* Boston Globe – Horn Book Award for skjønnlitteratur for _The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle_ (1991)
* National Jewish Book Award for barnelitteratur for _Nothing But the Truth:A Documentary Novel_ (1993)
* Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for _Crispin:At the Edge of the World_ (2003)
* Sydney Taylor Book Award for _The Forgotten Verses of Edgar Allan Poe_ (2008)