Book Awards & Distinctions
for Michael L. Cooper
6 Total Book Awards
Dust to Eat: Drought and Depression in the 1930s (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2005

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Winner, 2005
Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2003

Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2024
Winner, 2003
Fighting Fire!: Ten of the Deadliest Fires in American History and How We Fought Them (1)

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2015
Slave Spirituals and the Jubilee Singers (1)

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2002