Awards & Notable Book List
When the Shadbush Blooms
- Bank Street College Children's Book Committee 2008 List of Best Children's Books
- CCBC Choice 2008, Children's Cooperative Book Center Award
- 2008 Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts
- Recommended to teachers by the National Museum of the American Indian
- Recommended on National Public Radio
- Featured in Kirkus Review's BEA/ALA Big Book Guide 2007