Book Awards & Distinctions
for Albert Marrin
39 Total Book Awards
Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy (6)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2012
Flora Stieglitz Straus Award for Nonfiction, 1993-2024
Older Readers Winner, 2012
Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2011
Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Nonfiction Selection, 2011
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2011
Oh, Rats!: The Story of Rats and People (4)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 2007
Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II (4)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 2017
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
History Selection, 2017
Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Young Adult Selection, 2016
Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 (4)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
History Selection, 2018
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2024
World History & Culture Selection, 2019
Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2019
Sitting Bull and His World (3)
Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2024
Winner, 2001
Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2024
Selection, 2001
A Volcano Beneath the Snow: John Brown's War Against Slavery (3)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Nonfiction Selection, 2014
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2024
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2015
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2014
FDR and the American Crisis (2)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Nonfiction Selection, 2015
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2024
World History & Culture Selection, 2016
A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust (2)
Saving the Buffalo (2)
Green Earth Book Award, 2005-2024
Honor, 2007
Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Commended, 2007
Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl (2)
1812: The War Nobody Won (1)
Black Gold: The Story of Oil in Our Lives (1)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Nonfiction Selection, 2012
Little Monsters: The Creatures That Live on Us and in Us (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2012
Thomas Paine: Crusader for Liberty: How One Man's Ideas Helped Form a New Nation (1)
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2024
Biography Selection, 2015
A Time of Fear: America in the Era of Red Scares and Cold War (1)
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2024
Reference Selection, 2022
Unconditional Surrender: U.S. Grant and the Civil War (1)
When Forests Burn: The Story of Wildfire in America (1)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Nonfiction Selection, 2024