Book Awards & Distinctions
for Elisabet Velasquez
7 Total Book Awards
When We Make It (7)
Américas Award, 1993-2024
Commended, 2022
Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2011-2025
Selection, 2022
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2022
In the Margins Book Awards, 2014-2025
Nonfiction Honor, 2022
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Hi-Lo Selection, 2022
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Contemporary Concerns Selection, 2022
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2021
