Eric Hoffer Award First Runner Up, Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award Finalist, Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Short List, Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Finalist, Gelett Burgess Children's Book Awards, and Moonbeam Children's Book Award
Nominated for National Book Award, Nominated for National Jewish Book Council Award for a Debut Novel, Nominated for Pushcart Prize, Nominated for Virginia Commonwealth Prize for Literature, Pending: Indiefab/LIterature, Pending: PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, Pending: Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, and Prizes Pending: IPPY Independent Publisher Book Award