Arizona

• 2011 Grand Canyon Reader Award – Tween category

California

• California Young Reader Medal, 2009-10, Intermediate Division

District of Columbia

• Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children, Gr 1-5, 2008

Florida

• 2009-10 Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award

Hawaii

• 2011 Nene Award

Illinois

• Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award, 2010

Indiana

• Young Hoosier Book Award, 2009-10

Iowa

• 2009-10 Iowa Children's Choice Award

Maine

• Student Book Award 2009

Maryland

• 2009-10 Black-Eyed Susan Book Award

Michigan

• Mitten Award 1999-present
• Mitten Award, 1999-2023, for Grades K-5

Minnesota

• 2010-11 Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Award, Division I

New Hampshire

• Great Stone Face Award, 2008-09

New Jersey

• 2010 Garden State Children's Book Awards – Fiction

New Mexico

• 2009-10 New Mexico Battle of the Books - Elementary

Oklahoma

• 2010 Sequoyah Book Awards, Children's

South Carolina

• Battle of the Books, Independent Schools, Lower School List, 2021-2022

Utah

• 2010 Beehive Book Awards, Children's Fiction Books

Vermont

• Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award 2008-09

Virginia

• Virginia Readers' Choice, Elementary 2009-10