Awards
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: The War
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Horse Sense: The Story of Will Sasse, His Horse Star, and the Outlaw Jesse James
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: President of the Underground Railroad: A Story about Levi Coffin
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Johnny Appleseed
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
Children's Literature Choice List
- Product: Death on Sacred Ground
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
Children's Resources Silver Award
- Product: Harriet and George's Christmas Treat
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2001
Joan G. Sugarman Children's Book Award Honorable Mention
- Product: Death on Sacred Ground
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2001
Joan G. Sugarman Children's Book Award Honorable Mention
- Product: The Hardest Word: A Yom Kippur Story
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2001
Joan G. Sugarman Children's Book Award Honorable Mention
- Product: The Shabbat Box
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2001
National Jewish Book Award Finalist
- Product: The Hardest Word: A Yom Kippur Story
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2001
NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
- Product: The War
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
- Product: Family
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
- Product: Lots of Grandparents
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12
- Product: George Washington Carver
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
NYPL Books for the Teen Age
- Product: Death on Sacred Ground
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
Parents' Choice Award
- Product: Family
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
Parents' Choice Award
- Product: Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
Pennsylvania School Librarians Association Young Adult Top Forty
- Product: Science Fiction Pioneer: A Story about Jules Verne
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
Science Books & Films Best Books
- Product: Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
SSLI Book Award Best Book
- Product: A Walk in the Rain Forest
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
SSLI Book Award Honor Book
- Product: Earth Cycles
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2001
Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable
- Product: The Shabbat Box
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2001
Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable
- Product: The Hardest Word: A Yom Kippur Story
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2001
Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable
- Product: Death on Sacred Ground
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2001