Book Awards & Distinctions
for Sue Macy
35 Total Book Awards
The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come (7)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2020

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2019

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2020

Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2025
Selection, 2020

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Biography Selection, 2020

Sydney Taylor Book Award, 2001-2025
Winner, 2020
Sally Ride: Life on a Mission (4)

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2015
Trudy's Big Swim: How Gertrude Ederle Swam the English Channel and Took the World by Storm (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2018

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2018

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Sports Selection, 2017

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Women's History Selection, 2018
Breaking Through: How Female Athletes Shattered Stereotypes in the Roaring Twenties (3)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Sports Selection, 2020

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Biography Selection, 2021

Septima Clark Book Award, 2019-2024
Honor, 2021
Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber (3)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Biography Selection, 2016

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Biography Selection, 2017

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Commended, 2017
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (with a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) (3)

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2011

Rise: A Feminist Book Project Top Ten, 2011-2025
Commended, 2012

YALSA Nonfiction Award, 2010-2025
Finalist, 2012
Bull's-Eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley (2)
Motor Girls: How Women Took the Wheel and Drove Boldly Into the Twentieth Century (2)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2017

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Women's History Selection, 2018
Winning Ways: A Photohistory of Women in Sports (2)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 1997

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1996
Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women's Hoops on the Map (1)
Bylines: A Photobiography of Nellie Bly (1)
Girls Got Game: Sports Stories and Poems (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2002
Roller Derby Rivals (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Sports Selection, 2014
A Whole New Ball Game: The Story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1993