2006 VYR Archives

2006 Virginia Young Readers

Primary List

Actual Size by Steve Jenkins Houghton (Mifflin 2004)
Baghead by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Knopf 2002)
How Groundhog's Garden Grew by Lynne Cherry   (Scholastic 2003)
Hungry Hen by Richard Waring (HarperCollins 2001)
Jam and Jelly by Holly and Nellie by Gloria Whelan Sleeping (Bear Press 2002)
The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman by Darcy Pattison   (Harcourt 2003)
Little Flower by Gloria Rand (Henry Holt 2002)
The Monster Ate My Peas by Danny Schnitzlein    (Peachtree 2001)
Muldoon by Pamela Duncan Edwards and Henry Cole (Hyperion 2002)
Straight to the Pole by Kevin O’Malley (Walker & Co. 2003)

Elementary List

Boxes for Katje by Candace Fleming (2003 Farrar Straus & Giroux)
Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia by Barbara O’Conner (2003 FS&G)
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins (2003 Scholastic)
Grover G. Graham and Me by Mary Quattlebaum (2001 Random House)
Hana’s Suitcase by Karen Levine (2003 Albert Whitman)
Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo (2003 Scholastic)
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson (2003 Putnam)
Mysterious Matter of I.M. Fine by Diane Stanley (2001 HarperCollins)
Say What? By Margaret Peterson Haddix ( 2004 Simon and Schuster)
Snowed in With Grandmother Silk by Carol Fenner (2003 Dial)

Middle School List

Eragon by Christopher Paolini (2003 Random House)
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup by Sharon Creech (2003 Joanna Cotler Books, HarperCollins)
A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass (2003   Little, Brown and Company)
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli (2003 Random)
Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes (2003   HarperCollins)
Riding the Flume by Patricia Curtis Pfitsch (2002 Simon and Schuster)
River Between Us by Richard Peck (2003   Penguin Putnam)
So B. It by Sarah Weeks (2004   HarperCollins)
Wish List by Eoin Colfer (2003 Hyperion Books)
The Young Man and the Sea by Rodman Philbrick  ( 2004  Scholastic)

High School List

Leaving Eden by Annie D. LeClair (2003 Random House)

Cuba 15 by Nancy Osa (2003 Delacorte Press)

Hanging on to Max by Margaret Bechard (2002 Simon and Schuster)

Fat Kid Rules the World by K. L. Going (2003 Putnam)

17: A Novel in Prose Poems by Liz Rosenberg (2002 Cricket Books)

The Year of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty (2004 Scholastic)

Double Helix by Nancy Werlin (2004 Dial)

What Happened to Lani Garver? By Carol Plum-Ucci (2002 Harcourt)

Zoya’s Story: an Afghan Woman’s Struggle for Freedom by Zoya, with John Follain and Rita Cristofari (2003 HarperCollins)

Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan (2003 Bloomsbury)

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