IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Awards

2007

Mark Rogalski

Tickets to Ride: An Alphabetical Amusement (Primary–Fiction)
Running Press Kids

Frank Keating

Theodore (Primary–Nonfiction)
Paula Wiseman Book, Simon & Schuster

Joyce Moyer Hostetter

Blue (Intermediate–Fiction)
Calkins Creek Books, Boyds Mills Press

Carla Killough McClafferty

Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium (Intermediate–Nonfiction)
Farrar Straus Giroux

Christopher Grey

Leonardo’s Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci’s Servant (Young Adult–Fiction)
Atheneum Books, Simon & Schuster

Margarita Engle

ThePoet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano (Young Adult–Nonfiction)
Henry Holt

2006

Rob Scotton

Russell the Sheep (Primary–Fiction)
HarperCollins

Jane Ann Peddicord

Night Wonders (Primary–Nonfiction)
Charlesbridge

David L. Dudley

The Bicycle Man (Intermediate–Fiction)
Clarion Books

Robert Shetterly

Americans Who Tell the Truth (Intermediate–Nonfiction)
Dutton

Paul Volponi

Black and White (Young Adult–Fiction)
Viking Press

Wynton Marsalis and Paul Rogers

JAZZ ABZ: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits (Young Adult–Nonfiction)
Candlewick Press

2005

Leslie Conner (author)
Mary Azarian (illustrator)

Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel (Primary–Fiction)
Houghton Mifflin

Susie Caldwell Rinehart (author)
Anisa Claire Hovemann (illustrator)

Eliza and the Dragonfly (Primary–Nonfiction)
Dawn Publications

Maiya Williams

The Golden Hour (Intermediate–Fiction)
Amulet Books

Joan Marie Arbogast

Buildings in Disguise (Intermediate–Nonfiction)
Boyds Mill Press

Brenda Woods

Emako Blue (Young Adult–Fiction)
G.P. Putnam’s Sons

Brent Runyon

The Burn Journals (Young Adult–Nonfiction)
Alfred A. Knopf

2004

Andrea U’ren

Mary Smith (Primary–Fiction)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux

James Warhola

Uncle Andy’s: A Faabbbulous Visit with Andy Warhol (Primary–Nonfiction)
Penguin

Esmé Raji Codell

Sahara Special (Intermediate–Fiction)
Hyperion Books

Penelope Niven

Carl Sandburg: Adventures of a Poet (Intermediate–Nonfiction)
Harcourt

Kathe Koja

Buddha Boy (Young Adult–Fiction)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Miriam Stone

At the End of Words: A Daughter’s Memoir (Young Adult–Nonfiction)
Candlewick Press

2003

Celeste Davidson Mannis

One Leaf Rides the Wind (Primary–Fiction)
Viking

Nancy Andrews-Goebel

The Pot That Juan Built (Primary–Nonfiction)
Lee & Low Books

Marlene Carvell

Who Will Tell My Brother? (Intermediate–Fiction)
Hyperion

David J. Smith

If the World Were a Village: A Book About the World’s People (Intermediate–Nonfiction)
Kids Can Press

Chris Crowe

Mississippi Trial, 1955 (Young Adult–Fiction)
Phyllis Fogelman Books

Duane Damon

Headin’ for Better Times: The Arts of the Great Depression (Young Adult–Nonfiction)
Lerner

2002

Paolilli and Dan Brewer

Silver Seeds (Primary–Fiction)
Viking, Penguin Putnam Books

Joan Plummer Russell

Aero and Officer Mike (Primary–Nonfiction)
Boyds Mills Press

Yin

Coolies (Intermediate–Fiction)
Philomel, Penguin Putnam Books

Dorinda Makanaonalani Nicholson and Larry Nicholson

Pearl Harbor Warriors (Intermediate–Nonfiction)
Woodson House

An Na

A Step From Heaven (Young Adult–Fiction)
Front Street

Wilborn Hampton

Meltdown: A Race Against Nuclear Disaster at Three Mile Island (Young Adult–Nonfiction)
Candlewick Press

2001

Carl R. Sams II and Jean Stoick

Stranger in the Woods (Younger Reader Category)
Carl R. Sams II Photography

Sophie Webb

My Season With Penguins (Younger Reader Category)
Houghton Mifflin

Peggy Brooke

Jake’s Orphan (Older Reader Category)
Dorling Kindersley

Catherine Thimmesh and Melissa Sweet

Girls Think of Everything (Older Reader Category)
Houghton Mifflin

2000

Sy Montgomery

The Snake Scientist (Younger Reader Category)
Houghton Mifflin

Alice McGill

Molly Bannaky (Younger Reader Category)
Houghton Mifflin

Christopher Paul Curtis

Bud, Not Buddy (Older Reader Category)
Delacorte Press, Random House

Eleanor Ramrath Garner

Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany (Older Reader Category)
Peachtree

