rennison |
| 2003-2004 |
The Recess Queen
by Alexis O’Neill, illustrated by Laura Huliska-Beith (Scholastic) |
Summer of Riley by Eve Bunting (HarperCollins) |
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen (Random House) |
The Pact: Three
Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, George Jenkins (Riverhead) |
| 2004-2005 | Eppossumondas by Colleen Salley | 7 X 9 = Trouble by Claudia Mills | Loser by Jerry Spinelli | The House Next Door by R.K. Cusick |
| 2005-2006 | The Monster Who Ate My Peas by Danny Schnitzlein | Say What? By Margaret Peterson Haddix | Eragon by Christopher Paolini | The Year of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty |
| 2006-2007 |
Guji Guji by ChihbyYuan Chen |
Last Holiday Concert by Andrew Clements | The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer |
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult |
