Book Awards & Distinctions
for Safia Elhillo
15 Total Book Awards
Bright Red Fruit (9)
BCALA Children and Youth Literary Awards, 2021-2025
Fiction Winner, 2025
Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2011-2025
Top 10 Selection, 2025
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2025
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
City Selection, 2024
Michael L. Printz Award, 2000-2025
Honor, 2025
Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Young Adult Selection, 2024
Rise: A Feminist Book Project Top Ten, 2011-2025
Commended, 2025
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2024
Home Is Not a Country (6)
Arab American Book Award, 2007-2024
Winner, 2022
Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2011-2025
Selection, 2022
Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Author Honor, 2022
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2022
