Awards

Out of My Mind was named

one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential

Books of All Time.

  • Copper Sun named one of the 100 Best YA Books of All Time by TIME Magazine

  • Three time Parents' Choice Award winner

  • Winner of the Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children from NCTE

  • Named to Kirkus’ list of  Best Middle Grades Fiction

  • Winner of the Horace Mann Upstander Award

  • Three time winner of NCSS-CBC’s Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Award

  • Three time winner of the IRA Notable Books for Global Society Award

  • Named to the list of Best Multicultural Books by Center for the Study of Multicultural 

  • Children's Literature (CSMCL) Chosen for NYC Reads 365

  • Named as one of ALSC’s Notable Children's Books 

  • Books by the Banks Author Award/Best Children’s Book Award

  • Named as a New York Times Notable Children’s Books 

  • Winner of the Josette Frank Award from the Children's Book Committee of the Bank Street College of Education. 

  • Four time International Reading Association Young Adult Choice Books Winner

  • International Reading Association Children's Choice Award Winner

  • International Reading Association, United States State Department, and Reading Across Continents pick for Reading Across Continents between US and Africa

  • IRA Teachers' Choice Book Winner

  • Bank Street College Outstanding Children's Book Winner

  • Bank Street College Recommended Best Book Winner

  • SAKURA Award from the children of Japan.

  • Children’s Literature Assembly Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts Winner

  • KIRKUS Best Book of the Year Winner 

  • Five time winner of the Coretta Scott King Literary Award

  • Seven time winner of the New York Public Library’s Best Books for the Teen Age

  • Five time winner of the American Library Association’s Best Books for Young Adults Award

  • Two time American Library Association Top Ten Quick Picks Winner

  • Two time winner of the American Library Association’s Best of the Best Award

  • YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers 

  • Best of the Best by VOYA Magazine

  • VOYA Magazine's Nonfiction Honor List 

  • Winner of the Children's Book Council Best Book Award

  • Winner of the National Council for Social Studies’ Best Book Award

  • Winner of the Ohioana Award for Young Adult Literature

  • Winner of the Heartland Award for Excellence in YA Literature 

  • Winner of the Broward Teen Readers' Choice Award

  • Chosen for Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal

  • Chosen as one of the top 100 books for Young Adults for the millennium by the American Library Association

  • Named by Booklist as one of the Top Ten Historical Fiction Books for Youth

  • Featured by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center as a major museum exhibit

In addition to the above awards, Sharon Draper has been on the New York Times Bestseller list multiple times, as well as on the Indie National bestseller list. Her books have been translated into several languages including Italian, Catalan, Chinese Complex, Chinese Simplified, Spanish, Russian, Korean, German, Hebrew, and Brazilian Portuguese. She has also been nominated for:

  • Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award

  • NAACP Outstanding Literacy Work for Youth/Teen Award

  • Georgia Children's Book Awards

  • Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards Program

  • Nebraska Golden Sower Intermediate Award 

  • Nominated for the 2007 NAACP Image Award for Literature

Mrs. Draper’s books have been added to state reading lists and won multiple state awards including but not limited to:

  • California Young Reader Middle School/Junior High Medal

  • Illinois Bluestem Award

  • Three time winner of the Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award 

  • Missouri Mark Twain Readers Award 

  • Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award

  • Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Award

  • Nevada Young Readers’ Award

  • New Mexico Land of Enchantment Award

  • North Dakota Flicker Tale Children's Book Award

  • Two time Ohio Buckeye Children's Book Award

  • Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award

  • Three time Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Winner

  • South Dakota Prairie Pasque Award

  • Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award

  • Texas Lamplighter Award

  • Utah Beehive Book Award

  • Virginia Readers' Choice Award

  • Washington Sasquatch Award