Faculty are selected for the quality of their own writing, their literary accomplishments, and their record as teachers of this unique craft. Collectively, the faculty have earned the Newberry Honor Award, the Michael L. Printz Honor Ward, the Christopher Medal, the Parents' Choice Gold Award, the Kerlan Award, the Dorothy Canfield Award, the Scott O'Dell Award, the Lupine Award, the Willa Cather Award, the Boston Globe Horn Book Award, the Oklahoma Sequoya Award, the Julia Ward Howe/Boston Author's Club Young Readers' Award, the Massachusetts Book Award, the Minnesota Book Award, the Zora Neale Houston Award, and the Caldecott Medal. Their books have been cited in such prestigious listings as the American Library Association's Best Book of the Year, the New York Public Library's Best Book for the Teen Age, Booklist's Book of the Decade, and many more.
