1	2007 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award Bonita Slovinski RCYRBA Chair Lincoln Jr. High School Naperville CUSD203 Naperville, IL www.rcyrba.org
2	Chasing Vermeer Chasing Vermeer Blue Balliett When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
3	Peter and the Starcatchers Peter and the Starcatchers Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson An orphan boy named Peter and his mysterious new friend, Molly, overcome bands of pirates and thieves in their quest to keep a fantastical secret safe and save the world from evil.
4	Gregor the Overlander Gregor the Overlander Suzanne Collins When eleven-year-old Gregor and his sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.
5	Heartbeat Heartbeat Sharon Creech Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life in the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.
6	Red Kayak Red Kayak Priscilla Cummings Living near the water on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy that tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong.
7	The Sea of Trolls The Sea of Trolls Nancy Farmer After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls.
8	Last Shot A Final Four Mystery Last Shot A Final Four Mystery John Feinstein After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.
9	Once Upon a Marigold Once Upon a Marigold Jean Ferris A young man with a mysterious past and a penchant for inventing things leave the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy princess he has loved from afar, and discovers a plot against her and her father.
10	Ida B… and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World Ida B… Katherine Hannigan Fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family’s apple orchard, until circumstances force her parents to sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
11	The Star of Kazan The Star of Kazan Eva Ibbotson After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a women claiming to her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.
12	Hana’s Suitcase Hana’s Suitcase Karen Levine A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana’s suitcase was sent to her.
13	Shackleton’s Stowaway Shackleton’s Stowaway Victoria McKernan A fictionalized account of the adventures of eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow, who stowed away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship Endurance was crushed by ice, endured many hardships, including the loss of toes of his left foot to frostbite, during the nearly two-year return journey across sea and ice.
14	Hachiko Waits Hachiko Waits Lesléa Newman Professor Ueno’s loyal Akita, Hachiko, waits for him at the train station every afternoon, and even after the professor unexpectedly dies while at work, Hachiko faithfully continues to await his return until the day the dog dies. Based on a true story.
15	Airborn Airborn Kenneth Oppel Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth’s Surface.
16	Thin Wood Walls Thin Wood Walls David Patneaude When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Joe Hanada and his family face growing prejudice, eventually being torn away from their home and sent to a relocation camp in California, even as his older brother joins the United States Army to fight in the war.
17	Becoming Naomi León Becoming Naomi León Pam Muñoz Ryan When Naomi’s absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and younger brother in search of her father.
18	Secrets of a Civil War Submarine Solving the Mysteries of the H. L. Hunley Secrets of a Civil War Submarine Sally M. Walker An account of the history, recovery, exhumation, and conservation of the submarine, Hunley, with maps, primary sources, and photos. Includes reconstructions by a forensic artist of the entire crew based upon the skulls recovered from the vessel.
19	So B. It So B. It Sarah Weeks After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.
20	Each Little Bird That Sings Each Little Bird that Sings Deborah Wiles Comfort Snowberger is well acquainted with death since her family runs the funeral parlor in their small southern town, but even so the ten-year-old is unprepared for the series of heart-wrenching events that begins on the first day of Easter vacation with the sudden death of her beloved great-uncle Edisto.
21	Locomotion Locomotion Jacqueline Woodson In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.
22	For additional information about the RCYRBA program, visit our website at www.rcyrba.org or Email me at bonitaslo@wowway.com bslovinski@ncusd203.org