Book Awards & Distinctions
for Joseph Bruchac
1 Lifetime Achievement Award 52 Total Book Awards
Rez Dogs (6)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2022
Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2024
Selection, 2022
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2024
Contemporary Concerns Selection, 2022
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2023
Selection, 2021
Killer of Enemies (4)
Voices of the People (3)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Biography Selection, 2023
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2024
Biography Selection, 2024
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2023
Selection, 2022
The Boy Who Lived with the Bears: And Other Iroquois Stories (2)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 1996
Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two (2)
Crazy Horse's Vision (2)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 2001
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2001
The Heart of a Chief (2)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1998
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
Peacemaker (2)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Middle Selection, 2021
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2024
Folktales Selection, 2022
Talking Leaves (2)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Middle Selection, 2016
Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2024
Selection, 2017
Two Roads (2)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Middle Selection, 2019
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2024
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2019
The Winter People (2)
Bowman's Store: A Journey to Myself (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)
Children of the Longhouse (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1996
The Circle of Thanks (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1996
Dawn Land (1)
Great Graphic Novels for Teens, 2007-2024
Commended, 2012
Eagle Song (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1997
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)
March Toward the Thunder (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2009
Of All Tribes: American Indians and Alcatraz (1)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Series Nonfiction Selection, 2023
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, 1995-2024
Commended, 2002
Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back: A Native American Year of Moons (1)
The Way (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2008