* Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Fiction for _The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle_ (1991)
* National Jewish Book Award for Children's Literature for _Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel_ (1993)
* Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for _Crispin: At the Edge of the World_ (2003)
* Sydney Taylor Book Award for _The Forgotten Verses of Edgar Allan Poe_ (2008)