Book Awards & Distinctions
for Kao Kalia Yang
20 Total Book Awards
From the Tops of the Trees (5)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2022

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2022
A Map Into the World (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2020

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2020

Charlotte Zolotow Award, 1998-2025
Honor, 2020
The Most Beautiful Thing (3)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2021

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2021
The Rock in My Throat (3)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Biography Selection, 2024

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2025
Yang Warriors (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2022
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir (1)

Skipping Stones Honor Awards, 1994-2024
Multicultural and International Honor, 2009
The Shared Room (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2021
Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir (1)

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2022