Awards

Awards By Book

Bread and Roses, Too

• New York Public Library Best Books for Teen Age, 2007
• Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year, 2007
• VOYA’s 2006 Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers
• Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, 2007
• Christopher Award, 2006
• Parents’ Choice Gold Medal, Fall 2006, Historical Fiction

The Same Stuff as Stars

• Co-winner of the Paterson Prize 2003
• Honor Book for The Red Mitten, Judy Lopez Memorial, and Jane Addams Awards 2003

Preacher’s Boy

• Parents’ Choice 1999 Story Book Award
• Jefferson Cup of Virginia Library Association

Jip, His Story

• The Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction 1997
• Parents’ Choice 1996 Story Book Award
• Parents’ Choice 1999 Paperback Book Honor

Flip-Flop Girl

• ALA Notable Children’s Book
• School Library Journal Best Book
• American Bookseller Spring Pick of the Lists for Middle Readers
• New York Public Library – 100 titles for Reading and Sharing

Lyddie

• Honor Book of the International Board of Books for Young People 1994
• ALA Best Book for Young Adults
• ALA Notable Children’s Book
• American Bookseller Pick of the Lists
• IBBY Honor Book

The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks

• Boston Globe/Horn Book Picture Book Award 1991
• The New York Times Ten Best Illustrated Books
• American Bookseller Pick of the Lists
• Booklist Editors’ Choice

Park’s Quest

• American Bookseller Pick of the Lists
• NCSS_CBC Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
• IRA-CBC Children’s Choice
• Learning Choice
• Library of Congress Books for Children
• Child Study Association Children’s Books of the Year
• The Horn Book Fanfare Honor List

The Tongue-Cut Sparrow

• Parent’s Choice Award
• NCSS-CBC Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
• IRA-CBC Children’s Choice
• Child Study Association Children’s Books of the Year
• CCBC Choice
• Library of Congress Books for Children

Come Sing, Jimmy Jo

• Parents’ Choice Award
• School Library Journal Best Books
• CCBC Choice Booklist Editors’ Choice

Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom

• Parents’ Choice Award
• NCSS-CBC Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
• Child Study Assoc. Children’s Books of the Year

Jacob Have I Loved

• Newbery Medal 1981
• ALA Notable Children’s Book 1976-1980
• School Library Journal Best Books of 1980
• Best of the 80’s YA Novels (English Journal)
• Best of the 80’s (ALA Booklist)

The Great Gilly Hopkins

• National Book Award 1979
• Newbery Honor Award 1979
• Honor Book, Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards 1979
• Christopher Award, 1979
• American Library Association Notable Children’s Books 1978
• School Library Journal Best book of 1978

Bridge to Terabithia

• Janusz Korczak Medal (Poland) 1981
• Silver Pencil Award (Netherlands) 1981
• Newbery Medal 1978
• ALA Notable Children’s Books 1977
• School Library Journal Best Book of 1977
• Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, 1978
• Le Grand Prix des Jeunes Lecturs (France), 1986
• 1986 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award

The Master Puppeteer

• National Book Award for Children’s Literature 1977
• Edgar Allen Poe Special Award, Mystery Writers of America 1977
• Citation from The Puppeteers of America, Inc. 1978
• ALA Notable Children’s Books 1976
• School Library Journal Best Book of Spring, 1976

Of Nightingales that Weep

• Phoenix Award Children’s Literature Association 1994
• ALA Notable Children’s Books 1974

My Brigadista Year

• International Latino Book Award

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

• New York Times Best Illustrated Book

Awards for Body of Work

• Massachusetts Reading Association Lifetime Award
• Member of the Board of Trustees for Vermont College of Fine Arts
• Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (The Children’s Literature Legacy Award), 2013
• National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, 2010-2011
• Vice-President of the National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance, 2007
• NSK Neustadt Award (University of Oklahoma), 2007
• Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, Swedish Government, 2006
• Literary Light, Boston Public Library, 2000
• Living Legend, Library of Congress, 2000
• Literary Light, Boston Public Library, 2000
• Living Legend Library of Congress, 2000
• New York Public Library Lion, 1998
• Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Writing, 1998
• Lion of the New York Public Library, 1998
• Who’s Who in American Women, 1995 to present
• King College, Outstanding Alumnus, 1993-1994
• Education Press Friend of Education Award, 1993
• Anne V. Zarrow Award Tulsa Public Library, 1993
• New England Book Award, 1992
• US Nominee Hans Christian Andersen Award, 1989
• Regina Medal, Catholic Library Association, 1988
• Children’s Literature Award, Keene State College, 1987
• Le Grand Prix des Jeunes Lecteurs (France), 1986
• Kerlan Award, University of Minnesota, 1983
• University of Southern Mississippi Medallion, 1983
• Preis der leseratten (Germany), 1982
• Garden State (New Jersey) Children’s Book Award, 1981
• Georgia Children’s Choice Award, 1981
• William Allen White Children’s Book Award (Kansas), 1981
• Preis der Leseratten (Germany), 1980
• Iowa Children’s Choice Award, 1980-81
• Massachusetts Children’s Book Award, 1980-81
• US Nominee Hans Christian Andersen Medal, 1979
• Who’s Who in America, 1978 to present
• The Union Medal, Union Theological Seminary New York
• The NSK Neustadt Award, 2007
• Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (The Children’s Literature Legacy Award), 2012
• E.B. White Award, 2016

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Honorary Degrees

United States of America

• Fellow in the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences
• St. Mary of the Woods, Indiana
• University of Maryland
• Hope College, Holland, Michigan
• Otterbein College, Ohio
• Presbyterian College in South Carolina
• King College, Tennessee
• Norwich University, Vermont
• St. Michael’s College, Vermont
• Shenandoah College and Conservatory, Virginia
• Washington and Lee University, Virginia
• Vermont College of Fine Arts, Vermont

Canada

• Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia