* 2001 Texas Bluebonnet Award
* 2001 International Reading Association Children’s Book Award
* 2001 Golden Kite Award
* 2002 Buckeye Children’s Book Award
* 2002-2003 Texas Lone Star Reading List
* 2003 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book Award
* 2004 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award
* 2004 Young Hoosier Award
* 2004-2005 Young Reader’s Choice Award, Ohio
* 2006 Iowa’s Children’s Choice Award
* 2006 Mark Twain Readers Award
* 2011 Newbery Honor Book Award
* 2012 Buckeye Children’s Book Award
* 2013 Newbery Honor Book Award
* 2014 Edgar Allan Poe Award
* 2014 Golden Duck Award
* 2015 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award
* 2015 Mark Twain Readers Award
* 2016 Newbery Honor Book Award
* 2017 Newbery Honor Book Award