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Ready? Set. Birthday! Illustrations by Derek Anderson Random House, 2022
Chicago Public LIbrary Best of the Best list for Fiction for Younger Readers
• 2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction • 2013 Coretta Scott King Author Honor • Best of Show, 2012 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards • Starred reviews in The Horn Book Magazine, Kirkus Reviews Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal
2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction
2013 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Best of Show, 2012 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards
Starred reviews in The Horn Book Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal
• 2010 Coretta Scott King Author Award • 2010 Simon Weisenthal “Once Upon a World” Children’s Book Award • Carter G. Woodson Honor Book • 2010 Western Writers of America Spur Finalist • A Washington Post and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year • Starred reviews in The Horn Book Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal
2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction
2013 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Best of Show, 2012 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards
Starred reviews in The Horn Book Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal
Juneteenth Co-author: Drew Nelson Illustrations by Mark Schroder Millbrook Press, 2006
• Children’s Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year
2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction
2013 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Best of Show, 2012 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards
Starred reviews in The Horn Book Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal
Almost to Freedom Illustrations by Colin Bootman Carolrhoda Books, 2003
• 2004 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
2012 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction
2013 Coretta Scott King Author Honor
Best of Show, 2012 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards
Starred reviews in The Horn Book Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal