Book Awards & Distinctions
for Jeffery Boston Weatherford
13 Total Book Awards
Kin: Rooted in Hope (6)
Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, 1967-2024
Winner, 2024
Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry, 1998-2025
Older Readers Winner, 2024
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Author Honor, 2024
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Middle Selection, 2023
Librarian Favorites Award, 2023-2025
Selection, 2024
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2024
You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen (4)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2017
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2017
Notable Poetry and Verse Novels, 2011-2025
Selection, 2017
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2017
Call Me Miss Hamilton: One Woman's Case for Equality and Respect (3)
Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2024
Selection, 2022
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Series Nonfiction Selection, 2022
Septima Clark Book Award, 2019-2025
Honor, 2023
