Awards
2022-2023 Texas Bluebonnet Award
- Product: Memoirs of a Tortoise
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2022
2022-2023 Young Hoosier
- Product: Memoirs of a Tortoise
- Achievement: Long-listed
- Year: 2022
California Reading Association, Eureka! Non-Fiction Children's Book Gold Award
- Product: A is for Asian American: An Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Alphabet
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2022
Grand Canyon Reader Award
- Product: Otis P. Oliver Protests
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2022
Donna Norvell Award
- Product: Memoirs of a Tortoise
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2021
Florida Book Awards – Silver Medalist in the Younger Children’s Literature Category
- Product: Stompin' at the Savoy: How Chick Webb Became the King of Drums
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2021
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
AAAS/Subaru American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru
- Product: Winged Wonders: Solving the Monarch Migration Mystery
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2020