ILA Children's and Young Adults' Book Award

Other Names: IRA Children's and Young Adults' Book Award, IRA Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Award
142 Works 92,275 Books 4,763 Reviews 4.1
The IRA Children's and Young Adults' Book Awards are intended for newly published authors who show unusual promise in the children’s and young adults’ book field. Awards are given for fiction and show more nonfiction in each of three categories: primary, intermediate, and young adult. Books from all countries and published in English for the first time during the calendar year will be considered.

[Honor Books, at least for recent years, are reported in blog posts (example) and will need to be added at some point.] show less
Categories:
All, Honor (4), Honors, Intermediate—Fiction (2), Honors, Primary—Fiction (3), Honors, Young Adult—Fiction (2), Informational Reader Category (5), Intermediate—Fiction (15), Intermediate—Nonfiction (11), Older Reader Category (15), Primary—Fiction (13), Primary—Nonfiction (13), Winner, Intermediate Fiction (1), Winner, Intermediate—Fiction (1), Winner, Intermediate—Nonfiction (1), Winner, Primary—Fiction (1), Winner, Primary—Nonfiction (1), Winner, Young Adult—Fiction (1), Young Adult Category (1), Young Adult—Fiction (11), Young Adult—Nonfiction (10), Younger Reader Category (15), No Category (16)
Years:
All, 2015 (5), 2014 (12), 2013 (6), 2012 (6), 2011 (4), 2010 (5), 2009 (6), 2008 (6), 2007 (6), 2006 (6), 2005 (6), 2004 (6), 2003 (6), 2002 (6), 2001 (4), 2000 (4), 1999 (3), 1998 (3), 1997 (3), 1996 (3), 1995 (3), 1994 (2), 1993 (2), 1992 (2), 1991 (2), 1990 (2), 1989 (2), 1988 (2), 1987 (2), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1978 (3), 1977 (3), 1976 (1), 1975 (1)
WorkCategoryYear
The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier
Intermediate—Fiction2015
The Industrial Revolution for Kids: The People and Technology That Changed the World, with 21 Activities by Cheryl Mullenbach
Intermediate—Nonfiction2015
Maddi's Fridge by Lois Brandt
Primary—Fiction2015
Polar Bears and Penguins: A Compare and Contrast Book by Katharine Hall
Primary—Nonfiction2015
Beauty of the Broken by Tawni Waters
Young Adult—Fiction2015
The Water Castle by Megan Frazer Blakemore
Honors, Intermediate—Fiction2014
Paperboy by Vince Vawter
Honors, Intermediate—Fiction2014
Jackie and Me: A Very Special Friendship by Tania Grossinger
Honors, Primary—Fiction2014
Open This Little Book by Jesse Klausmeier
Honors, Primary—Fiction2014
Digby Differs by Miriam Koch
Honors, Primary—Fiction2014
The Tragedy Paper by Elizabeth LaBan
Honors, Young Adult—Fiction2014
Absent by Katie Williams
Honors, Young Adult—Fiction2014
Rump: The True Story of Rumplestiltskin by Liesl Shurtliff
Winner, Intermediate—Fiction2014
Draw Out the Story: Ten Secrets to Creating Your Own Comics by Brian McLachlan
Winner, Intermediate—Nonfiction2014
Dear Santasaurus by Stacy McAnulty
Winner, Primary—Fiction2014
War Dogs: Churchill & Rufus by Kathryn Selbert
Winner, Primary—Nonfiction2014
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Winner, Young Adult—Fiction2014
Privateer's Apprentice by Susan Verrico
Intermediate—Fiction2013
A Young Scientist's Guide to Defying Disasters with Skill and Daring: Includes 20 Experiments for the Sink, Bachtub and Backyard by James Doyle
Intermediate—Nonfiction2013
Lovely, Dark and Deep by Amy McNamara
Intermediate—Nonfiction2013
One Frozen Lake by Deborah Jo Larson
Primary—Fiction2013
Eight Days Gone by Linda Mcreynolds
Primary—Nonfiction2013
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Cynthia Levinson
Young Adult—Nonfiction2013
Flyaway by Lucy Christopher
Intermediate—Fiction2012
Sparrow Road by Sheila O'Connor
Intermediate—Fiction2012
Where's Walrus? by Stephen Savage
Primary—Fiction2012
My Hands Sing the Blues: Romare Bearden's Childhood Journey by Jeanne Walker Harvey
Primary—Nonfiction2012
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Young Adult—Fiction2012
How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg
Young Adult—Nonfiction2012
Split by Swati Avasthi
Intermediate—Fiction2011
Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
Intermediate—Fiction2011
Wanted: The Perfect Pet by Fiona Roberton
Primary—Fiction2011
My Heart Is Like a Zoo by Michael Hall
Primary—Nonfiction2011
The Beef Princess of Practical County by Michelle Houts
