Awards and Honours
 

The Tinderbox was an "Our Choice" book selected by the Canadian Children's Book Centre in 1983-4.

The Quarter-Pie Window was the winner of the 1986 Young Adult Canadian Book Award presented by the Saskatchewan Library Association, and of the 1986 National Chapter IODE Book Award. It was a Canadian Children's Book Centre "Our Choice" book in 1986-7.

The Sign of the Scales won the 1991 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, and was selected by the Canadian Children's Book Centre as an "Our Choice" book in 1990-1.

Fire Ship won a commendation from the Toronto Historical Board in 1993.

Rebellion won the 1996 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, and was selected by the Canadian Children's Book Centre as an "Our Choice" book in 1996-7.  It also won an Award of Merit from Heritage Toronto (formerly the Toronto Historical Board) in 1997.