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Every July, the James Madison Book Award honors excellence in novels that bring knowledge and understanding of American History to readers ages five to fourteen. This award was created in 2003 by Lynne Cheney, the wife of the Vice President and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
This year, awards and honors were bestowed upon:
James Madison Book Award
MARITCHA: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl
by Tonya Bolden (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
Honors
BUILT TO LAST: Building America's Amazing Bridges, Dams, Tunnels, and Skyscrapers
by George Sullivan (Scholastic)
THE FORBIDDEN SCHOOLHOUSE: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students
by Suzanne Jurman (Houghton Mifflin)
PHOTO BY BRADY: A Picture of the Civil War
by Jennifer Armstrong (Atheneum)
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