Awards
Booklist Top 10 Series Nonfiction
- Product: What to Expect When You're Expecting Hatchlings: A Guide for Crocodilian Parents (and Curious Kids)
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
- Product: No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children
- Product: No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children
- Product: Infinity and Me
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
CBC Children's Choices
- Product: Play Ball, Jackie!
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books
- Product: Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature's Undead
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books
- Product: Their Skeletons Speak: Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican World
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books
- Product: The Main Event: The Moves and Muscle of Pro Wrestling
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books
- Product: No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: We Stand as One: The International Ladies Garment Workers Strike, New York, 1909
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: What to Expect When You're Expecting Larvae: A Guide for Insect Parents (and Curious Kids)
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Who Will Shout If Not Us?: Student Activists and the Tiananmen Square Protest, China, 1989
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Gracie the Lighthouse Cat
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: You Will Call Me Drog
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Cool! Whoa! Ah and Oh!: What Is an Interjection?
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Ghost Diamond!
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Blue Gem: Case 3
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Say Something, Perico
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: The Many Faces of George Washington: Remaking a Presidential Icon
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Lightning, Hurricanes, and Blizzards: The Science of Storms
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Journey into the Deep: Discovering New Ocean Creatures
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: I'm Sure I Saw a Dinosaur
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: I Want a Party!
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: The Great Moon Hoax
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012