The 2013 Jefferson Cup Committee is pleased to announce their selections for the 2013 Awards. The 2013 Jefferson Cup Award for Older Readers goes to Steve Sheinkin for Bomb: the race to build–and steal– the World’s most dangerous weapon, released by Roaring Brook Press. The 2013 Jefferson Cup Award for Younger Readers goes to Henry Cole for Unspoken, released by Scholastic Press.
The honor books for Older Readers are Come August, come freedom: the bellows, the gallows and the black general Gabriel by Gigi Armateau and Impossible Rescue: the true story of an amazing arctic adventure both released by Candlewick Press.
The honor books for Younger Readers are Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington, released by Little, Brown & Co. and Barnum’s Bones: How Barnum Brown Discovered the Most Famous Dinosaur in the World, released by Farrar Straus.
The Committee reviewed almost 150 books and it is with great pleasure that we announce these results.
Carol Farmer, Chair, Jefferson Cup Committee
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Appomattox Regional Library System