Awards
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
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: Hey, Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band
- 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: What I Came to Tell You
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2015
Jefferson Cup Award Honorable Mention
- Product: Tillie Pierce: Teen Eyewitness to the Battle of Gettysburg
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2015
Kirkus Best Children's Books
- Product: When Dad Showed Me the Universe
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2015
Kirkus Best Children's Books
- Product: The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2015
Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Books of the Year
- Product: Detective Gordon: The First Case
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2015
Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year
- Product: Out of Darkness
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2015
Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year
- Product: See No Color
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2015
Learning Magazine Teachers' Choice Award
- Product: Vampire Bats: Nighttime Flying Mammals
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2015
Learning Magazine Teachers' Choice Award
- Product: Grizzly Bears: Huge Hibernating Mammals
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2015
Learning Magazine Teachers' Choice Award
- Product: Mountain Gorillas: Powerful Forest Mammals
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2015
Learning Magazine Teachers' Choice Award
- Product: Platypuses: Web-Footed Billed Mammals
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2015
Learning Magazine Teachers' Choice Award
- Product: Siberian Tigers: Camouflaged Hunting Mammals
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2015
Learning Magazine Teachers' Choice Award
- Product: African Elephants: Massive Tusked Mammals
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2015
Learning Magazine Teachers' Choice Award
- Product: Humpback Whales: Musical Migrating Mammals
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2015
Learning Magazine Teachers' Choice Award
- Product: Gray Wolves: Howling Pack Mammals
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2015
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
- Product: The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2015
Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Nominee
- Product: Hey, Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2015
Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Nominee
- Product: Odd, Weird & Little
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2015