Simone LaFray and the Red Wolves of London, the second book in S.P. O’Farrell’s middle-grade mystery series about French junior spy Simone LaFray, was a three-time finalist or award-winner this season.
Winner in the 2023 Independent Press Awards’ Middle Grade category
Finalist for the Chanticleer Gertrude Warner Award for Middle Grade Fiction
Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards for Juvenile Fiction
Dr. Drew Palacio’s Shrieks and Sounds and Things Abound: The Quiet Wants of Julien J., a children’s book about a boy whose favorite superhero teaches him how to tolerate distraction and focus on his favorite things, was a Silver Winner in the Nautilus Book Awards for Children’s Illustrated / Fiction, Ages 6-9 Years.
Silver Award Winner in the Nautilus Book Awards for Children’s Illustrated / Fiction, Ages 6-9 Years
Emily Langhorne’s The Lonely Daffodil, a children’s book about a daffodil who finds friends despite being separated from its its brethren, received two accolades from the Eric Hoffer Book Awards.
Finalist for the Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award
Honorable Mention in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards
Julia Sullivan’s Bone Necklace, a story of America’s final “Indian War” told from multiple perspectives, is a finalist in the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Awards’ Best Novel and Best First Western Novel categories. Winners will be announced in June.
Finalist for Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Awards’ Best Novel and Best First Western Novel
