Book Awards & Distinctions
for Candy J. Cooper
8 Total Book Awards
Shackled: A Tale of Wronged Kids, Rogue Judges, and a Town That Looked Away (5)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2025

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2024

Librarian Favorites Award, 2023-2025
Grades 9-12 Selection, 2025

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

YALSA Nonfiction Award, 2010-2025
Finalist, 2025
Poisoned Water: How the Citizens of Flint, Michigan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation (3)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2021

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Environment, Energy, Ecology Selection, 2021

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2020