Little Sister Is Not My Name! by Sharon M. Draper

YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers Nebraska Golden Sower Intermediate Award for 2016-2017 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards Program NAACP Outstanding Literacy Work for Youth/Teen Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award for 2017 IRA 2016 Notable Books for Global Societyīest Multicultural Books of 2015 by Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's LiteratureĢ015 Books by the Banks Author Award /Best Children’s Book Notable Children’s Books of 2015 by the New York TimesĢ016 NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Zarrow Award by the Tulsa Library Trust., as well as the 2016 Upstander Award by Antioch College.Ĭharlotte Huck award from the National Council of Teachers of Englishīest Middle Grade Books of 2015 by Kirkus, Edwards Award for lifetime literary achievement. In 2015 she was honored by the American Library Association as the recipient of the Margaret A. In 2011, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to the field of adolescent literature by The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English, as well as the 33rd Annual Jeremiah Luddington Award by the Educational Book and Media Association, also for lifetime achievement. In 2009 she received the Doctor of Laws Degree from Pepperdine University. In 2018 she was named Ohio Pioneer in Education by the Ohio State Department of Education, and in 2008 she received the Beacon of Light Humanitarian award. She is a YWCA Career Woman of Achievement, and is the recipient of the Dean’s Award from Howard University School of Education, the Pepperdine University Distinguished Alumnus Award, the Marva Collins Education Excellence Award, and the Governor’s Educational Leadership Award.

Her book Copper Sun has been selected by the US State Department and the International Reading Association as the United States novel for the international reading project called Reading Across Continents. She has been honored at the White House six times, and was chosen as one of only four authors in the country to speak at the National Book Festival Gala in Washington, D.C, and to represent the United States in Moscow at their Book Festival. She is a Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award winner, and was the Duncanson Artist-in-Residence for the Taft Museum. She was selected as Ohio’s Outstanding High School Language Arts Educator, Ohio Teacher of the Year, and was chosen as a NCNW Excellence in Teaching Award winner.

Blended, her latest novel, has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 10 weeks. She has been honored as the National Teacher of the Year, is a five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Literary Awards, and her novel Out of my Mind stayed on the NYT list for almost two years.

Draper is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author.

Little Sister Is Not My Name! by Sharon M. Draper