Jefferson Cup Award
This annual award given by the Youth Services Forum of the Virginia Library
Association since 1983 honors "a distinguished biography, historical
fiction, or American history book for young people." Below are the
winners.
2007
Blood on the River: James Town 1607
2006
Sweetgrass Basket
2005
A House of Tailors
2004
Grape Thief by Kristine Franklin
2003
Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe
2002
Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone
2001
Blizzard: The Storm That Changed America by Jim Murphy
2000
Preacher's Boy by Katherine Paterson
1999
Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen
1998
Leon's Story by Leon Walter Tillage
1997
The Ornament Tree by Jean Thesman
1996
The Great Fire by Jim Murphy
1995
Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco
1994
Across America on an Emigrant Train by Jim Murphy
1993
Children of the Dust Bowl by Jerry Stanley
1992
The Wright Brothers by Russell Freedman
1991
Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Russell Freedman
1990
Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder
1989
Anthony Burnes: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia
Hamilton
1988
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
1987
After the Dancing Days by Margaret Rostkowski
1986
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
1985
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
1984
Who Speaks for Wolf? by Paula Underwood Spencer
1983
The Jewish Americans: A History in Their Own Words by Milton Meltzer
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