Deborah's Awards
Awards & Recognition
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