Bank Street Book of the Year 2021/ A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection/ Kirkus Starred Review
Polly has won numerous awards including a National Book Award, Newbery Honor, Toronto Dominion Award, International White Raven, Canadian Library Association’s Young Adult Book of the Year, short-listed for Germany’s most prestigious literature award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis , the Writer’s Trust Vicky Metcalfe Award for her body of work and many others.