2023 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Non-Fiction Honor Book
AWARDS
Finalist for the 2022 Golden Kite Award for Middle Grade Fiction
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book
Won 2023 YALSA Award for Excellent in Nonfiction
Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book
Nominated for 2023 NAACP Image Award
Finalist for the 2022 Golden Kite Award for Middle Grade Fiction
Won 2021 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award, 2021 Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor , Claudia Lewis Award , 2021 OWL Award , 2021 Southern Book Prize for Children’s Literature , 2020 Cybils Award for Best Fiction Picture Book , 2020 Nerdy Award , 2020 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children , 2020 Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature ; Nominated for Black-Eyed Susan Award
Won 2020 Nerdy Award , 2021 Children’s Africana Book Award for Best Book for Young Children , 2021 Ezra Jack Keats Writer Award ; Nominated for Red Clover Book Award ; selected as Booklist’s Top of the List 2020 Picture Book selection,
Won 2018 Caldecott Honor , 2018 Newbery Honor book , 2018 Kirkus Prize , 2018 Ezra Jack Keats Writer Award
Nominated for Black-Eyed Susan Award
Finalist for the 2020 Will Rodgers Medallion Awards (Gordon C. James) ; four starred reviews (from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and School Library Journal)
Won the Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical work ; Finalist for 2018 PEN America Literary Award ; Semi-Finalist for MAHH Stone Book Award
selected (Derrick Barnes) as Male Author of the Year at the 2021 AAMBC Awards
Won Long Best Nonfiction and Best Short Stories/Anthologies categories at the 2020 African American Literary Awards.
Won 2020 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award (April Harrison)
Nominated for the 2018 African American Literary Awards