Awards for Guild Member Books 2012 - 13

Guild Members Among the Best of the Best

Fred Bowen - Quarterback Season

• IRA-CBC Children's Choices 2012 Reading List

Priscilla Cummings - The Journey Back

Marfe Ferguson Delano - Master George's People

• Starred review from Booklist
• Junior Library Guild selection

Cynthia Grady - I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery

• 2013 National Council for the Social Studies Notable Trade Book
• 2012 New York Public Library 100 Books for Reading and Sharing List
• Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Award

Jacqueline Jules

• No English
  2012 Forward National Literature Award
  
  
• Zapato Power: Freddie Ramos Makes a Splash
  2012 Reading Rockets Big Summer Read
  
  
• Zapato Power: Freddie Ramos Takes Off
  2012 Oregon State Beverly Cleary Children’s Choice Award
  Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Award

Hena Kahn

• Worst-Case Scenario Ultimate Adventure #2: Mars!
  2012 Golden Duck Award
  
  
• Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns
  American Library Association 2013 Notable Children's Book

Katy Kelly - Melonhead

• 2012 Oklahoma and Iowa State Master List

• Included by the Association of Jewish Libraries in its "Hanukkah Read Up, Great Hanukkah Books for Kids Recommended by the Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee."

Claudia Mills - Mason Dixon: Pet Disasters

• 2012 Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year

Erica Perl – When Life Gives You O.J.

• Sidney Taylor Award Honor Book
• Finalist 2012-13 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award (Vermont State Book Award)

Catherine Reef

• The Bronte Sisters: The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily and Ann
  Kirkus Best Teen Books of 2012
  
  
• Jane Austen: A Life Revealed
  2011 Top Ten Biographies for Youth (Booklist)
  2012 Nominee YALSA Nonfiction Award (Young Adult Library Services Association)

Susan L. Roth

• The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families (written with Cindy Trumbore)
  2012 Jane Addams Children's Book Award
  ALA Notable Children's Book
  Notable Books for a Global Society (International Reading Association)
  Best Children’s Books of the Year (Bank Street College of Education)
  Green Earth Book Award (Newton Marasco Foundation)
  Eureka! Award (California Reading Association)
  Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction (National Council of Teachers of English
  Smithsonian Notable Children’s Books
  
  
• Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt's Treasured Books
  2013 Notable Books for a Global Society (International Reading Association
  2013 Best Books for Young Children (Children's Africana Book Awards)
  2013 NCTE Orbis Pictus Nonfiction Award Recommended List

Rosalyn Schanzer – Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem

• NEW! 2013 Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Award from YALSA
• Society of Illustrators Gold Medal for Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2011
• 2012 Robert F. Sibert Honor Award
• ALA Notable Children’s Book
• School Library Journal Starred Review and Best Book of the Year
• NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction
• 2012 NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book
• A Junior Library Guild Selection for Fall 2011
• NY Public Library's 25 best Nonfiction Titles of 2011
• A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book
• Fuse #8 list of 100 Magnificent Children's Books of 2011
• Kid Lit Frenzy Top 5 Middle Grade Picks of 2011
• 2012 Nominee YALSA Nonfiction Award (Young Adult Library Services Association
• Smithsonian Notable Children's Book
• A Read Kiddo Read Best Book for Hallowwn Reading

Susan Stockdale – Bring On the Birds

• ALA Notable Children’s Book
• Board book version selected as "No Ordinary Book" by the Children's Book Council
• Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the Year (Bank Street College of Education)
• Parents' Choice Recommended Award
• Cybils Award Finalist 2011
• Keystone to Reading Elementary Book Award Finalist
• A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book
• A Best Children's Book for Family Literacy, Pennsylvania Center for the Book