Middle Grade Book Awards

After Tupac & D Foster

• ALA Notable
• ALA BBYA
• CCBC Choice
• Capitol Choice selection
• Bank Street Best Book
• Chicago Public Library’s “Best of the Best Books of 2008”
• New York Public Library’s “Books for the Teen Age”
• Amelia Elizabeth Walden Young Adult Book Award finalist
• STATE LISTS:
  • Volunteer State Book Award Master List (TN)
  • Virginia Readers’ Choice Award Master List
  • Pennsylvania School Library Association’s Young Adult Top Forty (or so) reading list
  • New Jersey (nominee)
  • Oregon (nominee) )

Brown Girl Dreaming

• National Book Award winner
• NAACP Image Award winner (in the category of Outstanding Literary Work for Youth/Teens)
• Coretta Scott King Author Award winner
• Newbery Honor winner
• Sibert Honor winner
• Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist
• New York Times Bestseller (for over 20 weeks)
• ALA Notable
• Bank Street College of Education’s Claudia Lewis Award
• New York Times Book Review Notable Children’s Book
• Kids’ Indie Next List (Autumn 2014)
• Kirkus Best Book
• Booklist Editors’ Choice
• Publishers Weekly Best Book
• School Library Journal Best Book
• Horn Book Fanfare
• Bulletin Blue Ribbon
• NPR’s Great Reads List
• TIME magazine Top 10 YA of 2014 List
• CCBC Choice
• NPR’s Book Concierge’s 2014 Great Reads List
• NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show’s “Readers’ Reviews” on-air book club pick
• Notable Books for a Global Society (NBGS) 2015 winner
• BookPage Best Children’s Book
• Amazon Best Book (in two categories: Children’s Books and Nonfiction)
• Buzzfeed Best YA Books of 2014
• Goodreads Choice Award nominee
• Bustle.com’s Top 25 Young Adult Novels of 2014 list
• Audio edition: ALSC Notable Children’s Recording
• Audio edition: E.B. White Read-Aloud Award Winner: Middle Grade
• STATE LISTS:
  • Indiana’s Young Hoosier Book Award
  • Washington D.C.’s Capitol Choices Master List
  • Georgia’s Children’s Book Award Finalist
  • Wisconsin’s Just One More Page! Master List
  • Virginia’s Jefferson Cup Overfloweth 2015 Master List
  • California’s ACL 2014 Distinguished Books Master list
  • Maryland’s Black-Eyed Susan Book Award 2015-2016 Nominee
  • Kentucky Bluegrass Award 2016 Nominee)

Each Kindness

• Bank Street Best Book
• Charlotte Zolotow Award
• Jane Addams Children’s Book Award (from the Jane Addams Peace Association)
• Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2013
• STATE LISTS:
• The Magnolia Book Awards Master List 2015 (Mississippi)
• Illinois Monarch Award Master List 2015
• Grand Canyon Reader Award nominee list (AZ)
• Kansas (nominee)
• 2014 Kentucky Bluegrass Award nominee
• Maryland (nominee)
• Show Me Readers Award nominee (Missouri Association of School Librarians Awards)
• Nebraska Golden Sower Awards nominee
• North Carolina (nominee)
• Flicker Tail Children’s Book Award nominee (ND)
• Keystone to Reading Book Award nominee (PA)
• Buckaroo Book Award nominee (Wyoming Library Association Book Awards) )

Feathers

• IRA/CBC Children’s Choices
• NCTE Notable Children’s Book
• Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
• STATE LISTS:
  • Garden State Teen Book Award Master List (NJ)
  • Massachusetts Children’s Book Award Master List
  • Charlie May Simon Book Award Master List (AR)
  • Georgia (nominee)
  • Maine (nominee)
  • South Carolina (nominee) )

Locomotion

• ALA Notable
• ALA Best Book for Young Adults
• Kirkus Reviews Best of the Year
• Parent’s Guide Children’s Media Award
• STATE LISTS:
  • Connecticut (nominee)
  • Illinois (nominee)
  • Indiana (nominee)
  • Minnesota (nominee)
  • Nebraska (nominee)
  • Pennsylvania (nominee)
  • Texas (nominee) )

Peace, Locomotion

• SLJ Best Book
• Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best Book
• STATE LISTS:
  • New York (nominee) )