Book Awards & Distinctions
for Sally M. Walker
35 Total Book Awards
Champion: The Comeback Tale of the American Chestnut Tree (6)

Best STEM Books, 2017-2025
Selection, 2019

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2019

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2018

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Honor, 2019

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2019
Out of This World: Star-Studded Haiku (5)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2023

Children's Favorites Award, 2015-2025
Selection, 2023

Librarian Favorites Award, 2023-2025
Selection, 2023

Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2025
Selection, 2023

Notable Poetry and Verse Novels, 2011-2025
Selection, 2023
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland (5)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2010

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2010

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Commended, 2010

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2010

YALSA Nonfiction Award, 2010-2025
Finalist, 2010
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2006

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2005

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Commended, 2006
Their Skeletons Speak: Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican World (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013

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

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2012
Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 (2)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2012

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2012
Boundaries: How the Mason-Dixon Line Settled a Family Feud and Divided a Nation (2)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
History Selection, 2014

Teacher Favorites Award, 2015-2025
Selection, 2015
Sinking the Sultana: A Civil War Story of Imprisonment, Greed, and a Doomed Journey Home (2)
Winnie: The True Story of the Bear Who Inspired Winnie-The-Pooh (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2016

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2015
Earth Verse: Haiku from the Ground Up (1)
Underground Fire: Hope, Sacrifice, and Courage in the Cherry Mine Disaster (1)
The Vowel Family: A Tale of Lost Letters (1)

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2008