Tiptree Award Honor Book 2006
New York Public Library Best Books for the Teen Age 2007
My Chair, Scholastic 2004
New York Public Library 100 Best Books 2004
International Reading Association Children's Choice 2004
Flashlight, Knopf 1997
Junior Library Guild selection 1998
Blow Away Soon, Putnam 1995
Child Study Children's Book Committee Book of the Year 1996
The Mud Family, Putnam/Oxford University Press, 1994
Our Choice of the Canadian Children's Book Centre 1995-96
The Red Cloak, Chronicle Books, 1989
Selected for National Museum for Women in the Arts exhibition, Brave Little Girls 1995-96
Mary Ann, Dutton Children's Books 1994
School Library Journal Best Book 1994
Child Study Children's Book Committee Book of the Year 1995
Long Night Dance, Dutton Children's Books 1989
Voices of Youth Advocates Best Fantasy 1991