In 2014, she was awarded the Queensland Literary Awards Griffith University children's Book Award and the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Notable Award for "Refuge", which was also shortlisted for the NSW Premier's History Award in two categories – Children's and Community Relations. Her book "The Road to Gundagai", was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's History Awards, and short-listed for the 2016 Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. Her novels "Hitler's Daughter" and "To the Moon and Back" have been awarded the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award in 2000 and 2005, and "Pennies for Hitler" won the 2013 New South Wales Premier's Young People History Award. "Hitler's Daughter" also won the UK Wow! Award, a Semi Grant Prix Japan Award and is listed as a blue ribbon book in the USA.