Outstanding Backlist

Artie and the Wolf Moon

Starred Reviews

Notable Awards

  • ALA Rainbow Reading List, Winner, 2023
  • YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers Nominee, Nominated, 2022
  • YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens Nominee, Nominated, 2021

Where I Belong

Starred Reviews

Notable Awards

  • Pura Belpré Young Adult Author Honor, Commended, 2022
  • In the Margins: Best Books for Teens, Winner, 2022
  • Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2022
  • ILA Children's and Young Adult Book Award in Fiction, Commended, 2022
  • Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year, Winner, 2021

How to Build an Insect

Starred Reviews

Notable Awards

  • The German edition Komm, wir entdecken ein Insekt! was nominated for the German Children's Literature Award in the Nonfiction Category, Nominated, 2024
  • 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

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

  • 2021 USBBY Outstanding International Book, 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

Like Spilled Water

Starred Reviews

Notable Awards

  • YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, Nominated, 2022
  • In the Margins: Fiction List, 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

Into the Streets: A Young Person's Visual History of Protest in the United States

Starred Reviews

Notable Awards

  • In the Margins: Best Books for Teens, Winner, 2021
  • Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2021

Numbers in Motion: Sophie Kowalevski, Queen of Mathematics

Notable Awards

  • NSTA/CBC Best STEM Books for Students, Winner, 2020

Earth Day and the Environmental Movement: Standing Up for Earth

Starred Reviews

Notable Awards

  • Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2021

All the Dear Little Animals

Starred Reviews

Notable Awards

  • 2021 USBBY Outstanding International Book, Winner, 2021
  • Kirkus Best Children's Books, Winner, 2020

Beautiful Shades of Brown: The Art of Laura Wheeler Waring

Notable Awards

  • Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2021
  • Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, Winner, 2020