Book Awards & Distinctions
for Gary Paulsen
4 Lifetime Achievement Awards 33 Total Book Awards
Brian's Winter (3)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1996
Hatchet (3)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1987
John Newbery Medal, 1922-2024
Honor, 1988
The Winter Room (3)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1989
John Newbery Medal, 1922-2024
Honor, 1990
The Crossing (2)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1987
Fishbone's Song (2)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Middle Selection, 2016
Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood (2)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Biography Selection, 2021
Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Middle Grade Selection, 2021
Northwind (2)
Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Middle Grade Selection, 2022
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2023
Selection, 2022
This Side of Wild: Mutts, Mares, and Laughing Dinosaurs (2)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Nonfiction Selection, 2015
Alida's Song (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2000
Canyons (1)
Crush: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Love (1)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Middle Selection, 2012
Dancing Carl (1)
Dogsong (1)
John Newbery Medal, 1922-2024
Honor, 1986
The Haymeadow (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1992
How to Train Your Dad (1)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
High Interest Selection, 2021
The Legend of Bass Reeves: Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshal in the West (1)
Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment & Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard… (1)
The Tortilla Factory (1)
Vote (1)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Middle Selection, 2013
The Voyage of the Frog (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1989