Outstanding Backlist

A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants: Wicked Weeds and Sinister Seeds

Starred Reviews

• School Library Journal
• Kirkus Reviews

Notable Awards

• YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers Top Ten, Winner, 2025
• School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, Winner, 2024
• Kirkus Best Teen/YA of 2024, Winner, 2024

The Mistakes That Made Us: Confessions from Twenty Poets

Starred Reviews

• Booklist
• Publishers Weekly

Notable Awards

• ALA Notable Children's Book, Winner, 2025
• Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts, Winner, 2025
• Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year 2025, Winner, 2025
• NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels, Winner, 2024

An Etrog from Across the Sea

Notable Awards

• Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner, Winner, 2025

Touch the Sky

Starred Reviews

• Booklist
• Kirkus Reviews

Notable Awards

• ALA Notable Children's Book, Winner, 2025
• Charlotte Zolotow Award Highly Commended Title, Commended, 2025
• Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year 2025, Winner, 2025
• White Raven Book List, Winner, 2025
• Kirkus Best Children's Book of 2024, Winner, 2024

Just Another Story: A Graphic Migration Account

Starred Reviews

• Publishers Weekly
• Kirkus Reviews

Notable Awards

• In the Margins Book Award Nonfiction Recommended List, Commended, 2025
• Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year 2025, Winner, 2025
• Great Graphic Novels for Teens Nominee, Nominated, 2024
• Kirkus Best Teen/YA of 2024, Winner, 2024

Cruzita and the Mariacheros

Starred Reviews

• School Library Journal

Notable Awards

• Pura Belpré Children’s Author Honor Book, Commended, 2025
• ALA Notable Children's Book, Winner, 2025
• Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year 2025, Winner, 2025

The Rock in My Throat

Starred Reviews

• Booklist

Notable Awards

• Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature Picture Book Honor, Commended, 2025
• Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year 2025, Winner, 2025
• Carter G. Woodson Book Award Elementary Level Winner, Winner, 2025
• Booklist Editor's Choice, Winner, 2024

The Observologist: A Handbook for Mounting Very Small Scientific Expeditions

Starred Reviews

• Publishers Weekly
• School Library Journal
• Kirkus Reviews

Notable Awards

• ALA Notable Children's Book, Winner, 2025
• Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year 2025, Winner, 2025
• School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, Winner, 2024
• New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adult Finalist, Short-listed, 2024
• Bank Street Best Children's Book of 2024, Holiday Gift Edition, Winner, 2024

Small Shoes, Great Strides: How Three Brave Girls Opened Doors to School Equality

Starred Reviews

• School Library Journal
• The Horn Book Magazine
• Foreword Reviews
• Publishers Weekly
• Booklist

Notable Awards

• Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year 2024, Winner, 2024
• Booklist Editor's Choice, Winner, 2023

Not So Shy

Notable Awards

• Sydney Taylor Book Award Middle Grade Honor, Commended, 2024

The Moon Is a Ball: Stories of Panda & Squirrel

Notable Awards

• USBBY Outstanding International Books List, Winner, 2024
• CBC Favorite Award, Winner, 2024
• Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year 2024, Winner, 2024

Rise to the Sky: How the World's Tallest Trees Grow Up

Starred Reviews

• School Library Journal
• Booklist
• Publishers Weekly
• Kirkus Reviews

Notable Awards

• Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year 2024, Winner, 2024

Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself

Starred Reviews

• Booklist
• School Library Journal
• Shelf Awareness
• Booklist
• Publishers Weekly

Notable Awards

• NCTE Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels List, Winner, 2024
• Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year 2024, Winner, 2024
• ILA Children’s and Young Adult Book Award Honor Book, Commended, 2024
• Boston Globe Best Books of the Year, Winner, 2023
• YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults, Short-listed, 2023

Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport

Starred Reviews

• School Library Journal
• The Horn Book Magazine
• Kirkus Reviews

Notable Awards

• Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book, Commended, 2024
• ALA Notable Children's Book, Winner, 2024
• National Jewish Book Award Finalist, Runner-up, 2024
• NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Book List, Winner, 2024
• Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year 2024, Winner, 2024

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Starred Reviews

• School Library Journal
• Publishers Weekly
• Kirkus Reviews

Notable Awards

• NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12, Winner, 2023
• Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2023
• Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year for Young Adults, Winner, 2022
• Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year, Winner, 2022

Torch

Starred Reviews

• School Library Journal
• Booklist
• Publishers Weekly
• Kirkus Reviews

Notable Awards

• L.A. Times Book Prize Winner, Winner, 2023
• Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2023
• Booklist Editors' Choice, Winner, 2022
• Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year, Winner, 2022