 Ọ natara NAACP Image Award maka akwụkwọ Just the Two of Us.  Maka akwụkwọ ya, We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, ọ natara 2008 CASEY Award maka akwụkwọ baseball kacha mma, 2009 Coretta Scott King Author Award, na 2009 Robert F.  Sibert Informational Book Award.  Akwụkwọ ya, Nelson Mandela, bụ akwụkwọ Coretta Scott King Honor na 2014
 O natara NAACP Image Award maka akwụkwọ Just the Two of Us.  Maka akwukwo ya, We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, o natara 2008 CASEY Award maka akwụkwo baseball kacha mma, 2009 Coretta Scott King Author Award, na 2009 Robert F.  Sibert Informational Book Award.  Akwukwọ ya, Nelson Mandela, bụ akwukwo Coretta Scott King Honor na 2014