Children's & Young Adult Awards Yellow highlighting indicates nonfiction awards. Gray highlighting indicates likely nonfiction titles. Nonfiction titles may be found among the other awards but typically fewer than other awards. Prepared by Logan McKnight, UNCW Language & Literacy graduate student, for Dr. Jeanne Swafford Distributed to participants in NCRA and IRA presentations by Dr. Jeanne Swafford & Logan McKnight. For more information contact [email protected]

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