IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award Winners

The International Reading Association Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award is intended for newly published authors who show unusual promise in the...more

Winners

	Building on Nature: The Life of Antoni Gaudi by Rachel Victoria Rodriguez 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Primary–Nonfiction (2010)	My rating:
	All the World by Elizabeth Garton Scanlon 4.21 avg rating — 1,214 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Primary–Fiction (2010)	My rating:
	The Beef Princess of Practical County by Michelle Houts 3.69 avg rating — 141 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Intermediate–Fiction (2010)	My rating:
	When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead 4.06 avg rating — 17,179 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Young Adult–Fiction (2010)	My rating:
	The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly 3.98 avg rating — 7,482 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Intermediate–Fiction (2010)	My rating:
	Freeze Frame by Heidi Ayarbe (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 286 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Young Adult–Fiction (2009)	My rating:
	Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution by Moying Li 3.70 avg rating — 169 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Young Adult–Nonfiction (2009)	My rating:
	Raucous Royals: Test your Royal Wits: Crack Codes, Solve Mysteries, and Deduce Which Royal Rumors are True by Carlyn Beccia 4.04 avg rating — 71 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Intermediate–Nonfiction (2009)	My rating:
	Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau by Jennifer Berne 4.08 avg rating — 154 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Primary–Nonfiction (2009)	My rating:
	The Leanin' Dog by K.A. Nuzum 3.73 avg rating — 413 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Intermediate–Fiction (2009)	My rating:
	The Wheat Doll by Alison L. Randall 4.24 avg rating — 37 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Primary–Fiction (2009)	My rating:
	Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat 3.80 avg rating — 282 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Young Adult–Nonfiction (2008)	My rating:
	Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion by Loree Griffin Burns (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 133 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Intermediate–Nonfiction (2008)	My rating:
	The Silver Cup by Constance Leeds 3.41 avg rating — 34 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Intermediate–Fiction (2008)	My rating:
	One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II by Lita Judge (Goodreads Author) 4.42 avg rating — 105 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Primary–Fiction (2008)	My rating:
	Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer by Bill Wise 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Primary–Nonfiction (2008)	My rating:
	Red Glass by Laura Resau (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 636 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Young Adult–Fiction (2008)	My rating:
	The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano by Margarita Engle 4.05 avg rating — 208 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Young Adult–Nonfiction (2007)	My rating:
	Leonardo's Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci's Servant by Christopher Peter Grey 3.67 avg rating — 299 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Young Adult–Fiction (2007)	My rating:
	Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium by Carla Killough McClafferty 3.71 avg rating — 41 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Intermediate–Nonfiction (2007)	My rating:
	Blue by Joyce Moyer Hostetter (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 225 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Intermediate–Fiction (2007)	My rating:
	Theodore by Frank Keating 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Primary–Nonfiction (2007)	My rating:
	Tickets to Ride by Mark Rogalski 4.68 avg rating — 31 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Primary–Fiction (2007)	My rating:
	Russell the Sheep by Rob Scotton 4.06 avg rating — 672 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Primary–Fiction (2006)	My rating:
	The Bicycle Man by David L. Dudley 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Intermediate–Fiction (2006)	My rating:
	Americans Who Tell the Truth by Robert Shetterly 4.58 avg rating — 24 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Intermediate–Nonfiction (2006)	My rating:
	Black and White by Paul Volponi (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 575 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Young Adult–Fiction (2006)	My rating:
	Jazz ABZ: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits by Wynton Marsalis 4.28 avg rating — 53 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Young Adult–Nonfiction (2006)	My rating:
	Night Wonders by Jane Ann Peddicord (Goodreads Author) 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Primary–Nonfiction (2006)	My rating:
	Emako Blue by Brenda Woods 3.91 avg rating — 190 ratings IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award for Young Adult–Fiction (2005)	My rating: