Awards
NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts
- Product: The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts
- Product: A Spectacular Selection of Sea Critters: Concrete Poems
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Nebraska Golden Sower Award Nominee
- Product: One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2016
New York Public Library Best Books for Kids
- Product: The Great Monkey Rescue: Saving the Golden Lion Tamarins
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
New York Public Library Best Books for Kids
- Product: The Midnight War of Mateo Martinez
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
New York Public Library Best Books for Kids
- Product: The Bolds
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
New York Public Library Best Books for Kids
- Product: The Great Leopard Rescue: Saving the Amur Leopards
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
New York Public Library Best Books for Kids
- Product: Like a Bird: The Art of the American Slave Song
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
New York Public Library Best Books for Kids
- Product: The Island of Beyond
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
New York Public Library Best Books for Teens
- Product: Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
New York Public Library Best Books for Teens
- Product: Feminism: Reinventing the F-Word
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Notable Books for a Global Society Notable Book
- Product: Game Changer: John McLendon and the Secret Game
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
NPR Best Books of the Year
- Product: Don't Call Me Grandma
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12
- Product: Ada Byron Lovelace & the Thinking Machine
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2016
Nutmeg Award Nominee
- Product: One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2016
OLA Best Bets Young Adult Fiction
- Product: Prairie Fire
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book
- Product: Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2016
Oregon Reader's Choice Award Nominee
- Product: The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2016
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards Master List
- Product: The Scar Boys
- Achievement: Long-listed
- Year: 2016
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards Master List
- Product: Chernobyl's Wild Kingdom: Life in the Dead Zone
- Achievement: Long-listed
- Year: 2016
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Master List
- Product: The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim
- Achievement: Long-listed
- Year: 2016
SCBWI Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor Book
- Product: Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2016
SCBWI Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Honor Book
- Product: Feeding the Flying Fanellis: And Other Poems from a Circus Chef
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2016
School Library Journal Best Book
- Product: Detective Gordon: A Complicated Case
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016