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AWARDS

Ethical Culture School Book Award, 1978, and Children's Choice, International Reading Association and Children's Book Council, 1979, both for Sideways Stories from Wayside School; Parents' Choice Award, Parents' Choice Foundation, 1987, Young Reader's Choice Award, Pacific Northwest Library Association, and Texas Bluebonnet Award, Texas Library Association, both 1990, and Charlie May Simon Book Award, Arkansas Elementary School Council, Georgia Children's Book Award, University of Georgia College of Education, Indian Paintbrush Book Award (Wyoming), Golden Sower Award, Iowa Children's Choice Award, Land of Enchantment Children's Book Award, New Mexico Library Association, Mark Twain Award, Missouri Association of School Librarians, Milner Award, Friends of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library (Georgia), Nevada Young Reader's Award, and West Virginia Book Award, Wise Library, West Virginia University, all for There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom; Parents' Choice Award, 1989, Garden State Children's Book Award, New Jersey Library Association, 1992, and Arizona Young Reader's Chapter Book Award, 1993, all for Wayside School Is Falling Down; nominee, Golden Archer Award, 1996-97, Garden State Children's Book Award, 1998, Indiana Young Hoosier's Book Award, Massachusetts Children's Book Award, and Young Reader's Choice Award, all for Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger; National Book Award, 1998, Best Books, School Library Journal, 1998, Fanfare list, Horn Book, Books in the Middle: Outstanding Titles of 1998, Voice of Youth Advocates, "Blue Ribbons 1998" selection, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, and Newbery Medal, all 1999, all for Holes.

Source: Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Volume 35. Gale Group, 2000.
Reproduced in Biography Resource Center, one of Austin Public Library's reference databases.