Carter G. Woodson Book AwardOutstanding Merit

Given by National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)

39 Works 285 Books
The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) established the Carter G. Woodson Book Awards for the most distinguished books appropriate for young readers that depict ethnicity in the United show more States. First presented in 1974, this award is intended to “encourage the writing, publishing, and dissemination of outstanding social studies books for young readers that treat topics related to ethnic minorities and race relations sensitively and accurately.” Books relating to ethnic minorities and the authors of such books rarely receive the recognition they merit from professional organizations. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (105), Honor Book (81), Outstanding Merit (39)
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Years:
All, 1996 (2), 1995 (4), 1994 (4), 1993 (4), 1992 (4), 1991 (4), 1990 (4), 1989 (3), 1988 (3), 1987 (2), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (2)

Outstanding Merit 39

WorkCategoryYear
Konnichiwa! I Am a Japanese-American Girl by Tricia BrownElementary Level1996
Red-Tail Angels: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II by Patricia C. MckissackSecondary Level1996
Master of Mahogany: Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker (African-American Artists and Artisans) by Mary E. LyonsElementary Level1995
Dear Benjamin Banneker by Andrea Davis PinkneyElementary Level1995
Battlefields and Burial Grounds: The Indian Struggle to Protect Ancestral Graves in the United States by Roger C. Echo-HawkSecondary Level1995
Harriet: The Life and World of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Norma JohnstonSecondary Level1995
Celebrating Kwanzaa by Diane Hoyt-GoldsmithElementary Level1994
The Great Migration: An American Story by Jacob LawrenceElementary Level1994
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom by Virginia HamiltonSecondary Level1994
Sequoyah's Gift: A Portrait of the Cherokee Leader by Janet KlausnerSecondary Level1994
Hoang Anh: A Vietnamese-American Boy by Diane Hoyt-GoldsmithElementary Level1993
How My Family Lives in America (Aladdin Picture Books) by Susan KuklinElementary Level1993
Thurgood Marshall: A Life for Justice by James HaskinsSecondary Level1993
The Year They Walked: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Beatrice SiegelSecondary Level1993
Pueblo Storyteller (HBJ Treasury of Literature) by Diane Hoyt-GoldsmithElementary Level1992
Carter G. Woodson: The Father of Black History (Great African Americans Series) by Pat McKissackElementary Level1992
Black Inventors and Their Inventions by Jim HaskinsSecondary Level1992
Now is Your Time! : The African-American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean MyersSecondary Level1992
Teammates by Peter GolenbockElementary Level1991
Hector Lives in the United States Now: The Story of a Mexican-American Child by Joan HewettElementary Level1991
Breaking the Chains by William Loren KatzSecondary Level1991
W. E. B. Du Bois by Pat McKissackSecondary Level1991
Vilma Martinez (Raintree Hispanic Stories Series) by Corinn CodyeElementary Level1990
Arctic explorer : the story of Matthew Henson by Jeri FerrisElementary Level1990
New kids in town : oral histories of immigrant teens by Janet BodeSecondary Level1990
A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter by Pat McKissackSecondary Level1990
Buffalo Hunt by Russell FreedmanElementary Level1989
Hispanic Voters: A Voice in American Politics by Judith HarlanSecondary Level1989
Pride Against Prejudice: The Biography of Larry Doby by Joseph Thomas MooreSecondary Level1989
Into a Strange Land: Unaccompanied Refugee Youth in America by Brent K. Ashabranner1988
You May Plow Here: The Narrative of Sara Brooks by Sara Brooks1988
American Indians Today: Issues and Conflicts (Impact Books Series) by Judith Harlan1988
Children of the Maya: A Guatemalan Indian Odyssey by Brent K. Ashabranner1987
Living in Two Worlds by Maxine B. Rosenberg1987
Racial Prejudice: Why Can't We Overcome (Impact Books) by Elaine Pascoe1986
Our Golda: The Story of Golda Meir by David A. Adler1985
The Hardest Lesson: Personal Accounts of a School Desegregation Crisis by Pamela Bullard1981
A Cry from the Earth: Music of North American Indians by John Bierhorst1980
James Van Derzee: The Picture Takin' Man by James Haskins1980

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