Book Awards & Distinctions
for Mara Rockliff
44 Total Book Awards
Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery That Baffled All of France (10)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2016

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2016

Cook Prize, 2012-2025
Winner, 2016

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Honor, 2016

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Science Selection, 2015

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2015

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Honor, 2016

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2015
Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (6)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2023

Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2024
Selection, 2022

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2022

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Biography Selection, 2023
Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2017

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2016

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2016

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2017
Me and Momma and Big John (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013

Charlotte Zolotow Award, 1998-2025
Honor, 2013

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Picture Book Text Winner, 2013

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
City Selection, 2012
Born to Swing: Lil Hardin Armstrong's Life in Jazz (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2019

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Arts Selection, 2018
Gingerbread for Liberty!: How a German Baker Helped Win the American Revolution (3)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2016

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2015

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2016
Chik Chak Shabbat (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2015

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
City Selection, 2014
The Grudge Keeper (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2015

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Social Interactions & Relationships Selection, 2015
Lights! Camera! Alice!: The Thrilling True Adventures of the First Woman Filmmaker (2)
My Heart Will Not Sit Down (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013

Ezra Jack Keats Award, 1986-2025
Author Honor, 2013
Try It!: How Frieda Caplan Changed the Way We Eat (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2022

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Biography Selection, 2022