Awards
Book Links Lasting Connection
- Product: The Vermeer Interviews: Conversations with Seven Works of Art
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
Booklist Top 10 Series Nonfiction
- Product: Oprah Winfrey: Global Media Leader
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
Booklist Top 10 Series Nonfiction
- Product: Vera Wang: Enduring Style
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
California Young Reader Medal Nominee
- Product: Invisible Lines
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2009
Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children
- Product: Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children
- Product: Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
Carter G. Woodson Book Award Honor
- Product: Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2009
CBC Children's Choices
- Product: Pigling: A Cinderella Story [A Korean Tale]
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books
- Product: Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Bedtime Without Arthur
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
Children's Crown Award Nominee
- Product: The Vermeer Interviews: Conversations with Seven Works of Art
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2009
Children's Crown Award Nominee
- Product: Animal Heroes: True Rescue Stories
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2009
Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices
- Product: Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices
- Product: Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices
- Product: Menorah Under the Sea
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices
- Product: Monkey with a Tool Belt and the Noisy Problem
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
Coretta Scott King Author Award
- Product: Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
Cybils Finalist
- Product: Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2009
ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award
- Product: The Steel Pan Man of Harlem
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2009
ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award Finalist
- Product: Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2009
ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award Finalist
- Product: Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2009
Garden State Teen Book Award Nominee
- Product: Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2009
Grand Canyon Reader Award Reading List
- Product: Jackson and Bud's Bumpy Ride: America's First Cross-Country Automobile Trip
- Achievement: Long-listed
- Year: 2009
ILA Teacher's Choices
- Product: Animal Heroes: True Rescue Stories
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009