Outstanding Backlist
Eavesdropping on Elephants: How Listening Helps Conservation
Notable Awards
- NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books, Winner, 2019
- Children’s Book Committee at the Bank Street Center for Children’s Literature Best Children’s Books of the Year, Winner, 2019
No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts, Winner, 2013
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2013
- YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, Winner, 2013
- Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year, Winner, 2012
- Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, Winner, 2012
Seeing into Tomorrow: Haiku by Richard Wright
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- NCTE Notable Poetry Books, Winner, 2019
- School Library Journal Best Book, Winner, 2018
Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- NCTE Notable Poetry Books, Winner, 2019
- ALA Notable Children's Books, Winner, 2019
- Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Books of the Year, Winner, 2018
Snowy Owl Invasion!: Tracking an Unusual Migration
From the Series Sandra Markle's Science Discoveries
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books, Winner, 2019
- Children’s Book Committee at the Bank Street Center for Children’s Literature Best Children’s Books of the Year, Winner, 2019
- Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Books of the Year, Winner, 2018
Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- ALA Notable Children's Books, Winner, 2018
- NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, Winner, 2018
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2018
- Orbis Pictus Award Honor, Short-listed, 2017
Locked Up for Freedom: Civil Rights Protesters at the Leesburg Stockade
Notable Awards
- NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, Winner, 2018
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2018
The Great Penguin Rescue: Saving the African Penguins
From the Series Sandra Markle's Science Discoveries
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12, Winner, 2017
What Girls Are Made Of
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- Best Fiction for Young Adults Top Ten, Winner, 2018
- ILA Young Adults' Choices, Winner, 2018
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2018
- National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist, Short-listed, 2017
- Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year, Winner, 2017
Niko Draws a Feeling
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book, Short-listed, 2018
- NCTE Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts, Winner, 2018
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2018
- MIBA Midwest Connections Pick, Runner-up, 2017
Yours Sincerely, Giraffe
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- USBBY Outstanding International Books List, Winner, 2018
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2018
- Kirkus Best Children's Books, Winner, 2017
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Power of a Protest Song
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- ALA Notable Children's Books, Winner, 2018
- NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, Winner, 2018
- NCTE Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts, Winner, 2017
- Kirkus Best Children's Books, Winner, 2017
Sea Otter Heroes: The Predators That Saved an Ecosystem
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- ALA Notable Children's Books, Winner, 2018
- Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor Book, Commended, 2018
- AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books Longlist, Long-listed, 2017
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor Book, Commended, 2017
- NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, Winner, 2017
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year - Outstanding Merit, Winner, 2017
- ILA Teacher's Choices, Winner, 2017
- Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book, Commended, 2016
Plants Can't Sit Still
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts, Winner, 2017
- Kirkus Best Children's Books, Winner, 2016
Their Great Gift: Courage, Sacrifice, and Hope in a New Land
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, Winner, 2017
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2016
- NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts, Winner, 2016
- Kirkus Best Children's Books, Winner, 2015
- Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, Commended, 2015
- ALA Notable Children's Books, Winner, 2015