Best YA Fiction Hollywood Book Festival, Grand Prize Winner of the Paris Book Festival, and Literary Classics Gold Award for YA Fiction and for YA Historical Fiction
2014 Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist, 2014 Gold Mom’s Choice Award, 2014 Gold Moonbeam Award, 2014 Gold eLit Award, 2014 National Book Festival Featured Title for Georgia, 2014 SIBA Okra Pick , 2015 Georgia Young Adult Author of the Year Award, 2015 Green Earth Book Award Honor Award, 2015 Nomination for Tennessee's Volunteer State Book Award, 2015 The 2015 SIBA Book Award Long List , 2015-16 Georgia Children's Book Award Finalist, 2014 Academics’ Choice “Smart Book” Award Winner, and 2015 Books All Young Georgians Should Read
