Winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Award  2009 

Winner Children's Book Council of Australia Junior Judges' Project   2009

Honour  Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year   2009

YALSA (Division of the American Library Association)  Excellence in Non-fiction for Young Adults nominee 2010 for The Word Snoop (US/Canadian edition)

Winner Children's Book Council of Australia  Book of the Year  2011

Notable Book  Children's Book Council of Australia  Book of the Year 2013