Book Awards & Distinctions
for Mary E. Lyons
9 Total Book Awards
Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1992

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Fiction Winner, 1993
Sorrow's Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston (2)
Keeping Secrets (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1995
Master of Mahogany: Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker (1)
Starting Home: The Story of Horace Pippin, Painter (1)

Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2025
Winner, 1994
Talking with Tebe: Clementine Hunter, Memory Artist (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1998