Annal:1999 Young Reader’s Choice Award Junior Division
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Results of the Young Reader’s Choice Award in the year 1999. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Andrew Clements, Brian Selznick
- 1999 YRCA-Junior winner
- Score: 10.49
Nicholas Allen has plenty of ideas. Who can forget the time he turned his third-grade classroom into a tropical island, or the times he fooled his teacher by chirping like a blackbird? But now Nick’s in fifth grade, and it looks like his days as a troublemaker are over. Everyone knows that Mrs. Granger, the language arts teacher, has X-ray vision, and nobody gets away with anything in her classroom. To make matters worse, she’s also a fanatic about the dictionary, which is hopelessly boring to Nick. But when Nick learns an interesting tidbit about words and where…
