Rush Limbaugh wins a Children's Choice Book Award

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Rush Limbaugh wins a Children's Choice Book Award
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Move over, Veronica Roth. While the children's book market is saturated with dystopian YA series like Roth's Divergent trilogy and Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games books, it appears that kids prefer an entirely different genre.

Conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh won the "Author of the Year" award at the Children's Choice Book Awards for his best-selling book Rush Revere and The Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans, besting Roth in the category thanks to votes from kids themselves.

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Samantha Rollins

Samantha Rollins is TheWeek.com's news editor. She has previously worked for The New York Times and TIME and is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.