Awards
Gate City Book Award Finalist
- Product: The Scarlet Stockings Spy
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2007
Great Lakes Award Shortlist Finalist: Grades 2-3
- Product: Mackinac Bridge
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2007
IPPY Bronze Award
- Product: The Last Brother
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2007
IPPY Bronze Award
- Product: Kelly of Hazel Ridge
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2007
Kids' Wings Award List by Kids' Wings Creative Educational Associates
- Product: Rudy Rides the Rails
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2007
Learning Magazine 2007 Teachers' Choice Award
- Product: W is for Wind: A Weather Alphabet
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2007
Learning Magazine Teachers' Choice Award
- Product: The Scarlet Stockings Spy
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2007
Michigan Notables Book List
- Product: Mackinac Bridge
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2007
National Best Books Finalist--Children's Picture Book: Hardcover Non-Fiction Category
- Product: D is for Drinking Gourd: An African American Alphabet
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2007
National Best Books Finalist in the Children's Picture Book: Hardcover Fiction category
- Product: Yatandou
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2007