Outstanding Backlist

Escape: One Day We Had to Run . . .

Starred Reviews

• Kirkus Reviews

Notable Awards

• Best Middle-Grade Book, Winner, 2021
• Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Nonfiction Book, Winner, 2021

How to Build an Insect

Starred Reviews

• School Library Journal

Notable Awards

• NCTE Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts, Winner, 2022
• Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2022

Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer

Starred Reviews

• Kirkus Reviews

Notable Awards

• Orbis Pictus Honor Book, Short-listed, 2022
• American Indian Youth Literature Awards Honor Book, Commended, 2022
• Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2022
• Septima Clark Women in Literature Award Honor Book, Commended, 2022
• Kirkus Best Children's Books, Winner, 2021

Planet Ocean: Why We All Need a Healthy Ocean

Notable Awards

• Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book, Commended, 2022
• Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2022

The Secret Life of Kitty Granger

Notable Awards

• YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, Nominated, 2022
• Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2022

The Floating Field: How a Group of Thai Boys Built Their Own Soccer Field

Starred Reviews

• The Horn Book Magazine
• Publishers Weekly

Notable Awards

• Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2022

Rissy No Kissies

Starred Reviews

• Publishers Weekly
• Kirkus Reviews

Notable Awards

• Kirkus Best Children's Books, Winner, 2021

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

Starred Reviews

• Publishers Weekly
• The Horn Book Magazine
• Booklist

Notable Awards

• Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, Winner, 2022
• Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor Book, Commended, 2022
• Randolph Caldecott Medal Honor Book, Commended, 2022
• Coretta Scott King Author Award, Winner, 2022
• ALA Notable Children's Books, Winner, 2022

Can You Whistle, Johanna?

Starred Reviews

• Kirkus Reviews

Notable Awards

• Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Fiction Book, Winner, 2021
• Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Book, Winner, 2021

Beni's War

Notable Awards

• Sydney Taylor Notable Book, Winner, 2020

The Most Beautiful Thing

Starred Reviews

• Kirkus Reviews

Notable Awards

• ALA Notable Children's Books, Winner, 2021
• Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2021
• Kirkus Best Children's Books, Winner, 2020
• NPR Best Books of the Year, Winner, 2020

Migrants

Notable Awards

• Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2021
• Kirkus Best Children's Books, Winner, 2020

Kiyo Sato: From a WWII Japanese Internment Camp to a Life of Service

Notable Awards

• Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Winner, 2021

Like Spilled Water

Notable Awards

• YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, Nominated, 2022
• In the Margins: Fiction List, Short-listed, 2022

The Great Bear Rescue: Saving the Gobi Bears

From the Series Sandra Markle's Science Discoveries

Starred Reviews

• Kirkus Reviews

Notable Awards

• AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books, Short-listed, 2022