Book Awards & Distinctions
for Mariama J. Lockington
15 Total Book Awards
Forever Is Now (5)
Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2011-2025
Selection, 2024
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2024
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
City Selection, 2023
Schneider Family Book Award, 2004-2025
Winner, 2024
We Are Kid Lit Collective Summer Reading Lists, 2015-2025
Young Adult Selection, 2025
For Black Girls Like Me (4)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2020
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2020
Charlotte Huck Award, 2015-2026
Commended, 2020
SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2025
Selection, 2019
In the Key of Us (4)
When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology (2)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2024
We Are Kid Lit Collective Summer Reading Lists, 2015-2025
Young Adult Selection, 2025
