ECHO

2016 Newbery Honor

2016 Odyssey Honor

2015 Kirkus Prize

2016 Américas Award

2015 New York Historical Society Book Prize

2015 NAPPA Gold Award

2016 Audie Award

Booksource Scout Award

THE DREAMER

2011 Pen USA Award

2011 Pura Belpré Medal

2011 Américas Award

2010 Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor

Scelte di Class Prize-Italy

2011  Nautilus Book Award

Carla Cohen Free Speech Award

2010 NAPPA Gold Award

2012 Premio Letteratura Ragazzi-Italy – Il Sognatore

Deutscher Jugendliteraturapreis-Germany-Der Traumer

BECOMING NAOMI LEÓN

2006 Pura Belpré Honor Medal

2005 ALA Schneider Family Book Award

2005 Tomás Rivera Mexican American Book Award

Américas Award Commended

ESPERANZA RISING

2002 Pura Belpré Medal

2001 Jane Addams Award

2001 The Willa Cather Award

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist

2001 Southern California Judy Lopez Award

2001 Arizona Young Adult Book Award

RIDING FREEDOM

2000 California Young Reader Medal

2000 Arizona Grand Canyon Reader Award

2000 Arkansas Simon Young Reader Honor

1998 Parenting Magazine’s Reading Magic Award

WHEN MARIAN SANG, illustrated by Brian Selznick

2003 Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children

2003 Sibert Medal Honor

2004 Norman Sugarman Award for Distinguished Biography

2003 Flora Stieglitz Straus Award-Bank Street College