# Nevada Young Readers' Award reading list

**66** books referenced by Nevada Young Readers' Award, a reading-program curriculum framework spanning applicable K-12 grade levels.

The Nevada Young Readers' Award is Nevada's statewide student-choice reading program, presented annually since 1988 by the Nevada Library Association. Nevada students read from annual shortlists in four divisions and vote for their favorites; the Young Reader and Intermediate winner rolls run from Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You, Matilda, Maniac Magee, and Shiloh through Frindle, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, The Bad Beginning, Flipped, The City of Ember, Fablehaven, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Unwind, Smile, Out of My Mind, The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, A Night Divided, A Wolf Called Wander, and City Spies — four decades of the books Nevada classrooms actually vote for.

**Framework type:** reading-program
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/curriculum/nevada-young-readers-award
**Primary source:** https://nevadalibraries.org/nyra (nevadalibraries.org/nyra)
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## Nevada Young Readers' Award reading list

- [96 Miles](https://readinglist.school/book/96-miles) by J. L. Esplin _(Grades 6–8)_
- [A Boy Named Queen](https://readinglist.school/book/a-boy-named-queen) by Sara Cassidy _(Grades 3–8)_
- [A Night Divided](https://readinglist.school/book/a-night-divided) by Jennifer A. Nielsen _(Grades 5–8)_
- [A Wolf Called Wander](https://readinglist.school/book/a-wolf-called-wander) by Rosanne Parry _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Allergic](https://readinglist.school/book/allergic) by Megan Wagner Lloyd _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Among the Hidden](https://readinglist.school/book/among-the-hidden) by Margaret Peterson Haddix _(Grades 5–8)_
- [Ava and Pip](https://readinglist.school/book/ava-and-pip) by Carol Weston _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job](https://readinglist.school/book/baby-sitting-is-a-dangerous-job) by Willo Davis Roberts _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Ban This Book](https://readinglist.school/book/ban-this-book) by Alan Gratz _(Grades 3–6)_
- [City Spies](https://readinglist.school/book/city-spies) by James Ponti _(Grades 4–6)_
- [City of Thieves](https://readinglist.school/book/city-of-thieves) by Alex London _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Crash](https://readinglist.school/book/crash) by Jerry Spinelli _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Cryptid Hunters](https://readinglist.school/book/cryptid-hunters) by Roland Smith _(Grades 5–8)_
- [Dash (Dogs of World War II)](https://readinglist.school/book/dash-kirby-larson) by Kirby Larson _(Grades 4–7)_
- [Diary of a Wimpy Kid](https://readinglist.school/book/diary-of-a-wimpy-kid) by Jeff Kinney _(950L · Grades 3–7)_
- [Escaping the Giant Wave](https://readinglist.school/book/escaping-the-giant-wave) by Peg Kehret _(Grades 3–6)_
- [Fablehaven](https://readinglist.school/book/fablehaven) by Brandon Mull _(Grades 4–7)_
- [Flight #116 Is Down!](https://readinglist.school/book/flight-116-is-down) by Caroline B. Cooney _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Flipped](https://readinglist.school/book/flipped) by Wendelin Van Draanen _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Framed!](https://readinglist.school/book/framed) by James Ponti _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Frindle](https://readinglist.school/book/frindle) by Andrew Clements _(830L · Grades 3–7)_
- [Fudge-a-Mania](https://readinglist.school/book/fudge-a-mania) by Judy Blume _(Grades 3–6)_
- [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone](https://readinglist.school/book/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone) by J.K. Rowling _(880L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Hostage](https://readinglist.school/book/hostage) by Willo Davis Roberts _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Hummingbird](https://readinglist.school/book/hummingbird) by Natalie Lloyd _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher](https://readinglist.school/book/jeremy-thatcher-dragon-hatcher) by Bruce Coville _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth](https://readinglist.school/book/junie-b-jones-and-her-big-fat-mouth) by Barbara Park _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Loch](https://readinglist.school/book/loch) by Paul Zindel _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Loot](https://readinglist.school/book/loot) by Jude Watson _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Magyk](https://readinglist.school/book/magyk) by Angie Sage _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Maniac Magee](https://readinglist.school/book/maniac-magee) by Jerry Spinelli _(820L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Matilda](https://readinglist.school/book/matilda) by Roald Dahl _(840L · Grades 3–6)_
