CODE NAME VERITY Awards:
#1 New York Times Bestseller
UK Literacy Association Award, 2013
Edgar Award, 2013
Shortlisted for the 2013 CILIP Carnegie Award
Printz Honor Book, 2013
Boston Globe/Horn Book Award Honor Book, 2012
Golden Kite Award Honor Book, 2013
Shortlisted for the Scottish Children’s Book Award, 2013
2013 Catalyst Book Award (East Lanarkshire County Council, Scotland)
ROSE UNDER FIRE Awards:
2014 Schneider Family Book Award
2014 Josette Frank Award
2014 Boston Globe/Horn Book Award Honor Book
2014 Golden Kite Award Honor Book
Shortlisted for the 2015 UK Literacy Association Award
Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Award (Children’s)
ABA Indies Choice Award Honor Book (Young Adult), 2014
Audie Award Finalist (Teen), 2014
Media
2014 Boston Globe Horn Book Award Honor Speech
Character Interview with Lisette Romilly for Shae Has Left the Room, 12 Sept. 2014
Authority and Authenticity: Guest Post for The History Girls, 29 Dec. 2013
Bearing Witness: An Interview with Playing by the Book, 12 Sept. 2013
Interview and Review for Sarah Laurence’s blog, 5 Sept. 2013.
Interview with Audiofile Magazine, 1 Aug. 2013.
SchoolZone (Reading Zone) interview, 17 June 2013.
First Look with Sue Corbett for Publishers’ Weekly, 13 June 2013
BLACK DOVE, WHITE RAVEN Awards:
Children’s Africana Book Award, 2016
Shortlisted for the 2016 Scottish Children’s Book Award
Longlisted for the 2016 UK Literacy Association Award
Nominated for the 2016 CILIP Carnegie Award
THE PEARL THEIF Awards:
YALSA Top Ten Amazing Audio Books for Young Adults, 2018
Audiofile Best Young Adult Audio Books, 2017
Nominated for the 2018 CILIP Carnegie Award
THE ENIGMA GAME Awards:
Shortlisted for the 2021 UK Literacy Association Award
Shortlisted for the 2021 Young Quills Award from the Historical Association
Shortlisted for the 2021-2022 Red Dot Book Award from the International School Libraries Network, Singapore
Shortlisted for the 2022-2023 Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award List, Grades 6-8
Media
Parnassus Books live – The Enigma Game, in conversation with Monica Hesse, 6 November 2020.
“Facts Behind The Enigma Game: Ten Things I Researched That Amazed Me” (listicle!), 6 November 2020.
Politics & Prose live – The Enigma Game, in conversation with Sherri L. Smith, 4 November 2020
“The Thrill of the Past” – Interview with BookPage, 3 November 2020
“A Virtual Evening with Elizabeth Wein and Steve Sheinkin,” Books & Books, Miami, 2 November 2020
“The Past is a Foreign Country” in the Hachette Blog, 3 November 2020
Book Q&A with Deborah Kalb, 3 November 2020
“Herstory Tea Time” with Sherri L. Smith, Stacey Lee and Virginia Frances Schwartz, 15 October 2020
