Shojai Mentor Award
International Cat Writers’ Association 2005 – Recognizes a CWA member who has offered guidance, encouraging counsel, support, or other help that has had a direct and positive influence on another's writing and publishing success.
101 Ways to Bug Your Parents
Book of the Week, Washington Post, August 14, 2005
Recommended: In What Book? by Sue Alexander, CBC Children’s Book Week 2005
Charter Schools USA Recommended Reading List
International Board for Books for Young People Honor List 2004
Best Translated Book of the Year 2004 (Farsi/Iran)
International School Librarians Recommended Reading List 2004
Recommended: Valerie and Walter’s Best Books for Children
Recommended: Children’s Literature Lovers Book of Lists
Recommended: InventorEd., Inc.
Battle of the Books List, State of Illinois 2003
Bank Street College Best Humorous Books of the Year 2001
Pennsylvania Reader’s Choice Book Award Master List 2001
Nutmeg (Connecticut) Reader’s Choice Book Award 2001
Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Reader’s Choice Award 2000
Oklahoma Sequoyah Children’s Book Award 1999
Great Stone Face (New Hampshire) Children’s Book Award 1999
Florida Sunshine State Young Reader Award 1999
Garden State (New Jersey) Children’s Book Award Master List 1999
South Carolina Children’s Book Award Master List 1999
American Bookseller “Pick of the Lists” 1996
Recommended Books for 5th-6th Grades, Utah Education Network
Recommended Books for Ages 9-11, South Dakota State Library
Notable Books for Children, Oklahoma State Department of Education
Talking Books – National Library Service for the Blind
101 Ways to Bug Your Teacher
Young Hoosier (Indiana) Reader’s Choice Award Nominee 2008-09
IRA/CBC Children’s Choice Book 2005
Pennsylvania School Librarians’ Association “Top Forty” List 2005
NCTE Best Book of the Month, October 2004 (ALAN Review)
Chicago Public Schools 5th Grade Recommended Reading List
Bow-Wow Birthday
Doris Day Animal Foundation/WA Humane Society Recommended Book
Dog Writers’ Association of America “Award of Excellence”
Bubblemania: The Chewy History of Bubble Gum
California Collections Book
Talking Books - National Library Service for the Blind
Corey’s Fire
IRA/CBC Children’s Choice Book 1991
ALA/YALSA Recommended for the Reluctant Young Adult Reader
California Collections Book
A Recording for the Blind Book
Cowabunga! The Complete Book of Surfing
ALA/YALSA Recommended for the Reluctant Young Adult Reader Book
California Collections Book
First Steps
Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of the Year 2001
Recommended Board Book, Idaho State Library System
Recommended: Great Books for Babies & Toddlers by Kathleen O’Dean
Hector’s Hiccups
Garden State (New Jersey) Reader’s Choice Award Master List 2002
Punia and the King of Sharks
Recommended: The Big Book of Thematic Plays by Tracy West
Treasure State (Montana) Young Reader Award 2000
CBC/NCSS Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
Junior Library Guild Selection
Reading Is Fundamental “100 of the Decade’s Best Multicultural Read-Alouds” Recommended: Hawaii Department of Education
Saturday Night Jamboree
Kentucky Bluegrass Award Master List 2002
Volunteer State (Tennessee) Young Reader Award Master List 2002
Recommended Book PBS Kids “Reading Between the Lions”
Bank Street College Best Books of the Year
See You in September
A New York Public Library “Best Books for the Teen Age”
Seventh-Grade Weirdo (aka My Life as a Weirdo)
Florida Sunshine State Young Reader Award 1996
Texas Lone Star Recommended Reading Book 1994
Tales of Grandpa Cat
American Bookseller “Pick of the Lists”
Cat Writers’ Association “Award of Excellence”
Tripping Over the Lunch Lady and Other School Stories
Read Aloud America Recommended Book List 2006 
Pennsylvania School Librarians’ Association “Top Forty” List 2005
IRA/CBA Children’s Choice Book 2005
Honorable Mention, Publisher’s Weekly Best Short Story Anthology 2004
