Accolades: “Audacity”

  • A 2015 National Jewish Book Award Finalist
  • Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book
  • Colorado Book Award Finalist
  • Nerdy Book Award
  • Mighty Girl Book
  • Top Pick, BookPage.com
  • Best Books of the Year, Bank Street College
  • Editor’s Choice, Bookbrowse.com
  • A Washington Post Best Children’s Books for April: Poetry Edition
  • A New York Public Library Best Book for Teens
  • An ALA Top 10 Best Fiction for Young Adults Pick
  • An ALSC Notable Children’s Book nominee
  • A 2016 NCTE Children’s Notable Verse Novel
  • A BCCB Blue Ribbon winner
  • Best Jewish Children’s Books of 2015, Tablet magazine
  • YALSA 2016 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults
  • 2016 Amelia Bloomer List
  • An ILA Notable Book for a Global Society
  • Editor’s Choice, Bookbrowse.com
  • Kirkus Reviews, starred review
  • School Library Journal, starred review
  • BCCB, starred review
  • School Library Connection, starred review

Accolades: “The Rest of Us Just Live Here”

  • ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults
  • Cooperative Children’s Book Center CCBC Choice
  • Michael Printz Award shortlist
  • NYPL Top Ten Best Books of the Year for Teens
  • Chicago Public Library Best Teen Books of the Year
  • Publishers Marketplace Buzz Books
  • ABC Best Books for Children
  • Bank Street Best Books List
  • Kirkus Best Book of the Year
  • VOYA Perfect Tens list of 2015
  • Booklist, starred review
  • Voice of Youth Advocates, starred review
  • Kirkus Reviews, starred review
  • Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, starred review
  • School Library Journal, starred review

Read Alikes: “Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda”

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan
Freakboy by Kristin Elizabeth Clark
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
Shine by Lauren Myracle
We Are All Made of Molecules by Susin Nielsen
When Everything Feels Like The Movies by Raziel Reid
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan