Book Awards & Distinctions
for Sally M. Walker
34 Total Book Awards
Champion: The Comeback Tale of the American Chestnut Tree (6)
Best STEM Books, 2017-2024
Selection, 2019
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2019
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Nonfiction Selection, 2018
Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Honor, 2019
Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2024
Commended, 2019
Out of This World: Star-Studded Haiku (5)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2023
Children’s Favorites Award, 2015-2024
Selection, 2023
Librarian Favorites Award, 2023-2024
Selection, 2023
Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2024
Selection, 2023
Notable Poetry and Verse Novels, 2011-2025
Selection, 2023
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland (5)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 2010
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2010
Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Commended, 2010
Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2024
Commended, 2010
YALSA Nonfiction Award, 2010-2024
Finalist, 2010
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley (4)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 2006
Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2005
Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Commended, 2006
Their Skeletons Speak: Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican World (3)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Middle Selection, 2012
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2012
Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 (2)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 2012
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Nonfiction Selection, 2012
Boundaries: How the Mason-Dixon Line Settled a Family Feud and Divided a Nation (2)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
History Selection, 2014
Teacher Favorites Award, 2015-2024
Selection, 2015
Sinking the Sultana: A Civil War Story of Imprisonment, Greed, and a Doomed Journey Home (2)
Winnie: The True Story of the Bear Who Inspired Winnie-The-Pooh (2)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2016
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Nonfiction Selection, 2015
Earth Verse: Haiku from the Ground Up (1)
Underground Fire: Hope, Sacrifice, and Courage in the Cherry Mine Disaster (1)
The Vowel Family: A Tale of Lost Letters (1)
Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2008