The Louisiana Young Readers Choice Award (LYRC) is a reading enrichment program, encouraging young people to read and to decide on which of the books they read should win the award. For more details and how to vote see LYRC on the State Library of Louisiana’s site. There are three separate age group categories, last time we looked at the 3-5th grade list.
(drum roll please) Here are the nominees for 6-8th grade:
City of the Dead (The Haunting of Derek Stone, #1) by Tony Abbott
Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior by Chris Bradford
Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn
Dormia by Jake Halpern and Peter Kulawinski
Dying to Meet You by Kate Klise
Invisible I: The Amanda Project by Stella Lennon
Wings by Jason Lethcoe
11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
Brand-New Emily by Ginger Rue
Jolted: Newton Starker’s Rules for Survival by Arthur Slade
A Truth Worth Tellin’ by Toni Teepell
Malice by Chris Wooding
