- 2000 Newbery Honor Award
- Honor of the Austrian Children's and Juvenile Books Award
- Chinese edition of Getting Near to Baby chosen as one of the best ten books of the year of 2000 by China Times
- An American Library Association Notable Book
- School Library Journal Best Books for 1999
- New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award Master List 2000-2001
- Preliminary list for the Master List for the Mark Twain Book Award
- A Capitol Choice Book
- Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Master List, 2001-2002 (Florida state award)
- New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
- 2001 VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers
- The Best Children's Books of the Year, Children's Book Committee at Bank St. (with outstanding rating)
- Barnes & Noble Best Books of 1999
Foreign language editions:
- (Carl Ueberreuter Verlag Ex. frnLang- German hardcover & paperback)
- Chinese (3&3 Int'l Education Instit. hardcover complex characters )......
- Chinese hardcover (New Buds Publishing House; simplified characters)
- Dutch/Flemish hardcover (Uitgeverij Clavis)
- Japanese hardcover (Hakysuisha )
- French trade paperback (Bayard Editions Jeunesse S.A.)
- Korean trade paperback (Design House )
- Turkish paperback (Bayez Adam Ltd. )
- Scholastic Book Club
- large print (Thorndike Press)
- audio - exclusive abridged & unabridged, non-dramatic (Listening Library) [ a Parents' Choice Fall 2001 Gold Award Winner
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