Awards
Empanadas for Everyone by Jackie Azua Kramer (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
Silver Award, Best Fiction Picture Book, International Latino Book Awards.
The Third Gilmore Girl Ghostwritten by Lindsay Harrison (Gallery Books, 2024)
New York Times bestseller
Night Owl Night by Susan Edwards Richmond (Charlesbridge Publishing, 2025)
Massachusetts Book Award Honor winner
Werewolf Hamlet by Kerry Madden-Lunsford (Charlesbridge Publishing, 2025)
Junior Library Guild Selection
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen, 2023)
Kirkus Reviews Best YA Book of the Year
The Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book
Booklist Editors’ Choice
Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year
SLJ Best Book of the Year
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book
Kids' Indie Next Selection
Instant New York Times Bestseller
Instant Indie Bestseller
Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen, 2024)
Starred Review in Kirkus
#4 on New York Times Bestseller list
Rooting for Plants by Janice S. Harrington (Calkins Creek/Astra, 2023)
Bank Street 2024 Best Book for Harrington
Night Owl Night by Susan Edwards Richmond (Charlesbridge, 2023)
Bank Street 2024 Best Book for Richmond
Rolling On Down the Line by Helen Kampion and Renee Critcher Lyons (Sleeping Bear, 2024)
Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
California Reading Association 2024 Eureka Silver Award for Nonfiction
The Lobster Lady by Alexandra Hinrichs (Charlesbridge, 2023)
Lupine Award for picture books, Maine Library Association
There Are No Dragons in this Book by Donna Weidner (NorthSouth Books, 2024)
Finalist, The German Children's Literature Award
Frances and the Werewolves of the Black Forest by Refe Tuma (Harper Childrens, 2023)
Finalist, The Bram Stoker Award
The Last Apple Tree by Claudia Mills (Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House due June 18, 2024)
Junior Library Guild Selection
Starred Review in Kirkus
Lily Leads the Way by Margi Preus (Candlewick, 2022)
Northeastern Minnesota Children's Literature Award
Swarm by Jennifer D. Lyle (Sourcebooks Inc., 2023)
Junior Library Guild Selection
The Fog Catcher's Daughter by Marianne McShane, illustrated by Alan Marks (Candlewick Press, 2022)
Long-listed for the UK's prestigious Carnegie Medal
Other Side of the Tracks by Charity Alyse (Denene Millner Books, 2022)
Starred Review in School Library Journal
You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce! by Chiquita Mullins Lee and Carmella Van Vleet (Kokila, 2023)
Starred Review in Booklist
Starred Review in Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
Starred Review in School Library Connection
Booklist Editors' Choice Best Book 2023
A Center for the Study of Multicultural Literature Best Book 2023
Named a 2023 Best of the Best Book, Black Caucus of the American Library Association
CCBC Choices 2024, annual best-of-the-year list, Cooperative Children’s Book Center
2024 Great Reads title for Ohio, Centers for the Book, Library of Congress
Elephants Remember by Jennifer O'Connell (Tilbury House, 2022)
Starred Review in Booklist
Frances and the Monster by Refe Tuma (Harper Childrens, 2022)
Starred Review in Publisher's Weekly
Close Up on War by Mary Cronk Farrell (Abrams, 2022)
Starred Review in Kirkus
Starred Review in Booklist
Starred Review in School Library Journal
Starred Review in Publisher's Weekly
Wake the Bones by Elizabeth Kilcoyne (Wednesday Books, 2022)
Starred Review in Kirkus
Starred Review in Publisher's Weekly
Everything Together by Benjamin Klas (One Elm Books, 2021)
Independent Booksellers Association's Ben Franklin Award
Nautilus Book Awards Gold Medal for Middle-Grade Fiction
2022 Stepping Stones Honor Award for Multicultural and International Books
Windswept by Margi Preus (Abrams, 2022)
Junior Library Guild Selection
Treasure Tracks by Sallie Anne Rodriguez (FSG, 2022)
Junior Library Guild Selection
Florida's Sunshine State's Young Readers Award finalist
2023-24 Sunshine State Young Readers Award finalist
Nothing is Little by Carmella Van Vleet (Holiday House, 2022)
Junior Library Guild Selection
Rhode Island Children's Book Award Finalist
Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen, 2022)
#6 on the New York Times Bestseller, June 2022
Starred Review in Kirkus
Starred Review in Booklist
Starred Review in Publisher's Weekly
Named One of the 10 Best YA Books of 2022 by Publisher's Weekly
Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn (TOR.com, 2021)
Nebula Award Nominee
The Lost Language by Claudia Mills (Holiday House, 2021)
Junior Library Guild Selection
2021 Blue Ribbon Book by the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (BCCB)
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk (Sourcebooks, 2022)
Library Reads Pick for January 2022
Canadian Independent Bookseller's Best Seller List
Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots by Marcia Thornton Jones, Debbie Dadey and Pearl Low (Graphix 2021)
Selected for "The Very Best Comics of 2021" list by Nerdist.com
Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (Tordotcom, 2021)
NPR Best Book of the Year
Named One of the 15 Best Books by LGBTQ+ Authors by NBC News
I Wish You Knew by Jackie Azúa Kramer (Roaring Brook, 2021)
Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
Boogie Bass, Sign Language Star, book #4 in the After-School Superstars series by Claudia Mills (Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House, 2021)
Junior Library Guild Selection
Journey Beyond the Burrow by Rina Heisel (Harper Childrens, 2021)
Junior Library Guild Selection
Benjamin Klas's middle-grade debut novel Second Dad Summer (One Elm, 2020) ALA's 2021 Rainbow Book List by the LGTB Round Table
2020 Nautilus Book Award's Silver Award for Middle-Grade Fiction
The Littlest Voyageur by Margi Preus (Holiday House, 2020)
Received the Northern Lights Award for Middle-Grade Historical Fiction
The Historical Novel Society, Editor's Choice (May issue)
The Boy and the Gorilla by Jackie Azúa Kramer (Candlewick Press, 2020)
Starred Review in Kirkus
SCBWI Crystal Kite Award
Bank Street College 2021 Best Children's Book of the Year
Bronze Award in Japan’s Kembuchi Picture Book Awards
Nothing General About It: How Love (and Lithium) Saved Me On and Off General Hospital by Maurice Benard (HarperCollins, 2020)
Instant New York Times Bestseller
Mental Health America Award
Christopher Award
Standing Up Against Hate: How Black Women in the Army Helped Change the Course of WWII by Mary Cronk Farrell (Abrams, 2019)
A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
Buzzing with Questions by Janice Harrington (Calkins Creek/Boyds Mills Kane, 2019)
Selected by NSTA & CBC as 2020 Best STEM Book
Selected as a 2023 Illinois Read
Village of Scoundrels by Margi Preus (Abrams/Amulet, 2020)
Junior Library Guild Selection
Simone Biles: Making a Case for the Greatest of All Time by Susan Blackaby (Sterling, 2019)
Starred Review in Kirkus
Eliza Bing is (Not) a Star by Carmella Van Vleet (Holiday House, 2018)
Junior Library Guild Selection
The Jumbie God's Revenge by Tracey Baptiste (Algonquin Books for Young Readers, 2019)
Starred Review in Kirkus
Publishers Weekly Noteworthy Novel Sequel, September 2019
Claudia Mills won the Kerlan Award from the University of Minnesota on March 27, 2019 for her contribution to children's literature.
Survivor Girl by Erin Teagan (Clarion, 2019)
Junior Library Guild Selection
The Clue in the Trees by Margi Preus (University of Minnesota Press, 2017)
Midwest Bookseller's Choice Award
Black Sheep White Crow and Other Windmill Tales: Stories from Navajo Country by Jim Kristofic (University of New Mexico Press, 2017)
2018 Skipping Stones Honor Book
A Whale in Paris by Claire Polders and Daniel Presley (Atheneum, 2018)
Scholastic Teacher's list of Magical Summer Reads for 3-5 graders
Barnes & Noble Kids list of top 10 new middle grade books
Horned Toad Tales 2019-2020 Award Title
Tome Society Elementary School IT List Book
Minecraft: The Crash by Tracey Baptiste (Del Rey, 2018)
#5 on The New York Times Bestseller List, July 2018
Alice Paul & the Fight for Women's Rights by Deborah Kops (Boyds Mills Press, 2017)
Bank Street 2018 Best Books of the Year
Fannie Never Flinched (Abrams, 2017)
2018 Amelia Bloomer List
Green Green: A Community Gardening Story by Marie and Baldev Lamba, illustrated by Sonia Sanchez (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017)
2019 BookRiot List of the Best Children's Books About Health and Safety
2018 PA-DE American Society of Landscape Architects Merit Award,
Communications Category
2018-2019 Read on Wisconsin (ROW) Reading List title
CBC and NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2018
2017 Best in Rhyme Award nominee
National Aquarium's Fall 2017 Reef to Read Book Club List
Cooperative Children’s Book Center's Choices 2018 Best of the Year List -
Picture Books for Young Children
2020 BookRiot List of 10 Picture Books for the Budding Environmentalist
Rise of the Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste (Algonquin Books for Young Readers, 2017)
Starred review in Kirkus
Starred review in School Library Journal
Junior Library Guild Selection
A School Library Journal Best Book 2017
A Kirkus Best Middle Grade Fantasy of 2017
An NPR Best Book of 2017
A Bank Street's Best Children's Book of the Year 2018
The Green Umbrella by Jackie Kramer (North-South Books, 2017)
A 2017 Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
2017 Chidren's Choice Silver Medal Winner
Best Spanish Language Picture Books of 2023 by Bank
Street College
Catching a Storyfish by Janice Harrington (Boyds Mills Press, 2016)
Arnold Adoff Poetry Award Honor Book
Winner of the 2017 Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers (grades 4-6)
CCBC 2017 Best Book of the Year List
Girl Mans Up by M.E. Girard (HarperTeen, 2016)
Winner of the 2017 Lambda Award
Finalist for ALA's William C. Morris Award
A 2018 TAYSHAS List Title
To the Stars! by Carmella Van Vleet and Dr. Kathy Sullivan (Charlesbridge, 2016)
2017 Amelia Bloomer List
2019 PBS Youth List
Turn of the Tide by Rosanne Parry (Random House, 2016)
Starred review in School Library Journal
The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste (Algonquin Books for Young Readers, 2015)
We Need Diverse Books 10 Must Reads 2015
New York Public Library Top 100 Notable Title 2015
Washington Post KidsPost Summer Book Club Selection
Essence Magazine Top Pick
Junior Library Guild Selection
A Bank Street's Best Children's Book of the Year 2016
Association of Children's Librarians Distinguished Book of 2015
2018-19 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee
A 2019 TODAY show "8 Best Books to Read This Spring" Title
Eliza Bing is (Not) a Big Fat Quitter by Carmella Van Vleet (Holiday House, 2014)
2015 Christopher Award Winner
Junior Library Guild Selection
Oklahoma Library Association's 2017 Sequoyah Book Award
Pennsylvania School Libraries Association's Young Readers Choice Award
for 2016-2017
2016-2017 Arkansas Charlie May Simon Book Award
South Carolina's Children's Book Award
Choose to Read Ohio Master List 2017-2018
Pure Grit by Mary Cronk Farrell (Abrams, 2014)
Finalist for Washington State Book Award
Eureka! Children’s Book Award for Excellence in Nonfiction from the
California Reading Association (2014)
Booklist Editor’s Choice: Books for Youth (2014)
Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People (2015)
Blue Ribbon Award from The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
(2014)
Notable: Women in History for Young Readers Tampa Bay Times
Amelia Bloomer Project List (2015)
Mending Horses by M. P. Barker (Holiday House, 2014)
Booklist's Top 10 Historical Fiction for Youth 2015
2014 Top Shelf Title from VOYA Magazine
Starred Review from Booklist
Starred Review from Kirkus Reviews
2015 "Must Read," Massachusetts Center for the Book
West of the Moon by Margi Preus (Amulet/Abrams, 2014)
Minnesota Book Award for Young People's Literature
Society of Midland Authors's Award for Children's Fiction
ALA/ALSC Notable Book
2014 Parents' Choice Award Silver Honor Winner for Historical Fiction
2014 Best Children’ Books List, PW
2014 Best Children’s Books List, Kirkus
2014 Best Children’s Books List, SLJ
Five starred reviews: Booklist, SLJ, Kirkus, PW, Horn Book
Open This Little Book by Jesse Klausmeier (Chronicle, 2013)
2013 Boston Globe-Horn Book Picture Book Honor winner
Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2013)
Winner of the 2017 Audiobook Parent's Choice Award
Sid Fleischman Award for Humor
Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Finalist
Lambda Literary Award Finalist
Joan F. Kaywell Books Save Lives Award 2015 (honorable mention)
Rave review in The New York Times!
Starred Review from Booklist
Starred Review from The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2014
YALSA Teens’ Top Ten nominee, 2014
ALA’s Rainbow List
Texas Library Association’s TAYSHAS List (Top Ten Title)
CCBC (Cooperative Children’s Book Center, University of Wisconsin) Choices Lost, 2014
Best Books of the Year for Children and Young Adults, Children’s Book Committee of the Bank Street College of Education (Starred Title)
Notable Book for a Global Society Award – IRA Children’s Literature and Reading SIG
Georgia Peach Award nominee
North Carolina Young Adult Book Award nominee
Capital Choices Noteworthy Books for Teens List
Summer ’13 Kids’ Indie Next List
The Mysterious Woods of Whistle Root by Christopher Pennell
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)
Autumn 2013 Kids’ Indie Next List
ABC's launch of New Voices Choice winner
Written in Stone by Rosanne Parry (Random House, 2013)
2014 WILLA Award (Women Writing the West)
2013 Junior Library Guild Selection
2013 Mock Newbery List Andersons Bookstore
2013 Short list for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Book Award
2013 NYPL 100 best books for reading & sharing
2013 Amelia Bloomer Project list for books with significant feminist content
2014 finalist for the Oregon Book Award
2014 Best Book of the Year list from Bank Street Children's Literature Center
Shadow on the Mountain by Margi Preus (Amulet/Abrams, 2012)
Premio ITAS del Libro di Montagna 2017
ALSC Tween Recommended Reading List
Bank Street College Best Books of the Year
Notable Books for a Global Society 2013
Dorothy Canfield Fisher 2013-2014 List
Young Hoosier Award List 2013
Judy Lopez Memorial Book Award
Minnesota Book Award Finalist
Kirkus Best of 2012
Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World by Laurie Lawlor
(Holiday House, 2012)
Bank Street Children’s Book of the Year, 2012
ALA Advancement of Science Top in Summer Book
IRA Teacher’s Choice Book 2013
National Science Teachers Outstanding Science Trade Book, 2013
John Burroughs Riverby Award, 2012
Amelia Bloomer Project List, 2013
Green Earth Book Award Honor, 2013
Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic, 2011)
PEN Center USA Award for Children’s Literature
Edgar Award
Parent’s Choice Gold Medal
Judy Lopez Memorial Award
Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus (Amulet/Abrams, 2010)
Newbery Honor Medal
Asian/Pacific American Award for Children’s Literature
ALSC Notable Children’s Book
Bank Street College Best Children’s Books of the Year List, 2011
2011 Kiddo Award-Editor’s Pick
Notable Book for a Global Society, 2011
Listed as "one of the best children’s books of 2010"
by Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, Kirkus Reviews
Young Hoosier Award nominee
2013 Global Reading Challenge Book-Seattle Public Library
Glimpse by Carol Lynch Williams (Paula Wiseman/S&S, 2010)
PEN/Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
The Clockwork Three by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic, 2009)
PW Flying Leap
All the Broken Pieces by Ann E. Burg (Scholastic, 2009)
ALA Best Books for Young Adults, 2010
The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams (St Martins, 2009)
ALA’s Best Books for Young Adults 2010
ALA’s Quick Picks 2010
ALA’s Amazing Audios for Young Adults 2010
ALA's Amelia Bloomer Feminist Books List for 2010
Rodda Award, Church & Synagogue Library Association
Heart of a Shepherd by Rosanne Parry (Random House, 2009)
Association of Booksellers for Children Best Books 2009
Rodda Award, Church & Synagogue Library Association
The Horn Book Magazine’s Fanfare Best Books of 2009
Judy Lopez Memorial Honor Book Award (Women’s National Book Association)
Carolina Harmony by Marilyn Taylor McDowell (Random House, 2009)
Top Historical Fiction for Youth 2009, Booklist