1999

Frances and Ginger Park

My Freedom Trip: A Child’s Escape From North Korea (Younger Reader Category)
Boyds Mills Press

John H. Ritter

Choosing Up Sides (Older Reader Category)
Philomel Books

Derek T. Dingle

First in the Field: Baseball Hero Jackie Robinson (Informational Reader Category)
Hyperion Books

1998

Milly Lee and Yangsook Choi

Nim and the War Effort (Younger Reader Category)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Ronder Thomas Young

Moving Mama to Town (Older Reader Category)
Orchard Books

Brandon Marie Miller

Just What the Doctor Ordered: The History of American Medicine (Informational Reader Category)
Lerner

1997

Ingrid Slyder

The Fabulous Flying Fandinis (Younger Reader Category)
Cobblehill/Dutton

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey (Older Reader Category)
Simon & Schuster Books for Young People

Elizabeth Mann

The Brooklyn Bridge (Informational Reader Category)
Mikaya Press

1996

Marie Bradby and Chris K. Soentpiet

More About Anything Else (Younger Reader Category)
Orchard Books

Elizabeth Alder

The King’s Shadow (Older Reader Category)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Susan E. Quinlan

The Case of the Mummified Pigs and Other Mysteries in Nature (Informational Reader Category)
Boyds Mills Press

1995

Gay Matthaei, Jewel Grutman, and Adam Cvijanovic

The Ledgerbook of Thomas Blue Eagle (Younger Reader Category)
Thomasson-Grant, Inc.

Trudy Krisher

Spite Fences (Older Reader Category)
Bantam Books

Gary Bowen

Stranded at Plimoth Plantation 1626 (Informational Reader Category)
HarperCollins Publishers

1994

Deborah Hopkinson

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (Younger Reader Category)
Random House

Nelly S. Toll

Behind the Secret Window (Older Reader Category)
E. P. Dutton

1993

Douglas Wood and Cheng-Khee Chee

Old Turtle (Younger Reader Category)
Pfeifer-Hamilton

Karen Hesse

Letters From Rifka (Older Reader Category)
Henry Holt and Company, Inc.

1992

Virginia Grossman and Sylvia

Long Ten Little Rabbits (Younger Reader Category)
Chronicle Books

Ben Mikaelsen

Rescue Josh McGuire (Older Reader Category)
Hyperion Books

1991

Megan McDonald

Is This a House for Hermit Crabs? (Younger Reader Category)
Orchard Press

Marita Conlon-McKenna

Under the Hawthorn Tree (Older Reader Category)
Holiday House & O'Brien Press

1990

Anna Egan Smucker and Steve Johnson

No Star Nights (Younger Reader Category)
Knopf

Linda Crew

Children of the River (Older Reader Category)
Delacorte-Dell

1989

Patricia Polacco

Rechenka’s Eggs (Younger Reader Category)
Putnam & Grosset

Virginia Euwer Wolff

Probably Still Nick Swansen (Older Reader Category)
Henry Holt

1988

Leslie Baker

The Third-Story Cat
Little, Brown

Philip Pullman

The Ruby in the Smoke
Knopf

1987

Margaret I. Rostkowski

After the Dancing Days (Young Adult Category)
Harper & Row

Marisabina Russo

The Line Up Book
Greenwillow Books

1986

Pam Conrad

Prairie Songs
Harper & Row

1985

Janni Howker

Badger on the Barge
Julia MacRae Books (London) and Greenwillow

1984

Clare Bell

Ratha’s Creature
Atheneum

1983

Meredith Ann Pierce

The Darkangel
Atlantic Monthly/Little, Brown

1982

Michelle Magorian

Good Night, Mr. Tom
Published by Kestrel Books (Penguin) in London. Issued by Harper & Row in the United States

1981

Delores Beckman

My Own Private Sky
E. P. Dutton

1980

Ouida Sebestyen

Words by Heart
Atlantic Monthly/Little, Brown

1979

Alison Smith

Reserved for Mark Anthony Crowder
E. P. Dutton

1978

Lois Lowry

A Summer to Die
Houghton Mifflin

Honor Books: Thomas Roy

The Curse of the Turtle
Bodley Head, London

Betty Sue Cummings

Hew Against the Grain
Atheneum

1977

Nancy Bond

A String in the Harp
Atheneum

Honor Books: Joyce Rockwood

To Spoil the Sun
Holt, Rinehart and Winston

Eileen Dunlop

A Flute in Mayferry Street
Oxford University Press

1976

Laurence Yep

Dragonwings
Harper and Row

1975

Tuti Degens

Transport 7-41-R
The Viking Press

IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Awards

Promising Poet Award

Short Story Award