Intermediate—Fiction2010
All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon
Primary—Fiction2010
Building on Nature: The Life of Antoni Gaudi by Rachel Victoria Rodriguez
Primary—Nonfiction2010
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
Winner, Intermediate Fiction2010
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Young Adult—Fiction2010
The Leanin' Dog by K. A. Nuzum
Intermediate—Fiction2009
Raucous Royals: Test your Royal Wits: Crack Codes, Solve Mysteries, and Deduce WhichRoyal Rumors are True by Carlyn Beccia
Intermediate—Nonfiction2009
The Wheat Doll by Alison Randall
Primary—Fiction2009
Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau by Jennifer Berne
Primary—Nonfiction2009
Freeze Frame by Heidi Ayarbe
Young Adult—Fiction2009
Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age in China During the Cultural Revolution (Melanie Kroupa Books) by Moying Li
Young Adult—Nonfiction2009
The Silver Cup by Constance Leeds
Intermediate—Fiction2008
Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion by Loree Griffin Burns
Intermediate—Nonfiction2008
One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II by Lita Judge
Primary—Fiction2008
Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer by Bill Wise
Primary—Nonfiction2008
Red Glass by Laura Resau
Young Adult—Fiction2008
Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat
Young Adult—Nonfiction2008
Blue by Joyce Moyer Hostetter
Intermediate—Fiction2007
Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium by Carla Killough McClafferty
Intermediate—Nonfiction2007
Tickets to Ride by Mark Rogalski
Primary—Fiction2007
Theodore by Frank Keating
Primary—Nonfiction2007
Leonardo's Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci's Servant by Christopher Grey
Young Adult—Fiction2007
The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano by Margarita Engle
Young Adult—Nonfiction2007
The Bicycle Man by David L. Dudley
Intermediate—Fiction2006
Americans Who Tell the Truth by Robert Shetterly
Intermediate—Nonfiction2006
Russell the Sheep by Rob Scotton
Primary—Fiction2006
Night Wonders by Jane Ann Peddicord
Primary—Nonfiction2006
Black and White by Paul Volponi
Young Adult—Fiction2006
Jazz ABZ: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits by Wynton Marsalis
Young Adult—Nonfiction2006
The Golden Hour by Maiya Williams
Intermediate—Fiction2005
Buildings in Disguise: Architecture That Looks Like Animals, Food, and Other Things by Joan Marie Arbogast
Intermediate—Nonfiction2005
Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel by Leslie Connor
Primary—Fiction2005
Eliza and the Dragonfly by Susie Caldwell Rinehart
Primary—Nonfiction2005
Emako Blue by Brenda Woods
Young Adult—Fiction2005
The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon
Young Adult—Nonfiction2005
Sahara Special by Esme Raji Codell
Intermediate—Fiction2004
Carl Sandburg: Adventures of a Poet by Penelope Niven
Intermediate—Nonfiction2004
Mary Smith by Andrea U'Ren
Primary—Fiction2004
Uncle Andy's by James Warhola
Primary—Nonfiction2004
Buddha Boy by Kathe Koja
Young Adult—Fiction2004
At the End of Words: A Daughter's Memoir by Miriam Stone
Young Adult—Nonfiction2004
Who Will Tell My Brother? by Marlene Carvell
Intermediate—Fiction2003
If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World’s People by David J. Smith
Intermediate—Nonfiction2003
One Leaf Rides the Wind by Celeste Davidson Mannis
Primary—Fiction2003
The Pot That Juan Built by Nancy Andrews-Goebel
Primary—Nonfiction2003
Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe
Young Adult—Fiction2003
Headin' for Better Times: The Arts of the Great Depression (People's History) by Duane Damon
Young Adult—Nonfiction2003
Coolies by Yin
Intermediate—Fiction2002
Pearl Harbor Warriors: The Bugler, the Pilot, the Friendship by Dorinda Makanaonalani Nicholson
Intermediate—Nonfiction2002
Silver Seeds by Paul Paolilli
Primary—Fiction2002
Aero and Officer Mike by Joan Plummer Russell
Primary—Nonfiction2002
A Step From Heaven by An Na
Young Adult—Fiction2002
Meltdown: A Race Against Nuclear Disaster at Three Mile Island: A Reporter's Story by Wilborn Hampton
Young Adult—Nonfiction2002
Jake's Orphan by Peggy Brooke
Older Reader Category2001
Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women by Catherine Thimmesh
Older Reader Category2001
