Awards
Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor Book
- Product: The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2016
Julia Ward Howe Book Awards Finalist
- Product: Either the Beginning or the End of the World
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2016
Kirkus Best Children's Books
- Product: Have You Seen Elephant?
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Kirkus Best Children's Books
- Product: Plants Can't Sit Still
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Books of the Year
- Product: The Bolds
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Books of the Year
- Product: The Secret of Goldenrod
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Books of the Year
- Product: The Midnight War of Mateo Martinez
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Books of the Year
- Product: Life According to Dani
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Land of Enchantment Book Award Readling List Selection
- Product: Like a Bird: The Art of the American Slave Song
- Achievement: Long-listed
- Year: 2016
Louisiana Teen Choice Award Nominee
- Product: The Bunker Diary
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2016
Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Honor Book
- Product: Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2016
Maine Literary Book Award
- Product: Either the Beginning or the End of the World
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award Nominee
- Product: The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2016
Michael L. Printz Honor Book
- Product: Out of Darkness
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2016
National Book Award for Young People's Literature Longlist
- Product: Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
- Achievement: Long-listed
- Year: 2016
National Endowment for the Humanities Nonfiction Booklist for Young Readers
- Product: Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H. L. Hunley
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
National Endowment for the Humanities Nonfiction Booklist for Young Readers
- Product: Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
National Endowment for the Humanities Nonfiction Booklist for Young Readers
- Product: Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
National Endowment for the Humanities Nonfiction Booklist for Young Readers
- Product: Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Ša, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
National Endowment for the Humanities Nonfiction Booklist for Young Readers
- Product: Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
National Endowment for the Humanities Nonfiction Booklist for Young Readers
- Product: Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Nautilus Awards Gold Medal
- Product: Emily Grace and the What-Ifs: A Story for Children about Nighttime Fears
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books
- Product: One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts
- Product: An Ambush of Tigers: A Wild Gathering of Collective Nouns
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016





















