The International Reading Association congratulates the following 2013 award winners, who were honored at our 58th Annual Convention in San Antonio.
IRA Arbuthnot Award
Nancy Roser, University of Texas at Austin
IRA Award for Technology and Reading
Grand Winner: Stephanie Thompson, Ontario, Canada
East Regional Winner: Lauren Bakian, New York
Southeast Regional Winner: Monica Prather, Florida
West Regional Winner: Peter Count, Australia
IRA Jerry Johns Outstanding Teacher Educator in Reading Award
Cheryl Dozier, University at Albany – State University of New York
IRA/Weekly Reader Eleanor M. Johnson
Doris Coffey, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
IRA William S. Gray Citation of Merit
Timothy Shanahan, University of Illinois at Chicago
IRA Regie Routman Teacher Recognition Grant
Maurna Rome, Ogilvie, MN
IRA Maryann Manning Outstanding Volunteer Service Award
Paul Haupt, Ysleta Independent School District
Barbara Klebanow, Rockland Reading Council
IRA Paul A. Witty Short Story Award
Katy Duffield, “Winds of Hope,” published in Cricket Magazine
IRA Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award
Guadalupe Garcia McCall, Under the Mesquite, Lee and Low Books
IRA Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Award – Primary Fiction
Deborah Jo Larson, One Frozen Lake, Minnesota Historical Society
IRA Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Award – Primary Nonfiction
Linda McReynolds and Ryan O’Rourke, Eight Days Gone, Charlesbridge
IRA Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Award – Intermediate Fiction
Susan Verrico, Privateer’s Apprentice, Peachtree
IRA Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Award – Intermediate Nonfiction
James Doyle, A Young Scientist’s Guide to Defying Disasters with Skill and Daring, Gibbs Smith
IRA Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Award – Young Adult Fiction
Amy McNamara, Lovely, Dark and Deep, Simon and Schuster
IRA Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Award – Young Adult Nonfiction
Cynthia Levinson, We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March, Peachtree
Learn more about these and other award and grant opportunities on the IRA awards webpage.