Awards
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Theoretical Physicist Brian Greene
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Cook Prize Honor Book
- Product: Ada Byron Lovelace & the Thinking Machine
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2016
Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices
- Product: See No Color
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices
- Product: Game Changer: John McLendon and the Secret Game
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices
- Product: The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices
- Product: Out of Darkness
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices
- Product: When I Am Happiest
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices
- Product: Detective Gordon: The First Case
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices
- Product: One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Correll Book Award for Excellence in Early Childhood Informational Text
- Product: Their Great Gift: Courage, Sacrifice, and Hope in a New Land
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Cybils Finalist
- Product: One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2016
Cybils Finalist
- Product: Terrorist: Gavrilo Princip, the Assassin Who Ignited World War I
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2016
Delaware Diamonds Program
- Product: One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2016
Delaware Diamonds Program
- Product: Game Changer: John McLendon and the Secret Game
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2016
Denton Record-Chronicle Best Children’s Picture Book Finalist
- Product: The Nutcracker Comes to America: How Three Ballet-Loving Brothers Created a Holiday Tradition
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2016
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award Reading List
- Product: Guitar Notes
- Achievement: Long-listed
- Year: 2016
Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla Award
- Product: Game Changer: John McLendon and the Secret Game
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Eureka! Children’s Book Gold Award
- Product: Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Evergreen Teen Book Award Nominee
- Product: The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2016
Great Lakes Great Books Award Nominee
- Product: An Ambush of Tigers: A Wild Gathering of Collective Nouns
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2016
Great Lakes Great Books Award Nominee
- Product: Plastic, Ahoy!: Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2016
Green Earth Book Award Short List
- Product: One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2016
ILA Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award
- Product: Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2016
Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee
- Product: Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2016