Book Awards & Distinctions
for Teri Kanefield
8 Total Book Awards
The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement (5)

Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2025
Winner, 2015

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2014

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

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Commended, 2015
Alexander Hamilton: The Making of America (1)
The Extraordinary Suzy Wright: A Colonial Woman on the Frontier (1)

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Biography Selection, 2017
Guilty?: Crime, Punishment, and the Changing Face of Justice (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2014