Awards
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
National Jewish Book Award Finalist
- Product: Nachshon, Who Was Afraid to Swim: A Passover Story
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2009
NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
- Product: Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
- Product: Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
New Mexico-Arizona Book Award
- Product: Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
Notable Books for a Global Society Notable Book
- Product: Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12
- Product: Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book
- Product: Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2009
SCBWI Golden Kite Award Honor
- Product: Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2009
School Library Journal Best Book
- Product: Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
School Library Journal Best Book
- Product: Looking Like Me
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
Science Books & Films Best Books
- Product: Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
SSLI Book Award Honor Book
- Product: A Savanna Food Chain: A Who-Eats-What Adventure in Africa
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2009
SSLI Book Award Honor Book
- Product: Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2009
Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor
- Product: Benjamin and the Silver Goblet
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2009
Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor
- Product: Nachshon, Who Was Afraid to Swim: A Passover Story
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2009
Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable
- Product: The Secret Shofar of Barcelona
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2009
Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable
- Product: Menorah Under the Sea
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2009
Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable
- Product: Sukkot Treasure Hunt
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2009
Tayshas Reading List
- Product: Candor
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
Tayshas Reading List
- Product: Wish You Were Dead
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
Tayshas Reading List
- Product: Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009
Texas Library Association Lone Star Reading List
- Product: Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2009