Author record · 2010 to 2025
Debbie Levy: Awards and Best-of Lists
Debbie Levy has won 3 awards, including the National Jewish Book Awards (2016) for I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark, with 3 shortlist or finalist places and 12 year-end list picks in our archive.
Also credited with Jo Ann Allen Boyce, Elizabeth Baddeley
Every recognition
| Year | Book | Source | Result | Translator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, the Original Fight over Science in Schools | Booklist Editors' Choice source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Books for Youth: Older Nonfiction | |
| 2025 | A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, the Original Fight Over Science in Schools | School Library Journal Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Nonfiction Middle to High School | |
| 2024 | Change Is in the Air: Carbon, Climate, Earth, and Us | New York Public Library Best Books source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Books for Kids | |
| 2024 | Change Is in the Air: Carbon, Climate, Earth, and Us | Chicago Public Library Best of the Best source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Informational Books for Younger Readers | |
| 2020 | This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality | Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Honor · Informational Book | |
| 2020 | The Key from Spain: Flory Jagoda and Her Music | Sydney Taylor Book Award source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Honor · Picture Book | |
| 2019 | This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality | Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Winner · Nonfiction | |
| 2019 | This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality | New York Public Library Best Books source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Books for Kids | |
| 2019 | This Promise of Change | Kirkus Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Middle Grade | |
| 2019 | This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality | Horn Book Fanfare source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Poetry | |
| 2017 | I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark | Sydney Taylor Book Award source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Winner · Picture Book | |
| 2017 | I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark | NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Honor · Nonfiction for Children | |
| 2017 | Soldier Song: A True Story of the Civil War | Publishers Weekly Best Books source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Picture Books | |
| 2016 | I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark | National Jewish Book Awards source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Winner · Children's Literature | |
| 2016 | I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark | Chicago Public Library Best of the Best source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Informational Books for Younger Readers | |
| 2016 | I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark | Booklist Editors' Choice source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Books for Youth: Nonfiction, Young Readers | |
| 2013 | We Shall Overcome: The Story of A Song | Chicago Public Library Best of the Best source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Informational Books | |
| 2010 | The Year of Goodbyes | Kirkus Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Children's |
Books
- I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark5 sources · 2016 to 2017
- This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality5 sources · 2019 to 2020
- A Dangerous Idea: The Scopes Trial, the Original Fight over Science in Schools2 sources · 2025
- Change Is in the Air: Carbon, Climate, Earth, and Us2 sources · 2024
- Soldier Song: A True Story of the Civil War1 source · 2017
- The Key from Spain: Flory Jagoda and Her Music1 source · 2020
- The Year of Goodbyes1 source · 2010
- We Shall Overcome: The Story of A Song1 source · 2013