Hero
1999 An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
1998 Oklahoma Book Award
1998 New York Public Libraries Books for the Teen Age
1999 Nominee, Oklahoma Sequoyah Book List
1999-2000 Black-Eyed Susan Book Award List (Maryland)
2000 Nevada Young Readers’ Award, Young Adult
2000 Texas Library Association TAYSHAS High School Reading List
2000 South Carolina Association of School
Librarians Young Adult Book Award
2003 Alaska Battle of the Books
2004 An ALA Popular Paperback
2010-11 Alaska Battle of the Books alternate
Rough Waters
1999 An ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers
1999 Finalist Oklahoma Book Award
1999 New York Public Libraries Books for the Teen Age
2000 Nominee, Colorado Blue Spruce Award
2000 Nominee, Utah Young Adult List
2000 Nominee, South Carolina Book Award
2000 Young Adult Choice Winner by the International Reading Association
2000-01 Nominee, Children’s Literature Association of Utah Book Award
Head Above Water
2000 An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
2000 Finalist Oklahoma Book Award
2000 Finalist Colorado Book Award
2001 Finalist SD Teen Choice Award
2002 Nominee, Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award
2001-2002 Nominee, Kentucky Bluegrass Award
2001 Texas Library Association TAYSHAS High School Reading List
2003 Finalist Dolly Gray Children’s Literature Award, sponsored by
International Council for Exceptional Children/Division
on Development Disabilities
2008 YALSA Popular paperbacks
Stetson
2002 Texas Library Association TAYSHAS High School Reading List
2003 ALA Best Book for Young Adults
2002 Nominee, Pennsylvania School Librarians Association Young Adult
Top 40
2003-2004 Nominee, Colorado Blue Spruce Award
2004 Nominee, Utah Beehive Book Award
2003 Nominee, Michigan Library Ass’n Thumbs Up Award
2005 Nominee, Oklahoma Sequoyah Young Adult Book Award
2005 Nominee, Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Award
2005 Nominee, Nevada Young Reader’s Award
Shadow of a Doubt
2004 Nominee, ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers
2003 Parents' Guide to Children's Media
2004 New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age List
2003-4 Nominee, Keystone State Reading Association’s YA Book Award
2004 Honor Book the Society of School Librarians International
2005-2006 Finalist, Utah Beehive Book Award
2005 IRA Young Adult Choice List
2008 YALSA Popular Paperbacks
Out of the Blue
2010 Kansas State Reading Circle Recommended Reading List (top pick,
senior high)
2011-12 Nominee, Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award
2010 PA School Librarians Ass’n Young Adult Top Forty
2011 Finalist, Heartland Award of Excellence for Young Adult Literature