# Young Hoosier Book Award reading list

**41** books referenced by Young Hoosier Book Award, a reading-program curriculum framework spanning applicable K-12 grade levels.

The Young Hoosier Book Award is Indiana's statewide reading program, administered by the Indiana Library Federation since 1975. Students read from an annual master list and vote each year for their favorite title across three divisions — Picture Book (K-3), Intermediate (grades 4-6), and Middle Grade (grades 6-8). Its winners are read in Indiana classrooms and libraries statewide and span the most-loved middle-grade titles, from Hatchet and Shiloh to Wonder, The Lightning Thief, and New Kid.

**Framework type:** reading-program
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**Primary source:** https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf (cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
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## Young Hoosier Book Award reading list

- [11 Birthdays](https://readinglist.school/book/11-birthdays) by Wendy Mass _(Grades 3–5)_
- [A Boy Called Bat](https://readinglist.school/book/a-boy-called-bat) by Elana K. Arnold _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Abduction](https://readinglist.school/book/abduction) by Peg Kehret _(Grades 3–6)_
- [Among the Hidden](https://readinglist.school/book/among-the-hidden) by Margaret Peterson Haddix _(Grades 5–8)_
- [Because of Mr. Terupt](https://readinglist.school/book/because-of-mr-terupt) by Rob Buyea _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Because of Winn-Dixie](https://readinglist.school/book/because-of-winn-dixie) by Kate DiCamillo _(610L · Grades 3–5)_
- [Cryptid Hunters](https://readinglist.school/book/cryptid-hunters) by Roland Smith _(Grades 5–8)_
- [Ella Enchanted](https://readinglist.school/book/ella-enchanted) by Gail Carson Levine _(Grades 4–7)_
- [Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library](https://readinglist.school/book/escape-from-mr-lemoncellos-library) by Chris Grabenstein _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Escaping the Giant Wave](https://readinglist.school/book/escaping-the-giant-wave) by Peg Kehret _(Grades 3–6)_
- [Forged by Fire](https://readinglist.school/book/forged-by-fire) by Sharon M. Draper _(Grades 7–10)_
- [Frindle](https://readinglist.school/book/frindle) by Andrew Clements _(830L · Grades 3–7)_
- [Gregor the Overlander](https://readinglist.school/book/gregor-the-overlander) by Suzanne Collins _(Grades 4–7)_
- [Hatchet](https://readinglist.school/book/hatchet) by Gary Paulsen _(1020L · Grades 5–8)_
- [How to Steal a Dog](https://readinglist.school/book/how-to-steal-a-dog) by Barbara O'Connor _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25](https://readinglist.school/book/michael-vey-the-prisoner-of-cell-25) by Richard Paul Evans _(Grades 6–9)_
- [Mick Harte Was Here](https://readinglist.school/book/mick-harte-was-here) by Barbara Park _(Grades 5–8)_
- [New Kid](https://readinglist.school/book/new-kid) by Jerry Craft _(Grades 4–8)_
- [Orbiting Jupiter](https://readinglist.school/book/orbiting-jupiter) by Gary D. Schmidt _(Grades 7–10)_
- [Out of My Mind](https://readinglist.school/book/out-of-my-mind) by Sharon M. Draper _(700L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Refugee](https://readinglist.school/book/refugee) by Alan Gratz _(800L · Grades 5–9)_
- [Restart](https://readinglist.school/book/restart) by Gordon Korman _(730L · Grades 5–8)_
- [Roller Girl](https://readinglist.school/book/roller-girl) by Victoria Jamieson _(440L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Romiette and Julio](https://readinglist.school/book/romiette-and-julio) by Sharon M. Draper _(Grades 7–10)_
- [Ruby Holler](https://readinglist.school/book/ruby-holler) by Sharon Creech _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Saving Shiloh](https://readinglist.school/book/saving-shiloh) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor _(Grades 4–7)_
- [Scythe](https://readinglist.school/book/scythe) by Neal Shusterman _(Grades 7–12)_
- [Shiloh](https://readinglist.school/book/shiloh) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor _(890L · Grades 3–6)_
- [Smile](https://readinglist.school/book/smile) by Raina Telgemeier _(410L · Grades 4–8)_
- [So B. It](https://readinglist.school/book/so-b-it) by Sarah Weeks _(Grades 5–8)_
- [Stargirl](https://readinglist.school/book/stargirl) by Jerry Spinelli _(Grades 6–9)_
- [The City of Ember](https://readinglist.school/book/the-city-of-ember) by Jeanne DuPrau _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The Doom Stone](https://readinglist.school/book/the-doom-stone) by Paul Zindel _(Grades 6–9)_
- [The House of the Scorpion](https://readinglist.school/book/the-house-of-the-scorpion) by Nancy Farmer _(Grades 7–10)_
- [The Hunger Games](https://readinglist.school/book/the-hunger-games) by Suzanne Collins _(810L · Grades 6–9)_
- [The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)](https://readinglist.school/book/the-lightning-thief) by Rick Riordan _(740L · Grades 4–7)_
- [The Selection](https://readinglist.school/book/the-selection) by Kiera Cass _(Grades 7–12)_
- [The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants](https://readinglist.school/book/the-sisterhood-of-the-traveling-pants) by Ann Brashares _(Grades 7–10)_
- [Wait Till Helen Comes](https://readinglist.school/book/wait-till-helen-comes) by Mary Downing Hahn _(Grades 4–7)_
- [Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger](https://readinglist.school/book/wayside-school-gets-a-little-stranger) by Louis Sachar _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Wonder](https://readinglist.school/book/wonder) by R.J. Palacio _(790L · Grades 3–7)_

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