Awards

 2025 Children’s Book Council: Outstanding Science Trade Book

(Of Words and Water)

 2024 Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

(Dancing in the Storm)

Nominee for Nebraska’s Golden Sower Award

(Ruby Lee & Me)

Alaska’s Battle of the Books for 3^rd & 4^th Grades

(Ruby Lee & Me)

Best of 2020 Kirkus Favorite Middle-Grade Books

(Flying Over Water)

 2024 National Science Teaching Association

(Of Words & Water)

 2022 Garden State Teen Book Award Ballot for fiction Grades 6-8

(Flying Over Water)

Nominee for the 2019 Maine Student Book Award List

(One True Way)

Nominee for Pennsylvania’s Keystone to Reading Award

(Ruby Lee & Me)

 CRYSTAL KITE WINNER for 2014

• For the Southeast Region  (Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama

(The Ballad of Jessie Pearl)

Montana Battle of the Books for 3^rd & 4^th Grades

(Ruby Lee & Me)

 Nominee for the 2018 Sakura Medal Chapter Books Award

(Ruby Lee & Me)

ALAN Review:  A New Voice in Historical Fiction

(The Ballad of Jessie Pearl)

Booklist:  The Best YA & MG Book Jackets of 2013

(The Ballad of Jessie Pearl)

Nominee for Iowa’s Children’s Choice Award

(Ruby Lee & Me)