Book Awards & Distinctions
for Helaine Becker
17 Total Book Awards
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 (9)

Cook Prize, 2012-2025
Winner, 2019

Giverny Book Award, 1998-2025
Winner, 2019

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Biography Selection, 2018

Mathical Book Prize, 2015-2025
Honor, 2019

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2019

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Biography Selection, 2019

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2019

Teacher Favorites Award, 2015-2025
Selection, 2019
The Big Green Book of the Big Blue Sea (2)
An Equal Shot: How the Law Title IX Changed America (1)

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2022
Monster Science: Could Monsters Survive (and Thrive!) in the Real World? (1)
Puffin and Penguin (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Graphic Novels Selection, 2025
Worms for Breakfast: How to Feed a Zoo (1)
You Can Read (1)

Joan Betty Stuchner Award, 2017-2025
Picture Book Finalist, 2019