Awards
Booklist Top 10 Books on the Environment for Youth
- Product: Oil Spill!: Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Booklist Top 10 SciFi/Fantasy for Youth
- Product: The Loners
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Booklist Top 10 Series Nonfiction
- Product: What to Expect When You're Expecting Larvae: A Guide for Insect Parents (and Curious Kids)
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Booklist Top 10 Series Nonfiction
- Product: What to Expect When You're Expecting Joeys: A Guide for Marsupial Parents (and Curious Kids)
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
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: Infinity and Me
- 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
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: 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
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books
- Product: Their Skeletons Speak: Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican World
- 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
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: Zombie Cows!
- 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: 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: 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: Warduff and the Corncob Caper
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Ticks: Dangerous Hitchhikers
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: The Talent Show
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: The Sunflower Sword
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Six Sheep Sip Thick Shakes: And Other Tricky Tongue Twisters
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012