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Awards

2011 Best Juvenile Book Western Heritage Award

lcowboy ogoOff Like The Wind! The First Ride of The Pony Express won the 2011 Best Juvenile Book Western Heritage Award from The National Cowboy Hall Of Fame & Museum, based in Oklahoma City! (Linking to the previous winners is a bit involved: click here, then enter “2011” in the year field.)

New York Times Bestseller

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Zombies! was a five-week New York Times Bestseller, climbing to #16 on the non-fiction trade paperback list.

2010-2011 MASL Readers Award Nominee

The Missouri Association of School Librarians Readers Awards represent the best current youth literature available to students of different grade levels. Every year, MASL’s Readers Award Committees work to create a preliminary list of titles that are read and voted upon by groups of Reader/Selectors to create the final list of nominees. Titles on the final list are then read and voted upon by students across Missouri to determine the recipients of the MASL Readers Awards. The Youngest Templar: Orphan of Destiny was a nominee in 2010-2011.

2010-2011 Truman Readers Award List

Sponsored by Missouri Association of School Librarians, the The Truman Readers Award encourages students in the early teen years to express their unique voice through exploring new literary genres, communicating with their peers about young adult literature, and honoring authors writing for young teens. The winner of the annual Truman Readers Award is selected by students in grades six through eight.

Bank Street College of Education Best Books for 2010 List

Off Like The Wind! The First Ride of The Pony Express was named on the Bank Street College of Education Best Books for 2010 List. In choosing books for the annual list, committee members consider literary quality and excellence of presentation as well as the potential emotional impact of the books on young readers. Other criteria include credibility of characterization and plot, authenticity of time and place, age suitability, positive treatment of ethnic and religious differences, and the absence of stereotypes.

2008 Bank Street College of Education 100 Best Books List

Daniel Boone’s Great Escape was named on the Bank Street College of Education Best Books for 2008 List. In choosing books for the annual list, committee members consider literary quality and excellence of presentation as well as the potential emotional impact of the books on young readers. Other criteria include credibility of characterization and plot, authenticity of time and place, age suitability, positive treatment of ethnic and religious differences, and the absence of stereotypes.

Spur Award Finalist

Considered one of the most prestigious awards in American literature, Western Writers of America annually honors writers for distinguished writing about the American West with the Spur Awards. Daniel Boone’s Great Escape was an award finalist. Since 1953 the Spur Awards have been considered one of the most prestigious awards in American literature.