Awards
Abridged due to length:
Career Excellence Award 2019, Brantford Writers’ Circle
Too Young to Escape:
Winner: Yellow Cedar Award 2020
Winner: Red Cedar Information Book Award 2020
Kids' Forest Committee Silver Birch selection 2019
2019-2020 Hackmatack Award nominee.
2019 Information Book Award nominee, Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada
2019 ILA Notable Book for a Global Society
2019 USSBY Outstanding International Book
Honorable Mention, Freeman Award 2018
CBC Best Book for Kids, 2018.
Starred Review, Quill & Quire, Nov 2018
Junior Library Guild Selection, 2018
Don’t Tell the Enemy
2019 Geoffrey Bilson nominee
2020 MYRCA Northern Lights nominee
Red Maple Fiction shortlist, 2019
Starred review, CCBC Best Books for Kids, 2018
Kids’ Forest Committee Summer Reading Selection
Making Bombs for Hitler,
Winner: Iowa Teen Award, 2018-2019, Grades 6-9
Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice WINNER, 2014
Silver Birch fiction WINNER, 2013
Starred Selection, CCBC Best Books for Kids, 2012
OLA Best Bet, top ten middle grade for 2012
Resource Links Best Book for 2012
Starred selection: ABC CLIO
Adrift At Sea:
Golden Oak Award WINNER, 2018
2017 Cybils Finalist for MG non-fiction.
Louisiana Young Readers’ Choice nominee, 2019
Selected for Pope Francis exhibit, Bologna Italy, 2018
2017 Canadian Children’s Literature Roundtables Information Book Award, Honour Book
2017 Red Cedar Information Book Award nominee
Resource Links Best Book for 2016
Starred selection: ABC CLIO
Starred selection: CCBC Best Books for Kids, 2017
New England Children’s Booksellers Advisory Council’s Hot Titles selection, 2016
School Library Journal “Collaborating on High-Interest Topics | The Refugee Experience” selection, 2018
The Booklist Reader “The Refugee Experience for Children and Young Adults” selection, 2018
Dance of the Banished
2015 Geoffrey Bilson Winner
Junior Library Guild Selection
One Step at a Time
Silver Birch non fiction winner, 2014