Awards
The Black Caucus of the ALA Best of the Best Booklist
- Product: A Girl Like Me
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2020
Utah Beehive Award Nominee
- Product: My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2020
Utah Beehive Award Nominee
- Product: Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2020
Virginia Readers' Choice Award Nominee
- Product: Paper Butterflies
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2020
Virginia Readers' Choice Award Nominee
- Product: Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2020
Washington Children's Choice Picture Book Award Nominee
- Product: I Got a Chicken for My Birthday
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2020
Western Writers of America Spur Award Winner
- Product: Let 'Er Buck!: George Fletcher, the People's Champion
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2020
William Allen White Children's Book Awards Master List
- Product: Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2020
Writer's League of Texas Book Award Finalist
- Product: All of a Sudden and Forever: Help and Healing after the Oklahoma City Bombing
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2020
YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens
- Product: Sincerely, Harriet
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2020
YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens
- Product: Stage Dreams
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2020
YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
- Product: Monstrous: The Lore, Gore, and Science behind Your Favorite Monsters
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2020
2019 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Longlist
- Product: You're Safe With Me
- Achievement: Long-listed
- Year: 2019
2019 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Nominee
- Product: Camilla, Cartographer
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2019
2019 Writer's League of Texas Award
- Product: Ella McKeen, Kickball Queen
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2019
AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books Finalist
- Product: Dig In!: 12 Easy Gardening Projects Using Kitchen Scraps
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2019
AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books Longlist
- Product: The Great Rhino Rescue: Saving the Southern White Rhinos
- Achievement: Long-listed
- Year: 2019
ABC Best Books for Young Readers
- Product: Mira's Curly Hair
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2019
Aesop Prize
- Product: Raisins and Almonds: A Yiddish Lullaby
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2019
ALA Notable Children's Books
- Product: Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2019
ALA Notable Children's Books
- Product: My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2019
ALA Rainbow List
- Product: Sewing the Rainbow: A Story about Gilbert Baker
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2019
ALA Top 10 Sustainability Themed Children's Book List
- Product: Dig In!: 12 Easy Gardening Projects Using Kitchen Scraps
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2019
ASJA Outstanding Book Award
- Product: Vaccination Investigation: The History and Science of Vaccines
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2019