Awards
NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts
- Product: No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2013
NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts
- Product: A Leaf Can Be . . .
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2013
New York Public Library Best Books for Kids
- Product: Ick! Yuck! Eew!: Our Gross American History
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2013
New York Public Library Best Books for Kids
- Product: Spider Stampede
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2013
New York Public Library Best Books for Kids
- Product: Miracle Mud: Lena Blackburne and the Secret Mud That Changed Baseball
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2013
New York Public Library Best Books for Kids
- Product: The Case of the Vanishing Honeybees: A Scientific Mystery
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2013
New York Times Notable Children's Books
- Product: Hannah's Night
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2013
New York Times Notable Children's Books
- Product: My Happy Life
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2013
New York Times Notable Children's Books
- Product: My Happy Life
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2013
Notable Books for a Global Society Notable Book
- Product: No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2013
Notable Books for a Global Society Notable Book
- Product: A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2013
NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12
- Product: The Long, Long Journey: The Godwit's Amazing Migration
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2013
Okra Pick
- Product: What I Came to Tell You
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2013
Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book
- Product: The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs: A Scientific Mystery
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2013
Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
- Product: Sex & Violence
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2013
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Master List
- Product: I, Emma Freke
- Achievement: Long-listed
- Year: 2013
Red Clover Picture Book Award Nominee
- Product: Infinity and Me
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2013
Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee
- Product: What Can't Wait
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2013
Riverby Award
- Product: A Leaf Can Be . . .
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2013
School Library Journal Best Book
- Product: The Long, Long Journey: The Godwit's Amazing Migration
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2013
Society of Midland Authors Award Runner-Up
- Product: Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature's Undead
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2013
SSLI Book Award Best Book
- Product: Meltdown!: The Nuclear Disaster in Japan and Our Energy Future
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2013
SSLI Book Award Honor Book
- Product: Allergies
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2013
SSLI Book Award Honor Book
- Product: Petticoats and Frock Coats: Revolution and Victorian-Age Fashions from the 1770s to the 1860s
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2013