Book Awards & Distinctions
for Elizabeth Acevedo
1 Lifetime Achievement Award 60 Total Book Awards
The Poet X (25)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2019
Américas Award, 1993-2024
Honor, 2019
Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award, 2009-2025
Winner, 2019
Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2011-2025
Top 10 Selection, 2019
Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, 1967-2024
Winner, 2018
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2019
Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Young Adult Honor, 2019
Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2018
Indies Choice Book Awards, 2009-2019
Winner, 2019
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Audiobooks Selection, 2018
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Audiobooks Selection, 2018
Lambda Literary Award, 1992-2024
Finalist, 2019
Michael L. Printz Award, 2000-2025
Winner, 2019
Odyssey Award, 2008-2025
Honor, 2019
Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Young Adult Selection, 2018
Pura Belpré Awards, 1996-2025
Author Winner, 2019
Rise: A Feminist Book Project Top Ten, 2011-2025
Commended, 2019
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2018
Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature, 2016-2025
Winner, 2019
YALSA Teens' Top Ten, 2003-2024
Winner, 2019
Clap When You Land (14)
Américas Award, 1993-2024
Commended, 2021
Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award, 2009-2025
Winner, 2021
Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2011-2025
Top 10 Selection, 2021
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2021
Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2024
Selection, 2020
Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2020
Odyssey Award, 2008-2025
Honor, 2021
Read for Empathy Collections, 2017-2025
Selection, 2021
Rise: A Feminist Book Project Top Ten, 2011-2025
Commended, 2021
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2020
YALSA Teens' Top Ten, 2003-2024
Winner, 2021
With the Fire on High (12)
Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award, 2009-2025
Finalist, 2020
Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2011-2025
Top 10 Selection, 2020
Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Young Adult Honor, 2020
Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2019
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
High Interest Selection, 2019
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
High Interest Selection, 2019
Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2020
Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Young Adult Selection, 2019
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2019
Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature, 2016-2025
Honor, 2020
YALSA Teens' Top Ten, 2003-2024
Winner, 2020
Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice (6)
Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Finalist, 2020
Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2021
Notable Poetry and Verse Novels, 2011-2025
Selection, 2021
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Contemporary Concerns Selection, 2021
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2020
Inheritance: A Visual Poem (3)