- [Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism](https://readinglist.school/book/molly-moons-incredible-book-of-hypnotism) by Georgia Byng _(Grades 3–8)_
- [My Teacher Is an Alien](https://readinglist.school/book/my-teacher-is-an-alien) by Bruce Coville _(Grades 3–6)_
- [Out of My Mind](https://readinglist.school/book/out-of-my-mind) by Sharon M. Draper _(700L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Red Midnight](https://readinglist.school/book/red-midnight) by Ben Mikaelsen _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Saving Winslow](https://readinglist.school/book/saving-winslow) by Sharon Creech _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Saving Zasha](https://readinglist.school/book/saving-zasha) by Randi G. Barrow _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Shape-Changer](https://readinglist.school/book/shape-changer) by Bill Brittain _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Shiloh](https://readinglist.school/book/shiloh) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor _(890L · Grades 3–6)_
- [Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You](https://readinglist.school/book/sixth-grade-can-really-kill-you) by Barthe DeClements _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Skeleton Creek](https://readinglist.school/book/skeleton-creek) by Patrick Carman _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Smile](https://readinglist.school/book/smile) by Raina Telgemeier _(410L · Grades 4–8)_
- [Stepping Up](https://readinglist.school/book/stepping-up) by Mark Fink _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Stolen Children](https://readinglist.school/book/stolen-children) by Peg Kehret _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Tarot Says Beware](https://readinglist.school/book/tarot-says-beware) by Betsy Cromer Byars _(Grades 3–8)_
- [The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1)](https://readinglist.school/book/the-bad-beginning) by Lemony Snicket _(1010L · Grades 4–7)_
- [The Boys Start the War](https://readinglist.school/book/the-boys-start-the-war) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor _(Grades 3–8)_
- [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 Ghost's Grave](https://readinglist.school/book/the-ghosts-grave) by Peg Kehret _(Grades 3–8)_
- [The Girl with the Ghost Machine](https://readinglist.school/book/the-girl-with-the-ghost-machine) by Lauren DeStefano _(Grades 3–8)_
- [The Maze of Bones](https://readinglist.school/book/the-maze-of-bones) by Rick Riordan _(Grades 3–8)_
- [The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane](https://readinglist.school/book/the-miraculous-journey-of-edward-tulane) by Kate DiCamillo _(Grades 3–6)_
- [The Name of the Game Was Murder](https://readinglist.school/book/the-name-of-the-game-was-murder) by Joan Lowery Nixon _(Grades 3–8)_
- [The Screaming Staircase](https://readinglist.school/book/the-screaming-staircase) by Jonathan Stroud _(Grades 3–8)_
- [The Strange Case of Origami Yoda](https://readinglist.school/book/the-strange-case-of-origami-yoda) by Tom Angleberger _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The Stranger Next Door](https://readinglist.school/book/the-stranger-next-door) by Peg Kehret _(Grades 3–8)_
- [There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom](https://readinglist.school/book/theres-a-boy-in-the-girls-bathroom) by Louis Sachar _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Took](https://readinglist.school/book/took) by Mary Downing Hahn _(Grades 6–8)_
- [Ungifted](https://readinglist.school/book/ungifted) by Gordon Korman _(Grades 5–8)_
- [Unwind](https://readinglist.school/book/unwind) by Neal Shusterman _(Grades 8–12)_
- [Virtually Perfect](https://readinglist.school/book/virtually-perfect) by Dan Gutman _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Zach's Lie](https://readinglist.school/book/zachs-lie) by Roland Smith _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Zeus, Dog of Chaos](https://readinglist.school/book/zeus-dog-of-chaos) by Kristin O'Donnell Tubb _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Zia Erases the World](https://readinglist.school/book/zia-erases-the-world) by Bree Barton _(Grades 3–8)_

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