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Saving the Planet & Stuff  ebook edition 2013; originally published 2003
 
bulletFinalist for the Connecticut Book Award. 
bulletRights for excerpt sold to Gyldendal Undervisning (Education) for an English language textbook in Norway.

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Saving the Planet & StuffKindle

A Girl, a Boy, and Three Robbers  2008
 
bulletJunior Library Guild Selection

A Girl, a Boy, and Three Robbers:    Kindle      NOOK      Kobo

A Girl, a Boy, and a Monster Cat. 2007
 
bulletSelected for the Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District Horned Toad Tale List (grades 3-5)
bulletNamed to Kansas National Education Association’s Reading Circle of recommended books for intermediate students (3rd-5th grade)
bulletJunior Library Guild Selection

A Girl, a Boy, and a Monster Cat:    Kindle      NOOK       Kobo

Happy Kid! 2006
 
bulletNamed a Best Book of the Year by the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)
bulletNominated for Georgia Children’s Book Award
bulletNominated for Oklahoma’s Sequoyah Book Award

Happy Kid!     Kindle      NOOK      Kobo

The Hero of Ticonderoga 2001
 
bulletALA Notable Book
bulletRecommended Book on the TeacherSource page of the PBS Website
bulletOne of the New York Public Library’s Children’s Books 2001 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing List         
bulletListed in the 2001 Capitol Choices, Noteworthy Books for Children
bulletOn the recommended book list for Hawaii’s 2003 Nene Award
bulletNominated for the 2003-2004 Prairie Pasque Award
Club Earth 1999
 
bulletSelected as one of the  best children’s books of the year by the Children’s Book Committee at Bank Street College
bulletItalian and German editions

 

A Year With Butch and Spike 1998
 
bulletNominated for the Maude Hart Lovelace Award for 2001-2002.
bullet Selected as one of the best children’s books of the year by the Children’s Book Committee at Bank Street College.
bulletSelected for the 2000 West Virginia Children's Book Award List.
bulletSelected to appear on the 1999-2000 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award master list. (Now the Vermont Golden Dome Book Award)
bulletNominated for the 1999-2000 Georgia Children's Literature Book Award.
bulletGerman edition
My Life Among the Aliens 1996
 
bulletSelected as a Children’s Book of the Year by the Children’s Book Committee at Bank Street College.
bulletSelected as a Choice Book of 1996 by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
bulletSelected to appear on the 1997-98 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award master list. (Now the Vermont Golden Dome Book Award)
bulletSelected to appear on the 1997-98 and 1998-99 Great Stone Face Book Award book list.
bulletIncluded in Great Books About Things Kids Love by Kathleen Odean (Ballantine Books)
bulletGerman, Italian, French and Japanese editions
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