So it’s a finalist for:
- Oklahoma's Sequoyah Book Award
- Maryland's Black-Eyed Susan award
- New Hampshire's Isinglass Teen Read award
- Nebraska's Golden Sower award
- Missouri's Truman award
As well as:
- Finalist for Oregon Book Award (Linda Sue Park is the judge!)
- Chosen for St. Louis Book Battle
- Chosen for One Book, One Community in Olney, Illinois
- Chosen as a Cafe Book in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania and Stafford schools and the Central Rappahannock Regional Library in Virginia
Pretty good for a book my old Putnam editor turned down...
