Awards
Children's Choices List
- Product: A Pet for Miss Wright
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2012
Children's Crown Gallery Award Honor Book
- Product: Alfred Nobel: The Man Behind the Peace Prize
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Delaware Diamonds Reading List
- Product: The Town that Fooled the British
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2012
Delaware Diamonds Reading List
- Product: A Pet for Miss Wright
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2012
Florida Reading Association's Children's Book Award List
- Product: Memoirs of a Goldfish
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2012
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