Awards
Eureka! Children’s Book Award Silver Honor
- Product: One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2015
Family Choice Award Winner
- Product: Ouch Moments: When Words Are Used in Hurtful Ways
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2015
Florida Book Awards Silver Medal
- Product: Knockout Games
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2015
Gateway Readers Award Nominee
- Product: Ashes
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2015
Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Awards Honor
- Product: The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2015
Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Awards Honor
- Product: An Ambush of Tigers: A Wild Gathering of Collective Nouns
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2015
Green Earth Book Award
- Product: Plastic, Ahoy!: Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2015
Green Earth Book Award Honor
- Product: The Case of the Vanishing Honeybees: A Scientific Mystery
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2015
Green Earth Book Award Short List
- Product: A 52-Hertz Whale
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2015
H-E-B Award/Jean Flynn Award for Best Children’s Book Finalist
- Product: Anywhere but Paradise
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2015
Horn Book Best Books of the Year
- Product: Detective Gordon: The First Case
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2015
ILA Teacher's Choices
- Product: Who Was Here?: Discovering Wild Animal Tracks
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2015
Illinois Monarch Award Nominee
- Product: Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2015
Illinois Monarch Award Nominee
- Product: If It Rains Pancakes: Haiku and Lantern Poems
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2015
Instructor Magazine 50 Best Books for Summer
- Product: An Ambush of Tigers: A Wild Gathering of Collective Nouns
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2015
In the Margins: Best Books for Teens Nominee
- Product: Knockout Games
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2015
In the Margins: Best Books for Teens Nominee
- Product: Raising Heaven
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2015
In the Margins: Best Books for Teens Nominee
- Product: Outburst
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2015
Irma S. and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature Honor Book
- Product: You Can Do It, Bert!
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2015
Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor Book
- Product: The Whispering Town
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2015
Jefferson Cup Award Honorable Mention
- Product: A Marked Man: The Assassination of Malcolm X
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2015
Jefferson Cup Award Honorable Mention
- Product: Hey, Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2015
Jefferson Cup Award Honorable Mention
- Product: Tillie Pierce: Teen Eyewitness to the Battle of Gettysburg
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2015
Jefferson Cup Award Honorable Mention
- Product: What I Came to Tell You
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2015