Awards
Friends of America Writers Award Juvenile Literature Category
- Product: Colors of Me
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Gelett Burgess Award Arts & Letters General Category for First Published Work
- Product: Colors of Me
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Gelett Burgess Award Arts & Letters General Category for Heroes
- Product: Twice as Good: The Story of William Powell and Clearview, the Only Golf Course Designed, Built, and Owned by an African American
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Illinois Monarch Book Award List (K-3)
- Product: Memoirs of a Goldfish
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2012
Indiana Science Tradebook Annual Reading List
- Product: B is for Blue Planet: An Earth Science Alphabet
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2012
McNally Robinson Book Award for Young People Nominee--Younger Category
- Product: S is for Scientists: A Discovery Alphabet
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2012
Missouri Association of School Librarian's Show Me Readers Award List
- Product: Pierre the Penguin: A True Story
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2012
Missouri Association of School Librarian's Show Me Readers Award List
- Product: Memoirs of a Goldfish
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2012
Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Assoc. Reading the West Book Awards Shortlist--Children's Category
- Product: The Quilt Walk
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2012
National Parenting Publication Award--Gold in the Book Category
- Product: Twice as Good: The Story of William Powell and Clearview, the Only Golf Course Designed, Built, and Owned by an African American
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012