Outstanding Backlist
Santa Clauses: Short Poems from the North Pole
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- NCTE Notable Poetry List, Winner, 2015
Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- ILA Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award, Winner, 2016
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2015
- NCTE Notable Poetry List, Winner, 2015
I Remember Beirut
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens, Winner, 2015
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2015
When Lunch Fights Back: Wickedly Clever Animal Defenses
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2015
Water Can Be . . .
From the Series Can Be . . . Books
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- Charlotte Zolotow Award Highly Commended Title, Commended, 2015
The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist, Commended, 2015
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, Short-listed, 2015
- YALSA Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults, Winner, 2015
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2015
- Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year, Winner, 2014
Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2014
A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- YALSA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults, Winner, 2014
- YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens, Winner, 2013
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2013
- ALA Notable Children's Books, Winner, 2012
- Batchelder Award Honor Book, Commended, 2012
Little White Duck: A Childhood in China
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2013
- Kirkus Best Children's Books, Winner, 2012
- School Library Journal Best Book, Winner, 2012
- Shelf Awareness 10 Best Books of the Year, Winner, 2012
- Horn Book Best Books of the Year, Winner, 2012
Infinity and Me
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2013
- ALA Notable Children's Books, Winner, 2012
- New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book, Winner, 2012
Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature's Undead
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- Kirkus Best Children's Books, Winner, 2013
- ALA Notable Children's Books, Winner, 2012
Ruth and the Green Book
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- ALA Notable Children's Books, Winner, 2010
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2010
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- Coretta Scott King Author Award, Winner, 2009
- ALA Notable Children's Books, Winner, 2009
- Carter G. Woodson Book Award Honor, Commended, 2009
- NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, Winner, 2009
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- ALA Notable Children's Books, Winner, 2009
- NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, Winner, 2009
- NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12, Winner, 2009
- Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book, Commended, 2009
- School Library Journal Best Book, Winner, 2009
Spring 2023
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H. L. Hunley
Starred Reviews
Notable Awards
- Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal, Winner, 2006
- ALA Notable Children's Books, Winner, 2005
- Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2005
- ILA Teacher's Choices, Winner, 2005
- Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book, Commended, 2005