Award Winning IRA Childrens Book AwardsAward winning IRA Childrens Book Awards give honor to distinguished books for primary and intermediate reading levels. The writers can be from any country in the world.The International Reading Association's Children's Book Awards are given to an author’s first or second published book. The childrens books can be from any country and in any language. Winners for the childrens book awards are selected for primary, intermediate, and young adult fiction and nonfiction. I'm looking forward to snatching time to read some more of these books! Especially 1000 Tracings, since I love WWII History. 2008 WinnersAward winning IRA Childrens Book Awards for 2008 Primary Fiction One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II Intermediate Fiction The Silver Cup Young Adult Fiction Red Glass by Laura Resau (Delacorte/Random House)
Primary Nonfiction Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer Intermediate Nonfiction Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion (Scientists in the Field Series) by Loree Griffin Burns (Houghton Mifflin)
Young Adult Nonfiction Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood Past Winners of Childrens Book AwardsHere are the award winners for childrens books in 2007. If you would like to see the books that won for earlier years, you can go to the IRA Book Awards site.2007 Primary Fiction Tickets to Ride: An Alphabetical Amusement by Mark Rogalski (Running Press Kids) Intermediate Fiction Blue by Joyce Moyer Hostetter (Calkins Creek Books, Boyds Mills Press) Young Adult Fiction Leonardo’s Shadow: Or, My Stonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci’s Servant by Christopher Grey (Atheneum Books, Simon & Schuster) Primary Nonfiction Theodore by Frank Keating (Paula Wiseman Book, Simon & Schuster) Intermediate Nonfiction Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium by Carla Killough McClafferty (Farrar Straus Giroux) Young Adult Nonfiction The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano by Margarita Engle (Henry Holt) These are just the tip of the iceberg for the Award Winning IRA Childrens Book Awards. Enjoy browsing through the books, and maybe you'll find the perfect book for your child or grandchild. Award Winning IRA Childrens Book Awards to Award Winning Childrens Books Award Winning IRA Childrens Book Awards to Childrens Books
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by Lita Judge (Hyperion)
by Constance Leeds (Viking/Penguin Group)
written and illustrated by Bill Wise (Lee & Low) 
by Ibtisam Barakat (Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
