Grateful American Book Prize Winners
2025 Grateful American Book Prize Winner
2025 Honorable Mention
Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany
by Rebecca Brenner Graham
[Kensington]
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A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, the Original Fight over Science in Schools
by Debbie Levy
[Bloomsbury]
2024 Grateful American Book Prize Winner
2024 Honorable Mention
2023 Grateful American Book Prize Winner
2023 Honorable Mention
I Could Not Do Otherwise: The Remarkable Life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
by Sara Latta
[Zest Books]
2022 Grateful American Book Prize Winner
2022 Honorable Mention
Ambushed!: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield
by Gail Jarrow
[Calkins Creek]
Speak Up, Speak Out!: The Extraordinary Life of Fighting Shirley Chisholm
by Tonya Bolden
[National Geographic Kids]
2021 Grateful American Book Prize Winner
2021 Honorable Mention
View from Pagoda Hill
by Michaela MacColl
[Calkins Creek]
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2020 Grateful American Book Prize Winner
2020 Honorable Mention
2019 Grateful American Book Prize Winner
The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor
by Sonia Sotomayor
[Delacorte Books for Young Readers]
2019 Honorable Mention
Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction And The Dawn Of Jim Crow
by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Tonya Bolden
[Scholastic Focus]
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The Electric War: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, And The Race To Light The World
by Mike Winchell
[Henry Holt]
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2018 Grateful American Book Prize Winner
2018 Honorable Mention
2017 Grateful American Book Prize Winner
2017 Honorable Mention
Dreamland Burning
by Jennifer Latham
[Little, Brown Books for Young Readers]
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The Story of John Quincy Adams 250 Years After his Birth
by Edward Cody Huddleston
[Atlantic Publishing Group]
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2016 Grateful American Book Prize Winner
2016 Honorable Mention
Freedom’s Price
by Michaela MacColl and Rosemary Nichols
[Calkins Creek] More info
The Hired Girl
by Laura Amy Schlitz
[Candlewick]
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2015 Grateful American Book Prize Winner (Inaugural Year)
