Awards & Honors
Winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature
For Body of Work
Saint Katharine Drexel Award 2013, Catholic Library Association
A TLA Spirit of Texas Reading List Selection
A VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers Selection
A Dorothy Canfield Fisher Master List Selection
A Kansas NEA Reading Circle Master List Selection
The Water Seeker
2011 YALSA BEST FICTION for Young Adults
New York Public Library Best 100 Books for 2010
2010 Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2011
Piper Reed Party Planner
(Formerly Piper Reed Gets A Job)
Book of the Month Selection by the Rutgers University Project on Economics and Children
Piper Reed Clubhouse Queen
(Formerly Piper Reed The Great Gypsy)
2009 Kansas Reading Circle List
Piper Reed Navy Brat
2010/2011 Sunshine State Young Reader Award Nominee
A Book Sense Autumn 2007 Children's Picks List
A Family Circle Book of the Month Selection
New Mexico's 2008/2009 Land of Enchantment Children's Book Award Nominee
2007 Cleveland Public Library Celebrate with Books for Children and Teens List
A Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List Selection
South Dakota's 2009-2010 Prairie Pasque Children's Master List
Oregon's Battle of the Books 2009-2010 Selection
Oregon's 2010 Beverly Cleary Children's Choice Award Nominee
Minnesota's Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award Nominee
Skinny Brown Dog
A Book Sense Autumn 2007 Children's Picks List
Nominee for the E.B. WHITE READ ALOUD AWARD
Oppenheim Gold Toy Award Winne
Part of Me
Texas State Reading Association's Golden Spur Honor
Winner of The Literary Merit Award given by the Louisiana Library Association
An ABC Best Books for Children selection
A Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Book Award Nominee
A Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices Selection
A Parenting Magazine Pick
A 2007 Kansas State Reading Circle Recommendation
Arkansas's Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award Nominee
Waiting for Gregory
2006 Cybil Award Finalist
Keeper of the Night
A School Library Journal's "Best Books of the Year" selection
A "Kirkus Reviews 2003 Editor's Choice" selection
An ALA "Best Books for Young Adults"
An ALA "Notable Book"
Amazon's #1 Favorite for Teens, 2003
A Parent's Choice Gold Award Winner
Bank Street College's "Best Children's Books of the Year" Selection
Notable Book for a Global Society
Volunteer State Book Award Nominee
New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age Selection
Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Nominee
A Capital Choices Book
Michigan Reading Association Great Lakes Book Award Nominee
A Book Sense 76 Selection
Dancing in Cadillac Light
Finalist for Illinois's Rebecca Caudill Reader's Book Award
Finalist for Vermont's Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award
Kansas' William Allen White Award Nominee
Missouri's Mark Twain Award Nominee
West Virginia Children's Book Award Nominee
Indiana's Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee
Garden State Teen Book Award Nominee
Iowa Teen Book Award Nominee
Arkansas’s Charlie May Simon Children’s Book Award Nominee
Virginia Young Reader’s Book Award Nominee
A School Library Journal Best Books of 2001 Selection
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature
One of ALA's Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults
An ALA Notable Book
Horn Book Fanfare
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
An American Bookseller "Pick of the List"
Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List
Finalist for Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
Finalist for the Kansas Heartland Award for Excellence in YA Literature
Pennsylvania Young Readers Choice Awards Master List
New Mexico Land of Enchantment Book Award YA Master List
Tennessee Volunteer State Award Master List
Winner of the 2002 Michigan Reader's Choice Award
Finalist for the Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award
Arizona Young Reader Selection Nominee
Iowa Teen Book Award Nominee
Connecticut’s Nutmeg Award Nominee
Georgia Children’s Book Award Nominee
Maine Student Book Award Nominee
Maryland’s Black-eyed Susan Award Nominee
Vermont’s Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award Nominee
Mister and Me
Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List
Louisiana Young Reader's Choice Master List
New York Library's Top 100 Books for Reading and Sharing
Cuyahoga County Public Library's Children's Books to Read and Own
Junior Library Guild Selection
Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee
Sunshine State Young Reader Award Nominee
Maryland’s Black-eyed Susan Award Nominee
My Louisiana Sky
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor for Fiction
One of ALA's Best Ten Books For Young Adults
An ALA Notable Book for Children
Bank Street College's Josette Frank Award
The Louisiana Literary Award
A Booklist Editor's Choice
One of Booklist's Top Ten First Novels of the Year
A Texas Lone Star Book
A Parenting Magazine Best Book of the Year
San Francisco Chronicle's Best Books Roundup for the Year
Junior Library Guild Selection
A VOYA Outstanding Title of the Year
A Book Links "Book for Lasting Connections"
Oklahoma's Sequoyah Young Adult Master List
Vermont's Dorthy Canfield Fisher Book Award Master List
Finalist for the Kansas Heartland Award for Excellence in YA Literature
Finalist for the Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
Finalist for William Allen White Children's Book Award (Kansas)
Finalist for Georgia Book Award
New Mexico Land of Enchantment Book Award YA Master Reading List
Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Book Award Master List
Sunshine State Young Reader Award Nominee
Iowa Teen Book Award Nominee
Connecticut’s Nutmeg Award Nominee
Maine Student Book Award Nominee
Rhode Island Children’s Book Award
Utah’s Beehive Young Adult Book Award