Book Awards & Distinctions
for Gary Paulsen
4 Lifetime Achievement Awards 33 Total Book Awards
Brian's Winter (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1996
Hatchet (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1987

John Newbery Medal, 1922-2025
Honor, 1988
The Winter Room (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1989

John Newbery Medal, 1922-2025
Honor, 1990
The Crossing (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1987
Fishbone's Song (2)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Middle Selection, 2016
Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood (2)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Biography Selection, 2021

Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Middle Grade Selection, 2021
Northwind (2)

Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Middle Grade Selection, 2022

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2022
This Side of Wild: Mutts, Mares, and Laughing Dinosaurs (2)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2015
Alida's Song (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2000
Canyons (1)
Crush: The Theory, Practice and Destructive Properties of Love (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Middle Selection, 2012
Dancing Carl (1)
Dogsong (1)

John Newbery Medal, 1922-2025
Honor, 1986
The Haymeadow (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1992
How to Train Your Dad (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
High Interest Selection, 2021
The Legend of Bass Reeves: Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshal in the West (1)
Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment & Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard… (1)
The Tortilla Factory (1)
Vote (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Middle Selection, 2013
The Voyage of the Frog (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1989