Status
Available
Publication
Puffin Books (2016), Edition: Reprint, 368 pages
Awards
National Book Award (Finalist — Young People's Literature — 2014)
A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book (Nonfiction — 2014)
Boston Globe–Horn Book Award (Honor — Fiction — 2015)
Massachusetts Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2018)
LA Times Book Prize (Finalist — Young Adult Literature — 2014)
Georgia Children's Book Award (Finalist — Grades 4-8 — 2016)
Great Stone Face Book Award (Nominee — 2016)
BCCB Blue Ribbon Book (Nonfiction — 2014)
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 6-8 — 2016)
Newbery Medal (Honor Book — 2015)
Ohioana Book Award (Finalist — Middle Grade & Young Adult Literature — 2015)
Nevada Young Readers' Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2016)
Oregon Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — 2017)
Coretta Scott King Award (Winner — 2015)
Grand Canyon Reader Award (Recommended — 2017)
Arkansas Teen Book Award (Nominee — 2016)
Iowa Children's Choice Award (Nominee — 2017)
Southern Book Prize (Winner — Children's — 2015)
Alabama Camellia Children's Choice Book Award (Nominee — 2015-2016)
North Carolina Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2016)
Land Of Enchantment Book Award (Winner — 2017)
NCSLMA Battle of the Books (Middle School — 2019)
Street Literature Book Award (Young Adult Literature — 2016)
Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee — Grades 4-6 — 2016)
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal (Honor Book — 2015)
Volunteer State Book Award (Nominee — Middle School — 2017)
The White Ravens (2015)
Keystone to Reading Book Award (Nominee — 2016)
Rhode Island Teen Book Award (Nominee — 2016)
Norman A. Sugarman Children’s Biography Award (Honor Book — 2016)
E.B. White Read-Aloud Award (Winner — 2015)
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction (Nominee — 2015)
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nominee — 2015)
NPR: Books We Love (2014)
CCBC Choices (2015)
The Best Children's Books of the Year (Nine to Twelve — 2015)
Great Reads from Great Places (Ohio — 2015)
New York Public Library Best Books: For Kids (Nonfiction — 2014)
Notable Children's Book (2015)
Nerdy Book Award (2014)
Reading Olympics (Middle School — 2024)
El día de los niños / El día de los libros (6-8 — 2016)
OYAN Book Rave (2015)
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Kids (Informational Books for Older Readers — 2014)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2014-08-28
ISBN
0147515823 / 9780147515827