Book Awards & Distinctions
for Jeannine Atkins
20 Total Book Awards
Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science (8)

Best STEM Books, 2017-2025
Selection, 2018

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2017

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Young Reader and Middle Grade Fiction Honor, 2017

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Middle Selection, 2016

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2016

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2018
Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2021

Mathical Book Prize, 2015-2025
Winner, 2021

Notable Poetry and Verse Novels, 2011-2025
Selection, 2021
Borrowed Names: Poems about Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters (2)
Hidden Powers: Lise Meitner's Call to Science (2)
Stone Mirrors: The Sculpture and Silence of Edmonia Lewis (2)
Aani and the Tree Huggers (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1995
Get Set! Swim! (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1998
Girls Who Looked Under Rocks: The Lives of Six Pioneering Naturalists (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2001