A Golden Kite Award Winner A Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book An Ezra Jack Keats Honor Book
The Juvenile Literature Award Winner A Crystal Kite Award Book for the Midwest Region» [T] his tale will be cherished by children, and their parents will be happy to read it to them often.»
Together, Laura and her husband, Tom McNeal, are the authors of Crooked, winner of the California Book
Award for
Juvenile Literature and an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults; Zipped, winner of the PEN Center USA Literary
Award for Children's
Literature; Crushed (called «compelling» by Publishers Weekly); and The Decoding of Lana Morris, a Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Year.