A Planet is a Poem (Kids Can Press, May 2024) 3 Starred Reviews. EUREKA! 2024 Excellence in Children’s Non-Fiction Award, California Reading Association HONOR BOOK; NCTE Notable Poetry Book; Cybils Award nominee 2024; School Library Journal Best Poetry Books 2024

Focus. Click. Wind (Groundwood Books 2023) Listed by The Globe & Mail as one of the Best Books of 2023. Nominated for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young Adults​

These Are Not the Words (Groundwood Books 2022)Listed by The Globe & Mail in the holiday Gift Guide as recommended reading. Listed by the American League of Poets as a recommended novel in verse, summer 2022.

The Pact, Red Deer Press, Red Deer Press, 2016.  Listed on the 2017 USBBY Outstanding International Books List; Selected for the 2017 ILA Young Adults’ Readers Choices List; Nominated for 2017 Snow Willow Award; Listed in the Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Books For Kids & Teens, Spring 2017

September 17: A Novel, Red Deer Press, 2013. Nominated for 2014 IODE Violet Downey Award, The Silver Birch Award, The Red Cedar Award, and listed in the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s 100 Best Books for Spring, 2014

Rosie Backstage, with Tim Wynne-Jones, Kids Can Press, 1994.  Included as the only Canadian choice in the White Ravens Collection, 1995, Internationale Jugend Bibliotheck

Writing: A Fact and Fun Book, Kids Can Press, 1992. Nominated for the Children's Roundtable Award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 1992