2019 Mom's Choice Award - Gold

2020 Storytelling World Award Honor

2020 Skipping Stones Book Award

2007 Lee & Low Books New Voices Award

2013 IRA Diverse & Impressive Children's Picture Book List

Top 10 Great Literary Finds with Young Readers in Mind for 2013
(Conversations Book Club)

2014 ALSC (Association for Library Services to Children)
Notable Children's Books Discussion List

Cybils Award Nominee for Fiction Picture Books

2014 Teachers' Choices Reading List - IRA

2014-2015 Keystone to Reading Elementary Book Award Nominee

2014 Skipping Stones Honor Book Award

2015-2016 Show Me Reader Award Final Nominee - MASL (Missouri Association of School Librarians)

2015 Storytelling World Resource Award

2015 Martin Luther King "Living the Dream" Book Award Winner

2016 Charlotte Award Nominee (New York State Reading Association)

2015-2016 Land of Enchantment Book Award (Picture Narrative Division)

2017 SAG-AFTRA Foundation chose to present on Storyline Online, read by actor, Dulé Hill

Flamingnet Top Choice Award

Selected as required reading at Marygrove College

Top Shelf Rating - "Classic"(Best Reviewed books of 2010) Urban Reviews

2015-2016 Battle of the Books List - North Pitt High School

Chosen as a "No Place for Hate" book - Pine Forge Elementary