Book Awards & Distinctions
for Jerome Lagarrigue
10 Total Book Awards
Freedom Summer (4)

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
New Talent Winner, 2002

Ezra Jack Keats Award, 1986-2025
Author Winner, 2002

Ezra Jack Keats Award, 1986-2025
Author Winner, 2002
Going North (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2005

Ezra Jack Keats Award, 1986-2025
Author Winner, 2005
Me and Uncle Romie: A Story Inspired by the Life and Art of Romare Beardon (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2003
My Man Blue: Poems (1)

Marion Vannett Ridgway Award, 2000-2023
Winner, 2000
Perfect Timing: How Isaac Murphy Became One of the World's Greatest Jockeys (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2007