Sequoyah Book Awards are selected by children in Oklahoma Schools in grades 3-12. The book lists are made by the Sequoyah Reading Teams, usually school librarians from around the state. The award is sponsored by The Oklahoma Library Association. Sequoyah Awards exist in three categories Children's, Intermediate, and High School with authors invited to appear at the annual OLA conference to receive their award.

To honor and recognize individual work about Asian/Pacific Americans and their heritage, based on literary and artistic merit.

Awarded to an American publisher for a children’s book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originating in a country other than the United States and in a language other than English and subsequently translated into English for publication in the United States during the preceding year.

Awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

Identifies the best of the best in children's books. According to the Notables Criteria, "notable" is defined as: Worthy of note or notice, important, distinguished, outstanding.

Given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values.

Given annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year.

Established to affirm new talent and to offer visibility to excellence in writing and/or illustration which otherwise might be formally unacknowledged within a given year within the structure of the two awards given annually by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee.

Currently honors the best Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature, published each year.

Awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

Given annually by children's book publisher Lee & Low Books for a children’s picture book manuscript by a writer of color or Indigenous/Native writer.

Given to the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States.

Presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.

Annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults. Scott O'Dell established this award to encourage other writers to focus on historical fiction. He hoped in this way to increase the interest of young readers in the historical background that has helped to shape their country and their world.

Awarded annually to the author(s) and illustrator(s) of the most distinguished informational book published in the United States in English during the preceding year.

International books deemed most outstanding each year. For this list, the term "international book" is defined as a book published or distributed in the United States that originated or was first published in a country other than the USA.

To advocate for books that portray the complexity of rural living by dispelling stereotypes and demonstrating diversity among rural people.