December 2022: author banned for life from entering Russian Federation
Winterkill: Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
Winterkill: #VelshiBannedBookClub selection
Winterkill: New York Times reviewed
Winterkill: MYRCA Northern Lights nomination, 2024
Winterkill: Forest of Reading Kid Committee Red Maple summer reading list 2023
Winterkill: CCBC Best Book for Kids, 2023
Winterkill: Kobzar Book Award shortlist, 2024
Traitors Among Us, Kirkus, starred review
Traitors Among Us, Best Books of the Month, middle-grade, Sept 2021, Amazon.com
Traitors Among Us, Kirkus Best YA book list, 2021
Traitors Among Us, A Mighty Girl 2021 Book of the Year
Traitors Among Us, Geoffrey Bilson Award, shortlist, 2022.
Sky of Bombs, Sky of Stars, Poughkeepsie Public Library 2021 Big Read selection
Sky of Bombs, Sky of Stars, CCBC Best Book, 2020
Trapped in Hitler’s Web, MYRCA Northern Lights nomination, 2022
Trapped in Hitler’s Web, A Mighty Girl 2020 Book of the Year
Career Excellence Award 2019, Brantford Writers’ Circle
Too Young to Escape, Saskatchewan Diamond Willow Award nomination, 2020
Too Young to Escape, WINNER Ontario Yellow Cedar Award, 2020
Too Young to Escape, Ontario Yellow Cedar Award nomination, 2020
Too Young to Escape, WINNER BC Red Cedar information Book Award, 2019-20
Too Young to Escape, BC Red Cedar Book Awards nomination, non-fiction, 2019-20
Too Young to Escape, Forest of Reading Kids’ Silver Birch selection 2019
Too Young to Escape, 2019-2020 Hackmatack Award nominee.
Too Young to Escape, CCBC Best Books for Kids, 2019.
Too Young to Escape, 2019 Information Book Award nominee, Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada
Too Young to Escape, 2019 ILA Notable Book for a Global Society
Too Young to Escape, 2019 USSBY Outstanding International Book
Too Young to Escape, Honorable Mention, Freeman Award 2018
Too Young to Escape, CBC Best Book for Kids, 2018.
Too Young to Escape, Starred Review, Quill & Quire, Nov 2018
Too Young to Escape, CBC 13 middle grade books to watch for this fall, 2018.
Too Young to Escape, Junior Library Guild Selection, 2018
Too Young to Escape, CBC 12 books to read to commemorate Remembrance Day, 2018.
The War Below, North Carolina Young Adult book Award shortlist for 2018-2019
The War Below, CYBILS middle-grade fiction nomination, 2018-2019
Don’t Tell the Enemy, WINNER: 2020 Saskatchewan Snow Willow Award
Don’t Tell the Enemy, 2020 Saskatchewan Snow Willow Award nominee
Don’t Tell the Enemy, 2019 Bilson Award nominee
Don’t Tell the Enemy, 2020 MYRCA Northern Lights nominee
Don’t Tell the Enemy, Red Maple Fiction shortlist, 2019
Don’t Tell the Enemy, Starred review, CCBC Best Books for Kids, 2018
Don’t Tell the Enemy, Kids’ Forest Committee Summer Reading Selection
Don’t Tell the Enemy, CBC The Next Chapter Book Panel Selection
Don’t Tell the Enemy, CBC 8 MG novels to read in early 2018 Selection
Don’t Tell the Nazis, 2019 A Mighty Girl Book of the Year
Making Bombs for Hitler, US edition: Starred selection: ABC CLIO
Making Bombs for Hitler, US edition: Winner, Battle of the Books, Chesapeake PL.
Making Bombs for Hitler, US edition: YALSA Quick Pick 2018
Making Bombs for Hitler, US edition: Winner: Iowa Teen Award, 2018-2019, Grades 6-9
Making Bombs for Hitler, 2017 A Mighty Girl Book of the Year
Adrift At Sea: Golden Oak Award WINNER, 2018
Adrift At Sea: 2017 Cybils Finalist for MG non-fiction.
