Awards
NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
- Product: Lots of Grandparents
- Achievement: Winner
- 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
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: Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
Parents' Choice Award
- Product: Family
- 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: Death on Sacred Ground
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2001
Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable
- Product: The Hardest Word: A Yom Kippur Story
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2001
UNESCO Prize for Children's and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance
- Product: The War
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
American Bookseller Kids' Pick of the Lists
- Product: Danger at Sand Cave
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2000
American Bookseller Kids' Pick of the Lists
- Product: The Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2000
American Bookseller Kids' Pick of the Lists
- Product: Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2000
American Bookseller Kids' Pick of the Lists
- Product: An Unbroken Chain: My Journey through the Nazi Holocaust
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2000
American Bookseller Kids' Pick of the Lists
- Product: Jellies: The Life of Jellyfish
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2000
American Bookseller Kids' Pick of the Lists
- Product: Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective?
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2000
American Bookseller Kids' Pick of the Lists
- Product: Hillary to the Rescue
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2000
Bluestem Award Nominee
- Product: Little Wolf's Book of Badness
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2000
Book-of-the-Month Children's Club Selection
- Product: Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective?
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2000