Book Awards & Distinctions
for Achut Deng
4 Total Book Awards
Don't Look Back: A Memoir of War, Survival, and My Journey from Sudan to America (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2023

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Biography Selection, 2023

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Contemporary Concerns Selection, 2023

YALSA Teens' Top Ten, 2003-2023
Finalist, 2023