Booktalk List and Caudill Nominees
Booktalk List
The Door of No Return – Kwame Alexander
Historical/Novel in Verse
Unfadeable by Maurice Broaddus
Realistic
Trapped in Terror Bay by Sigmund Brouwer
Nonfiction
Wild Ride by Keith Calabrese
Humor/Adventure
Karthik Delivers by Sheela Chari
Realistic
Miss Quinces by Kat Fajardo
Graphic Novel
Adrift by Tanya Guerrero
Adventure
The Black Slide by J.W. Ocker
Horror
Ghostlight by Kenneth Oppel
Mystery
Children of the Fox by Kevin Sands
Fantasy
Caudill Award Nominees
The Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award is an annual award given to the author of the book voted most outstanding by students in grades four through eight in participating Illinois schools.