Outstanding Backlist
Escape: One Day We Had to Run . . .
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- Best Middle-Grade Book, Winner, 2021
- Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Nonfiction Book, Winner, 2021
How to Build an Insect
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- NCTE Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts, Winner, 2022
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2022
Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- Orbis Pictus Honor Book, Short-listed, 2022
- American Indian Youth Literature Awards Honor Book, Commended, 2022
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2022
- Septima Clark Women in Literature Award Honor Book, Commended, 2022
- Kirkus Best Children's Books, Winner, 2021
Planet Ocean: Why We All Need a Healthy Ocean
Notable Awards
- Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book, Commended, 2022
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2022
The Secret Life of Kitty Granger
Notable Awards
- YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, Nominated, 2022
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2022
The Floating Field: How a Group of Thai Boys Built Their Own Soccer Field
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2022
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, Winner, 2022
- Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor Book, Commended, 2022
- Randolph Caldecott Medal Honor Book, Commended, 2022
- Coretta Scott King Author Award, Winner, 2022
- ALA Notable Children's Books, Winner, 2022
Can You Whistle, Johanna?
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Fiction Book, Winner, 2021
- Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Book, Winner, 2021
The Most Beautiful Thing
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- ALA Notable Children's Books, Winner, 2021
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2021
- Kirkus Best Children's Books, Winner, 2020
- NPR Best Books of the Year, Winner, 2020
Migrants
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2021
- Kirkus Best Children's Books, Winner, 2020
Kiyo Sato: From a WWII Japanese Internment Camp to a Life of Service
Notable Awards
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2021
Like Spilled Water
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, Nominated, 2022
- In the Margins: Fiction List, Short-listed, 2022
The Great Bear Rescue: Saving the Gobi Bears
From the Series Sandra Markle's Science Discoveries
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books, Short-listed, 2022
A Bowl Full of Peace: A True Story
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Nominee, Nominated, 2021
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2021
- Kirkus Best Children's Books, Winner, 2020