Awards
Official State of Michigan Children's Book
- Product: The Legend of Sleeping Bear
- Achievement: Winner
Ohioana Library Association Finalist for Juvenile Literature
- Product: B is for Buckeye: An Ohio Alphabet
- Achievement: Runner-up
Rutgers University Project on Economics and Children: Top Five Books
- Product: Rudy Rides the Rails
- Achievement: Co-winner
Rutgers University Project on Economics and Children: Top Five Books
- Product: The Orange Shoes
- Achievement: Co-winner
Society of School Librarians International Honor Book Award--Language Arts Picture Books Category
- Product: A Book for Black-Eyed Susan
- Achievement: Winner
2021-2021 Texas Bluebonnet Master List
- Product: Someplace to Call Home
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2022
Grand Canyon Reader Award
- Product: Otis P. Oliver Protests
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2022
Irma S. Black Award
- Product: Bread for Words: A Frederick Douglass Story
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2021
South Carolina Book Awards
- Product: Hardscrabble
- Achievement: Long-listed
- Year: 2021
2020 Notable Social Studies Trade Books list
- Product: The Boy Who Grew a Forest: The True Story of Jadav Payeng
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2020