Book Awards & Distinctions
for Joseph Bruchac
1 Lifetime Achievement Award 59 Total Book Awards
Rez Dogs (6)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2022

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Books for Older Children Honor, 2022

Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2025
Selection, 2022

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

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2021
Killer of Enemies (4)
The Heart of a Chief (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1998

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1998

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Books for Older Children Honor, 1999
Voices of the People (3)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Biography Selection, 2023

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Biography Selection, 2024

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2022
Bowman's Store: A Journey to Myself (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1997

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1997
The Boy Who Lived with the Bears: And Other Iroquois Stories (2)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 1996
Children of the Longhouse (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1996

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1996
Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two (2)
Crazy Horse's Vision (2)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2001

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2001
Eagle Song (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1997

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1997
Hidden Roots (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2005
Jim Thorpe's Bright Path (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2005

Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2024
Winner, 2005
March Toward the Thunder (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2009

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2009
Peacemaker (2)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Middle Selection, 2021

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Folktales Selection, 2022
Talking Leaves (2)

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

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2017
Two Roads (2)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Middle Selection, 2019

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2019
The Winter People (2)
Border Patrol (1)
A Boy Called Slow: The True Story of Sitting Bull (1)
Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story (1)
The Circle of Thanks (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1996
Dawn Land (1)

Great Graphic Novels for Teens, 2007-2025
Commended, 2012
Flying with the Eagle, Racing Great Bear (1)
Found (1)
Four Ancestors: Stories, Songs, and Poems from Native North America (1)
The Girl Who Married the Moon (1)
Of All Tribes: American Indians and Alcatraz (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Series Nonfiction Selection, 2023
Our Stories Remember: American Indian History, Culture, & Values Through Storytelling (1)

CCBC Choices
Rescinded, 2024
A Peacemaker for Warring Nations: The Founding of the Iroquois League (1)

Skipping Stones Honor Awards, 1994-2024
Multicultural and International Honor, 2021
Pushing Up the Sky: Seven Native American Plays for Children (1)
Seeing the Circle (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2000
Skeleton Man (1)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2002
Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back: A Native American Year of Moons (1)
The Way (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2008