Grateful American Book Prize

Grateful American Book Prize Winners

2024 Grateful American Book Prize Winner

Humphrey and Me

by Stuart H. Brody

[Santa Monica Press]

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2024 Honorable Mention

The Double V Campaign

by Lea Lyon

[Rowman & Littlefield Publishers]

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Plague-Busters!

by Lindsey Fitzharris and Adrian Teal

[Bloomsbury]

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2023 Grateful American Book Prize Winner

Mattie and the Machine

by Lynn Ng Quezon

[Santa Monica Press]

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2023 Honorable Mention

Island of Spies

by Sheila Turnage

[Dial Books for Young Readers]

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I Could Not Do Otherwise: The Remarkable Life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker

by Sara Latta

[Zest Books]

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2022 Grateful American Book Prize Winner

Black Was the Ink

by Michelle Coles

[Tu Books]

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2022 Honorable Mention

Ambushed!: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield

by Gail Jarrow

[Calkins Creek]

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Speak Up, Speak Out!: The Extraordinary Life of Fighting Shirley Chisholm

by Tonya Bolden
[National Geographic Kids]

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2021 Grateful American Book Prize Winner

Ground Zero

by Alan Gratz

[Scholastic Press]

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2021 Honorable Mention

The Cannon of Courage

by Chris Stevenson

[Knox Press]

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View from Pagoda Hill

by Michaela MacColl
[Calkins Creek]
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2020 Grateful American Book Prize Winner

Child of the Dream: A Memoir of 1963

by Sharon Robinson

[Scholastic]

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2020 Honorable Mention

Allies

by Alan Gratz

[Scholastic]

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Accused!: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys

by Larry Dane Brimner

[Calkins Press]

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2019 Grateful American Book Prize Winner

The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor

by Sonia Sotomayor

[Delacorte Books for Young Readers]

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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

Suspect Red

by L.M. Elliott

[Hyperion-Disney]

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2018 Honorable Mention

Hamilton and Peggy! A Revolutionary Friendship

by L.M. Elliott

[HarperCollins]
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The Making of America 'Andrew Jackson'

by Teri Kanefield

[Abrams Books for Young Readers]
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2017 Grateful American Book Prize Winner

Hidden Figures

by Margot Lee Shetterly

[HarperCollins]

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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

The Drum of Destiny

by Chris Stevenson

[Stone Arch Books]

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2016 Honorable Mention

Freedom’s Price

by Michaela MacColl and Rosemary Nichols

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The Hired Girl

by Laura Amy Schlitz

[Candlewick]
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2015 Grateful American Book Prize Winner (Inaugural Year)

Like a River: A Civil War Novel

by Kathy Cannon Wiechman

[Calkins Creek]

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2015 Honorable Mention

The Revelation of Louisa May

by Michaela MacColl

[Chronicle Books]
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Wheels of Change

by Darlene Beck Jacobson

[Creston Books]
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