Award of the Week: Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader’s Choice

Since 1940 young readers in the Pacific Northwest have been participating in the Young Reader’s Choice Award (YRCA) . The award was established by Harry Hartman, a Seattle bookseller, who believed every student should have an opportunity to select a book that gives him or her pleasure. The Young Reader’s Choice Award is sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Library Association and continues to be the longest-running children’s choice book award. It is also the only international award with young readers in both the United States and Canada participating in the program.
  
  
  
 

2018 Award Winners
Junior Division (Grades 4-6)
	Roller Girl By: Victoria Jamieson A graphic novel adventure about a girl who discovers roller derby right as she and her best friend are growing apart.
Intermediate Division (Grades 7-9)
	The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard) By: Rick Riordan Magnus Chase has seen his share of trouble. Ever since that terrible night two years ago when his mother told him to run, he has lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, staying one step ahead of the police and truant officers. One day, Magnus learns that someone else is trying to track him down—his uncle Randolph, a man his mother had always warned him about. When Magnus tries to outmaneuver his uncle, he falls right into his clutches. Randolph starts rambling about Norse history and Magnus’s birthright: a weapon that has been lost for thousands of years.
Senior Division (Grades 10-12)
	Red Queen By: Victoria Aveyard Mare Barrow’s world is divided by blood — those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. As Mare is drawn further into the Silver world, she risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard — a growing Red rebellion — even as her heart tugs her in an impossible direction. One wrong move can lead to her death, but in the dangerous game she plays, the only certainty is betrayal.