Past CYRM Reading Contests
Every year, great books in the California Young Reader Medal contest are added to this list. How many of them have you read?
Remember that the nominees and winners from past years are just as great to read as the most recent nominees and winners!
- Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
- The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart -- the winner!
- Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
Middle School Category:
- Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
- The Jigsaw Jungle by Kristin Levine -- the winner!
- The Length of a String by Elissa Brent Weissman
For the nominated books in other categories, see the CYRM Nominees page.
- The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser
- Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks
- Restart by Gordon Korman -- the winner!
Middle School Category:
- Sweep by Jonathan Auxier
- Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart -- the winner!
- Hope in the Holler by Lisa Lewis Tyre
For the nominated and winning books in other categories, see the CYRM Nominees page.
Intermediate Category:
- The Detective's Assistant by Kate Hannigan
- The Losers Club by Andrew Clements
- The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker-Bradley -- the winner!
Middle School Category:
- It Ain't So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas
- Refugee by Alan Gratz -- the winner!
- When Friendship Followed Me Home by Paul Griffin
For the nominated and winning books in other categories, see the CYRM Nominees page.
Intermediate Category:
- Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
- The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley -- the winner!
- Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate
Middle School Category:
- Ms. Bixby's Last Day by John David Anderson
- Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan -- the winner!
- Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
For the nominated and winning books in other categories, see the CYRM Nominees page.
Intermediate Category:
- Dash by Kirby Larson
- Ms. Rapscott's Girls by Elise Primavera
- Pax by Sara Pennypacker -- the winner!
Middle School Category:
- All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie Connor
- A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen -- the winner!
- Tesla's Attic by Neal Shusterman & Eric Elfman
For the nominated and winning books in other categories, see the CYRM Nominees page.
Intermediate Category:
- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein -- the winner!
- The Real Boy by Anne Ursu
- Rump by Liesl Shurtliff
Middle School Category:
- Hold Fast by Blue Balliett
- Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger -- the winner!
- Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere by Julie T. Lamana
For the nominated and winning books in other categories, see the CYRM Nominees page.
Intermediate Category:
- A Dog Called Homeless by Sarah Lean -- the winner!
- True (...Sort of) by Katherine Hannigan
- Wildwood by Colin Meloy
Middle School Category:
- Dogtag Summer by Elizabeth Partridge -- the winner!
- Doll Bones by Holly Black
- Ghost Hawk by Susan Cooper
For the nominated and winning books in other categories, see the CYRM Nominees page.
Intermediate Category:
- Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George
- Wild Wings by Gill Lewis and Yuta Onada
- Wonder by R.J. Palacio -- the winner!
Middle School Category:
- Bluefish by Pat Schmatz
- Chained by Lynne Kelly
- The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen -- the winner!
For the nominated and winning books in other categories, see the CYRM Nominees page.
Intermediate Category:
- A Next for Celest by Henry Cole
- Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer Holm
- The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann... the winner!
Middle School Category:
- Faith, Hope, and Ivy June by Phyllis Naylor Reynolds
- One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
- Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick... the winner!
For the nominated and winning books in other categories, see the CYRM Nominees page.
Intermediate Category:
- Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff
- The Giant-Slayer by Iain Lawrence -- the winner!
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Middle School Category:
- Invisible Lines by Mary Amato
- Wild Things by Clay Carmichael
- Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper -- the winner!
For the nominated and winning books in other categories, see the CYRM Nominees page.
Intermediate Category:
- Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning by Danette Haworth -- the winner!
- Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School and Other Scary Things by Lenore Look
- The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis by Barbara O'Conner
Middle School Category:
- Revolution is Not a Dinner Party: A Novel by Ying Chang Compestine
- Waiting for Normal by Leslie Conner
- Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass -- the winner!
For the nominated and winning books in other categories, see the CYRM Nominees page.