Book Awards & Distinctions
for Jennifer Thermes
11 Total Book Awards
The Indestructible Tom Crean: Heroic Explorer of the Antarctic (3)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2024

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2024

Flora Stieglitz Straus Award for Nonfiction, 1993-2025
Younger Readers Winner, 2024
Manhattan: Mapping the Story of an Island (3)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
City Selection, 2020

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Honor, 2020
Charles Darwin's Around-the-World Adventure (2)

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Environment, Energy, Ecology Selection, 2017

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2017
Grandma Gatewood Hikes the Appalachian Trail (2)
Little Author in the Big Woods: A Biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1)

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Biography Selection, 2015