Important Notice!  YRCA is undergoing some exciting changes in 2014 to further engage and give back to our participants. The first change comes with the nomination process, as we invited kids to help us short list the nominees. Kids chose the books they wanted to read for 2014 by voting online.

And the nominees for 2014 are:

Junior:
Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney
Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
13 Gifts by Wendy Mass
The worst years of my life by James Patterson
Darth paper strikes back by Tom Angleberger
The last council by Kazu Kibuishi
Big Nate out loud by Lincoln Peirce
The Medusa plot by Gordon Korman

Intermediate:
The son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
Between shades of gray by Ruta Sepetys
Scorpio races by Maggie Stiefvater
Okay for now by Gary D. Schmidt
The outcasts by John Flanagan
Legend by Marie Lu
Michael Vey: the prisoner of cell 25 by Richard Evans
This dark endeavor by Kenneth Oppel

Senior:
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children by Ransom Riggs
Angel: a maximum ride novel by James Patterson
Tiger's curse by Colleen Houck
What happened to goodbye by Sarah Dessen
Ruby red by Kerstin Gier
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Karma by Cathy Ostlere

2014 YRCA Nominees (PDF)