Awards
Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year
- Product: No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year
- Product: Wrapped Up in You: Book 6
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Los Angeles Public Library Best of 2012 Teen Books
- Product: A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Maine Chickadee Award Nominee
- Product: Infinity and Me
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2012
Massachusetts Book Awards Must Read YA List
- Product: Everything I Was
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books
- Product: The Little Black Dress and Zoot Suits: Depression and Wartime Fashions from the 1930s to the 1950s
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
New Mexico-Arizona Book Award
- Product: No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
New York Public Library Best Books for Kids
- Product: The White Zone
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
New York Public Library Best Books for Kids
- Product: H.O.R.S.E.
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
New York Public Library Best Books for Kids
- Product: Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature's Undead
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
New York Public Library Best Books for Kids
- Product: Little White Duck: A Childhood in China
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book
- Product: Infinity and Me
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
New York Times Notable Children's Books
- Product: The Day Louis Got Eaten
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12
- Product: Forensic Identification: Putting a Name and Face on Death
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Nutmeg Award Nominee
- Product: Guitar Notes
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2012
Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
- Product: No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
San Diego Book Award
- Product: Who Was Sitting Bull?: And Other Questions about the Battle of Little Bighorn
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
School Library Journal Best Book
- Product: Little White Duck: A Childhood in China
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
School Library Journal Best Book
- Product: Their Skeletons Speak: Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican World
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
School Library Journal Best Book
- Product: No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
School Library Journal Top Books for Youth in Detention
- Product: The Knife and the Butterfly
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Science Books & Films Best Books
- Product: Tortoise, Tree Snake, Gator, and Sea Snake: What Is a Reptile?
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Science Books & Films Best Books
- Product: Exploring the International Space Station
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Science Books & Films Best Books
- Product: Exploring Space Robots
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012