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Awards By Book

Blood On My Hands

  • Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers. American Library Association. 2011
  • Tayshas List. Texas. 2012
  • Wyoming List. Wyoming. 2011

Boot Camp

  • Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award. Illinois.
  • Book for the Teen Age. New York Public Library.
  • High School Book Award (nominee). Iowa. 2011
  • Peach Book Award for Teen Readers. Georgia.
  • Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers. American Library Association. 2010
  • Young Readers Award (nominee). Virginia. 2011

Can’t Get There From Here

  • Best Book for Teens. American Library Association.
  • Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults. American Library Association. 2010
  • Quick Pick For Reluctant Readers. American Library Association.
  • Young Adult Choice Award. Inter­na­tional Read­ing Association.

Give A Boy A Gun

  • Charlotte Award (winner). New York State.
  • Maud Hart Lovelace Award (Master List). Minnesota.
  • Popular Paperbacks For Young Adults. American Library Association.
  • Teen Book Award (winner). Rhode Island.
  • Ten Selection for Middle School/Junior High (Kansas State Reading Circle). Kansas.
  • Top Shelf Fiction for Middle Schoolers. Voice Of Youth Advocates.
  • Washington Irving Children’s Choice Book Award. New York City.
  • Young Reader’s Choice Award (Master List). Pennsylvania.

If I Grow Up

  • Gateway Readers Award (nominee). Missouri. 2010
  • Gateway Readers Award (nominee). North Carolina. 2010
  • Kentucky Bluegrass Master List (nominee). Kentucky. 2010
  • Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People. National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and the Children’s Book Council. 2010
  • Teen Reader List. Louisiana. 2012

Kill You Last

  • Edgar Award (nominee). Mystery Writers of America. 2012

The Accident

  • Books for the Teen Age. New York Public Library.
  • Edgar Allan Poe (nominee). Mystery Writers of America.
  • Pick of the Lists. American Bookseller.

Wish You Were Dead

  • Abraham Lincoln H.S. Book Award. Illinois. 2012
  • Books for the Ten Age. New York Public Library. 2010
  • Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers. American Library Association. 2011
  • Sakura Medal (nominee). International School Librarians Group (Japan).
  • Stuff for the Teen Age. New York Public Library. 2009
  • Summer Reading List. Voice Of Youth Advocates. 2010
  • Summer Reading List. Tayshas (Texas Library Association). 2010
  • Summer Reading List (nominee). Voice of Youth Advoca. 2010
  • Young Adult Category. Der Leserpreis(Germany). 2011