A Blissful Feast: Culinary Adventures in Italy's Piedmont, Maremma, and Le Marche, by Teresa Lust

One of the best cookbooks of 2020 by Stylecaster.com

Named one of the five best books for travel right now by the AAA

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Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II, by Andrea Warren

Eureka! Gold Award 2019

Included in the School Library Journal's Best Books of 2019

Bank Street College Flora Stieglitz Straus Award for Best Nonfiction Book for 2019

NCIBA Golden Poppy Book Award 2019

Midland Authors' Best Nonfiction Title for Children 2019 

ASJA Award for Best Nonfiction Book for Children/Young Adult 2019

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Rotten!, by Anita Sanchez 

Junior Library Guild Selection

Center for Biological Diversity: Best Environmental Books of January 2019

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ITCH!, by Anita Sanchez

William Allen White Master List 2020 (Shortlisted)

2019 Junior Library Guild Selection

One of Bank Street Center for Children's Literature's Best Books of the Year

AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books 2018 (Finalist)

2018 Chicago Public Library Best Informational Books for Older Readers 

 

The Sugar Season, by Douglas Whynott  

2014 Grand Prize Winner, Green Book Festival

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Mingus Speaks, by John Goodman
2014 Best Research in Recorded Jazz Award, Association for Recorded Sound Collections

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A Roof at the Bottom of the World, by Edmund Stump
 2011 PROSE Award Honorable Mention, Earth Science

When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home, by Paula J. Caplan
 2011 PROSE Award 
Psychology Groundbreaking Book of the Month, Indpendent Publisher Awards
Silver Medal, Independent Publisher Awards

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In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti, by Susan Tejada
 Gold Medal, Independent Publisher Awards

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Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London, by Andrea Warren
 2011 Outstanding Children's Book Award Co-Winner, American Society of Journalists & Authors
 Best Books of 2011, School Library Journal
 Best Books of 2011, Bank Street College of Education
 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, CBC and  the National Council for the Social Studies
 Favorite Non-Fiction of 2011, Richie Partington, Librarian Blogger

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Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro, by Janice Perlman
 2010 PROSE Award, Best In All Social Sciences Categories
 2010 PROSE Award, Sociology and Social Work
 

Under Seige! Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg, by Andrea Warren
 2009 Best Book, Social Studies Grades 7-12, Society of School Librarians International
 2009 Best Book, Social Studies Grades K-6, Society of School Librarians International
 2009 Outstanding Book Award, American Society of Journalists & Authors
 2011 Kansas Notable Book Teachers' Choice Award, International Reading Association

Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became An American Boy, by Andrea Warren
 2005 Best Children's Book, Society of Midland Authors
 2005 Notable Book For A Global Society, International  Reading Association
 2007 Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award Nomination
 2005 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
 2004 Editors' Choice Best of the Year, American Library Association
 2005-2006 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Master List
 Orbis Pictus Nominee for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children, National Council of Teachers of English
 2004 Book Links Lasting Connection Award
 2004 Editor's Choice, Booklist
 2004 Finalist, Disney Adventures Magazine Book Biography Award

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We Rode the Orphan Trains, by Andrea Warren
 2001 Top Ten Biography, Booklist
 2001 Nonfiction Honor Book, VOYA
 Recommended Book, Parents' Choice Foundation
 Recommended Book,  PBS Teacher Source
 Notable Trade Book for Young People, National Council of Social Studies
 

Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps, by Andrea Warren 

Robert F. Sibert Honor for Most Distinguished Informational Book for Children, American Library Association 

Gold Medal for Children's Nonfiction,  National Association of Parenting Publications 

100 Notable Books for 2001, Kansas City Star

Notable Trade Book for Young People, National Council for the Social Studies

Notable Children's Book of Jewish Content, Association of Jewish Libraries

Sydney Taylor Book Award, Association of Jewish Libraries

2001 Outstanding Children's Book, American Society of Journalists & Authors 

Nonfiction Book Award, Society of Midland Authors

Learned Research Journal Award, Brandeis University  National Women's Committee

2001 Nonfiction Honor Book, VOYA

Notable Children's Book, American Library Association

Children's Choice Literature Award

2004 William Allen White Book Award Winner

2003-2004 William Allen White Book Award Masterlist 

2005 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award Masterlist

Kansas State Reading Circle Selection

Featured at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C. 

Featured at the Harry Truman Presidential Library, Independence, MO

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Pioneer Girl: Growing Up on the Prarie, by Andrea Warren 

Best Children's Book Award, Society of Midland Authors 

Finalist, Golden Sower Award 

Notable Trade Book for Young People, National Council for the Social Studies

Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee Scholastic Book Club Selection

Children's Book Award, South Carolina Association of School Librarians

Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children, National Council of Teachers of English

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Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story, by Andrea Warren 

Top 200 Children's Books for the Millenium, Scholastic Press 

Horn Book Award for Nonfiction, Boston Globe

Notable Book, American Library Association

School Library Journal Best Book

100 Titles for Reading and Sharing, New York Public Library

Book of Distinction, The Hungry Mind Review

Best Children's Nonfiction Award, Society of  Midland Authors

Notable Trade Book for Young People, National Council for the Social Studies

Notable Trade Book  for Young People, Children's Book Council

Kansas State Reading Circle Selection

Scholastic Book Club Selection

Best Book, Society of School Librarians

International Children's Choice Literature Award

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award

Pennsylvania Young Readers Award

2000 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award Masterlist

Lamplight Award, National Christian Schools 

Young Hoosier Book Award

Jane Addams Children's Honor Book