Awards
"The Mirror" (1987)
- 1988, Writers of the Future Grand Prize
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm (1994)
- 1995 Newbery Honor Book (a Newbery Medal runner-up)
- 1995, Hal Clement Award (Golden Duck Award, Young Adult)
A Girl Named Disaster (1996)
- 1996, National Book Award (U.S.) finalist, Young People's Literature
- 1997, Newbery Honor
The House of the Scorpion (2002)
- 2002, National Book Award for Young People's Literature
- 2003, Newbery Honor
- 2003, Buxtehuder Bulle (Germany)
- 2003, Printz Honor
The Land of the Silver Apples (2007)
- 2007, Emperor Norton Award ("extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason")