Awards and Honours

Alice, I Think (Thistledown, 2000, HarperCollins, 2003), was nominated for the Amazon/Books In Canada First Novel Award and for the Canadian Association Best Young Adult Novel Award. It was named a Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association and chosen as an Amazon.com Top Ten Teen Book and as a Kirkus Editors’ Choice.

Miss Smithers (HarperCollins, 2004) was the winner of the Sheila A. Egoff Award for Children’s Literature, a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award, the White Pine Award and for the Stellar Award. It was also selected by the International Youth Library as part of their annual selection of outstanding international books for children and young adults.
Alice MacLeod, Realist at Last (HarperCollins, 2005) was nominated for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award.

The Alice books are all national bestsellers and were published in the U.S., the U.K., Australia, Indonesia and Finland. Alice, I Think was made into a 13-part television series for CTV and the Comedy Network.

Another Kind of Cowboy (HarperCollins, 2007) was nominated for the White Pine Award and was a finalist for the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award and the Stellar Book Award. It was a Kirkus Editors’ Choice book and it was shortlisted for the 2009 James Cook Book Award by the Ohio Librarian’s Association. It was an ALA Best Book and an ALA Rainbow Book.

Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance and Cookery (HarperCollins, 2008) was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writer’s of America and for the Arthur Ellis Award by the Crime Writers of Canada. It was also a Kirkus Editors’ Choice and was selected by the International Youth Library as a White Raven Selection and has been nominated for the 2010 Georgia Peach Award.