Pamela Farris, Illinois State University

IRA/Weekly Reader Eleanor M. Johnson Award

Gary Wellbrock, New York, NY

IRA Regie Routman Teacher Recognition Grant

Dawn Beach, River Forest Community School Corporation

IRA Award for Technology and Reading

Grand Winner: Malea Ellison, Mountain Pine School District

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Southeast Regional Winner: Meagan Lynn England 

Plains Regional Winner: Sheila K. Berenson

IRA Erwin Zolt Curriculum Award

David Krauter, Arizona State University Preparatory Academy

Jessica Boland, Arizona State University Preparatory Academy

IRA Jerry Johns Outstanding Teacher Educator in Reading

Charline Barnes Rowland, West Virginia University

IRA William S. Gray Citation of Merit

Brian Cambourne, University of Wollongong, Australia

IRA Maryann Manning Outstanding Volunteer Award

Jo Anne Bryant, Alabama Reading Association

Serge Terwagne (posthumous), Belgium

IRA Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Award—Primary Fiction

Stephen Savage, Where’s Walrus? (Scholastic)

IRA Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Award—Primary Non-fiction

Jeanne Walker Harvey, My Hands Sing the Blues: Romare Bearden’s Childhood Journey, illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon (Marshall Cavendish)

IRA Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Award—Intermediate Fiction

Sheila O’Connor, Sparrow Road (Putnam)

Lucy Christopher, Flyaway (Chicken House/Scholastic)

IRA Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Award—Young Adult Fiction

Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray (Philomel)

IRA Children’s and Young Adults’ Book Award—Young Adult Non-fiction

Georgia Bragg, How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous, illustrated by Kevin O’Malley (Walker)

IRA Paul A. Witty Short Story Award

Brenda Moore, “Beyond the Call of Duty,” Cricket Magazine, Carus Publishing

This article is reprinted from the June/July 2012 issue of Reading Today. IRA members can read the interactive digital version of the magazine here. Nonmembers: join today!