Book Awards & Distinctions
for Ray Anthony Shepard
11 Total Book Awards
A Long Time Coming (4)
El día de los niños / El día de los libros, 2013-2025
Grades 6-8 Selection, 2025
Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Text for Older Readers Finalist, 2024
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2024
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2023
Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge (4)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2022
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2022
Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Books for Younger Children Honor, 2022
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Biography Selection, 2022
Now or Never: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry's War to End Slavery (3)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
History Selection, 2018
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2018