Stranger in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy by Carl R. Sams
Younger Reader Category2001
My Season with Penguins: An Antarctic Journal by Sophie Webb
Younger Reader Category2001
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Older Reader Category2000
Eleanor's story : an American girl in Hitler's Germany by Eleanor Ramrath Garner
Older Reader Category2000
The Snake Scientist by Sy Montgomery
Younger Reader Category2000
Molly Bannaky by Chris K. Soentpiet
Younger Reader Category2000
First in the Field: Baseball Hero Jackie Robinson by Derek T. Dingle
Informational Reader Category1999
Choosing Up Sides by John H. Ritter
Older Reader Category1999
My Freedom Trip by Frances Park
Younger Reader Category1999
Just What the Doctor Ordered: The History of American Medicine (People's History Series) by Brandon Marie Miller
Informational Reader Category1998
Moving Mama to Town by Ronder Thomas Young
Older Reader Category1998
Nim and the War Effort by Milly Lee
Younger Reader Category1998
The Brooklyn Bridge: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Bridge and the Remarkable Family that Built It by Elizabeth Mann
Informational Reader Category1997
Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Older Reader Category1997
The Fabulous Flying Fandinis by Ingrid Slyder
Younger Reader Category1997
The Case of the Mummified Pigs: And Other Mysteries in Nature by Susan E. Quinlan
Informational Reader Category1996
The King's Shadow by Elizabeth Alder
Older Reader Category1996
More Than Anything Else by Marie Bradby
Younger Reader Category1996
Stranded at Plimoth Plantation 1626 by Gary Bowen
Informational Reader Category1995
Spite Fences by Trudy Krisher
Older Reader Category1995
The Ledgerbook of Thomas Blue Eagle by Gay Matthaei
Younger Reader Category1995
Behind the Secret Window by Nelly S. Toll
Older Reader Category1994
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson
Younger Reader Category1994
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
Older Reader Category1993
Old Turtle by Douglas Wood
Younger Reader Category1993
Ten Little Rabbits by Virginia Grossman
Older Reader Category1992
Rescue Josh McGuire by Ben Mikaelsen
Younger Reader Category1992
Under the Hawthorn Tree by Marita Conlon-McKenna
Older Reader Category1991
Is This a House for Hermit Crab? by Megan McDonald
Younger Reader Category1991
Children of the River by Linda Crew
Older Reader Category1990
No Star Nights by Anna Smucker
Younger Reader Category1990
Probably Still Nick Swansen by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Older Reader Category1989
Rechenka's Eggs by Patricia Polacco
Younger Reader Category1989
The Third-Story Cat by Leslie Baker
1988
The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
1988
After the Dancing Days by Margaret Rostkowski
Young Adult Category1987
The Line Up Book by Marisabina Russo
1987
Prairie Songs by Pam Conrad
1986
Badger on the Barge and Other Stories by Janni Howker
1985
Ratha's Creature by Clare Bell
1984
The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce
1983
Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
1982
Kate and Mona in the jungle by Amy Aitken
1981
My Own Private Sky by Delores Beckman
1981
Words by Heart by Ouida Sebestyen
1980
Reserved for Mark Anthony Crowder by Alison Smith
1979
Hew Against the Grain by Betty Sue Cummings
Honor1978
The curse of the turtle by Thomas Albert Roy
Honor1978
A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry
1978
A Flute In Mayferry Street by Eileen Dunlop
Honor1977
To Spoil the Sun by Joyce Rockwood
Honor1977
A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond
1977
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
1976
Transport 7-41-R by Terry Degens
1975
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The IRA Children's and Young Adults' Book Awards are intended for newly published authors who show unusual promise in the children’s and young adults’ book field. Awards are given for fiction and nonfiction in each of three categories: primary, intermediate, and young adult. Books from all countries and published in English for the first time during the calendar year will be considered.

[Honor Books, at least for recent years, are reported in blog posts (example) and will need to be added at some point.] (English, Member-written)
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