Honours/Reviews

THE PRISONER AND THE WRITER HONOURS

• Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
• A Globe and Mail Top 10 Kids’ Book of 2022
• 9 Great Holiday Reads for Young Readers by CBC Books
  • Audio version of The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers

THE PRISONER AND THE WRITER NEWS AND REVIEWS

• The New York Times
• Historical Novel Society
• Montreal Review of Books
• The Sydney Taylor Shmooze
• Jewish Book Council
• CTV Your Morning books segment (1:15 mark)
• Publishers Weekly
• Foreword Interview
• Foreword Reviews (starred)
• The TeachingBooks Blog
• The International Educator

SECRET SCHOOLS HONOURS

• Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

SECRET SCHOOLS NEWS AND REVIEWS

• Open Book
• 8 Books That Celebrate Inspiring Women
• BookFlap: What Exactly is a Secret School? 
• Quill & Quire
• Kirkus Reviews
• Owlkids Books Creator Corner
• New and Notable Nonfiction – SLJ Day of Dialog video
• Northshire Bookstore (staff pick)
• Cannonballread
• BC Teachers Federation magazine 

I CAN’T DO WHAT? NEWS AND REVIEWS

• Kirkus Reviews
• Bit About Books
• Quill & Quire

THE OTHER SIDE HONOURS

• 2021 Forest of Reading Red Maple Finalist
• Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Books for Kids & Teens 2020
• 2021 Skipping Stones Honor Award

THE OTHER SIDE NEWS AND REVIEWS

• Kirkus Reviews (starred)
• Canadian Children’s Book News (Red Leaf Literature pick*)
• CM: Canadian Review of Materials (highly recommended)
• Seattle Book Review (4.5/5)
• Canadian Teacher Magazine
• Quill & Quire
• Kitchener Public Library
• CBC Books
• Youth Services Book Review (starred)
• Cloud Lake Literary 

WHAT IF SOLDIERS FOUGHT WITH PILLOWS? HONOURS

• 2022 Skipping Stones Honor Award
• 2022 selection – German Academy for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, books that may help encourage discussion around war and peace
• 2021 Diamond Willow finalist
• Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Books for Kids & Teens 2020
• Amnesty International Germany’s Amnesty Journal selection (German version) 

WHAT IF SOLDIERS FOUGHT WITH PILLOWS? NEWS AND REVIEWS

• Publishing Perspectives
• Kirkus Reviews
• Publishers Weekly
• Booklist
• The Globe and Mail
• Quill and Quire
• Sal’s Fiction Addiction
• School Library Journal
• Eden Mills Writers’ Festival Kids Reads
• Sharon the Librarian
• The Tiny Activist
• Ian Wood Novellum
• Kate Foster Blog
• ATUVU.CA
• Politics and Prose in Publishers Weekly 

CLUTCH HONOURS

• Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2017 – Middle Grade Historical Fiction
• 2017 Combat Des Livres NDG Reads runner-up
• Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Books for Kids & Teens Spring 2018 (starred)
• 2018 Skipping Stones Honor Award
• 2018 Forest of Reading Silver Birch Finalist
• 2018 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young Readers Finalist 
• Resource Links Magazine – The Year’s Best 2018
• 2019 MYRCA Sundogs Nominee

CLUTCH NEWS AND REVIEWS

• Kirkus Reviews (starred)
• Montreal Review of Books
• Canadian Children’s Book News (Red Leaf Literature pick*)
• Owl Connected
• Concordia Alumni Magazine
• The Book Wars
• CM Magazine
• Midwest Book Review
• Teaching Authors
• City Parent
• Sal’s Fiction Addiction
• Quill & Quire
• School Library Journal
• Always in the Middle
• Inkygirl: Advice for Young Readers, Bookshelves and Jackie Robinson
• Open Book: The In-Character Interview
• SABR Bookshelf
• Canadian School Libraries 2018 Summer Reading for Tweens and Teens
• The Canadian Children’s Book Centre Summer Reading List 2018

*Red Leaf Literature titles are chosen by Canadian Children’s Book News reviewers. These books are thought to be of the highest quality and signify titles of exceptional calibre.