Deborah's Awards

Awards & Recognition

How I Became a Spy

• Florida Sunshine State, 3-5 List, 2020-21
• Finalist, Oregon Book Award

Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen

• Finalist, Oregon Book Award

Carter Reads the Newspapwer

• Finalist, Oregon Book Award

A Bandit's Tale

• NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction, Recommended Book 

Follow the Moon Home

• Winner, Green Earth Book Award
• Finalist, Cook Prize for STEM books, Bank St College of Education
• Texas Bluebonnet List, 2017-18

DIVE! 

• Oregon Spirit Award Honor
• NCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended Book 

Steamboat School

• Jane Addams Children's Book Award
• ALA Notable 
• Finalist, Oregon Book Award

Courage & Defiance

• Orbis Pictus Recommended Book
• Oregon Book Award

 The Great Trouble, A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel

• A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
• An NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
• A Capitol Choices Noteworthy Book for Children and Teens
• A Junior Library Guild Selection
• Oregon Spirit Award, Oregon Council of Teachers of English
• Oregon Book Award Finalist
• State award lists in 17 states 

Titanic: Voices from the Disaster

• Robert F. Sibert Honor
• YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction finalist
• ALA Notable
• Oregon Spirt Award Finalist
• Junior Library Guild Selection

Up Before Daybreak: People and Cotton in America

• ALA Notable
• Carter G. Woodson Honor
• Oregon Book Award Finalist

Shutting out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880-1923

• NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor
• ALA Notable

Sky Boys, How They Built the Empire State Building

• ALA Notable
• Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor
• Oregon Book Aard Finalist

Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek

• ALA Notable
• Comstock Book Award

Apples to Oregon

• Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Text
• Time of Wonder Award
• Oregon Book Award Finalist

• Oregon Book Award Finalist
• Junior Library Guild Selection

Knit Your Bit

• Oregon Spirt Award
• NCSS Notal Social Studies Book
• Oregon Book Award Finalist
• Junior Library Guild Selection

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

• IRA Award

Keep On!

• Oregon Book Award Winner
• NCSS Trade Book for Young People

A Band of Angels

• ALA Notable
• SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Text