Awards
Flicker Tale Children's Choice Book Award
- Product: Snake and Lizard
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2011
ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award Nominee
- Product: Dear Teen Me: Authors Write Letters to Their Teen Selves
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2011
ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Bronze Award
- Product: Ruth and the Green Book
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2011
ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Bronze Award
- Product: Frozen Secrets: Antarctica Revealed
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2011
Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers Nominee
- Product: Notes from the Blender
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2011
Green Earth Book Award
- Product: Mallory Goes Green!
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2011
Green Earth Book Award Honor
- Product: Garbage Helps Our Garden Grow: A Compost Story
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2011
Horned Toad Tales List Nominee
- Product: Animal Heroes: True Rescue Stories
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2011
Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee
- Product: The False Princess
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2011
Jane Addams Children's Book Award Honor Book
- Product: Ruth and the Green Book
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2011
Jefferson Cup Award Honor Book
- Product: Ruth and the Green Book
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2011
Kentucky Bluegrass Award Master List
- Product: What Can't Wait
- Achievement: Long-listed
- Year: 2011
Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year
- Product: Brooklyn, Burning
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2011
Learning Magazine Teachers' Choice Award
- Product: Spiky, Slimy, Smooth: What Is Texture?
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2011
Los Angeles Public Library Best of 2011: Young Adult Books
- Product: Brooklyn, Burning
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2011
Mockingbird Reading Program Reading List
- Product: Big Bouffant
- Achievement: Long-listed
- Year: 2011
National Jewish Book Award Finalist
- Product: An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2011
National Jewish Book Award Finalist
- Product: Feivel's Flying Horses
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2011
Orbis Pictus Award Honor
- Product: Journey into the Deep: Discovering New Ocean Creatures
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2011
PEN Center USA Literary Award Finalist
- Product: The Freak Observer
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2011
Pennsylvania School Librarians Association Young Adult Top Forty
- Product: You Are Now on Indian Land: The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island, California, 1969
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2011
Pennsylvania School Librarians Association Young Adult Top Forty
- Product: Who Will Shout If Not Us?: Student Activists and the Tiananmen Square Protest, China, 1989
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2011
Pennsylvania School Librarians Association Young Adult Top Forty
- Product: The Force Born of Truth: Mohandas Gandhi and the Salt March, India, 1930
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2011
Pennsylvania School Librarians Association Young Adult Top Forty
- Product: We Stand as One: The International Ladies Garment Workers Strike, New York, 1909
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2011