Adrift At Sea: Louisiana Young Readers’ Choice nominee, 2019
Adrift At Sea: Selected for Pope Francis exhibit, Bologna Italy, 2018
Adrift At Sea: Golden Oak Award shortlist, 2018
Adrift At Sea: 2017 Canadian Children’s Literature Roundtables Information Book Award, Honour Book
Adrift At Sea: 2017 Red Cedar Information Book Award nominee
Adrift At Sea: Resource Links Best Book for 2016
Adrift At Sea: Starred selection: ABC CLIO
Adrift At Sea: Starred selection: CCBC Best Books for Kids, 2017
Adrift At Sea: New England Children’s Booksellers Advisory Council’s Hot Titles selection, 2016
Adrift At Sea: School Library Journal “Collaborating on High-Interest Topics | The Refugee Experience” selection, 2018
Adrift At Sea: The Booklist Reader “The Refugee Experience for Children and Young Adults” selection, 2018
The Best Gifts: 2017 Storytelling World Resource Honor Book
Dance of the Banished: Geoffrey Bilson Award WINNER 2015
Dance of the Banished: Geoffrey Bilson Award nominee 2015
Dance of the Banished: Junior Library Guild selection April 2015
Dance of the Banished: CCBC Best Books for Kids, 2015
Dance of the Banished: The White Ravens selection 2015
Dance of the Banished: USBBY Outstanding International Book 2016
Armenian Genocide Centenary Recognition Award
Underground Soldier: Geoffrey Bilson Award nominee 2015
Underground Soldier: Kobzar Literary Award nominee 2016
Underground Soldier: Starred Selection, CCBC Best Books for Kids, 2014
Underground Soldier: Resource Links Best Book for 2014
One Step At A Time: Silver Birch non-fiction WINNER, 2014
One Step At A Time: Bank Street Best Books of the Year for Children and YA, 2014
One Step At A Time: Horn Book, 2013
One Step At A Time: Information Book Award nomination, Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada, 2013
One Step At A Time: Starred Selection, CCBC Best Books for Kids, 2013
Making Bombs for Hitler: Geoffrey Bilson Award nominee, 2013
Making Bombs for Hitler: Kobzar Literary Award shortlist, 2014
Making Bombs for Hitler: Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice WINNER, 2014
Making Bombs for Hitler: Silver Birch fiction WINNER, 2013
Making Bombs for Hitler: Starred Selection, CCBC Best Books for Kids, 2012
Making Bombs for Hitler: OLA Best Bet, top ten middle grade for 2012
Making Bombs for Hitler: Resource Links Best Book for 2012
Last Airlift: A Bankstreet Best Children’s Book of the Year, 2013
Last Airlift: BC Red Cedar Information book WINNER for 2012-13
Last Airlift: a “CCBC Choice 2013” by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center
Last Airlift: Red Maple non-fiction HONOUR BOOK, 2013
Last Airlift: Resource Links Best Book for 2012
Last Airlift: CCBC Best Books for Kids, 2012
Last Airlift: CYBILS finalist, 2012
Last Airlift: Hamilton Book Award nomination, 2012
Last Airlift: Horn Book, 2012
Last Airlift: OLA Best Bet, top ten non-fiction list in 2011
Last Airlift:Preliminary list for the Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada 2012 Information Book Award
Stolen Child: Starred selection, CCBC Best Books for Kids, 2011
Stolen Child: 2012 Saskatchewan Diamond Willow nomination
Stolen Child: 2011 Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice HONOUR BOOK
Stolen Child: WINNER of the 2011 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award for the Americas
Stolen Child: Canadian Library Association 2011 Children’s Book of the Year nomination
Stolen Child: Resource Links Best Book, 2010
Stolen Child: OLA Best Bet, top ten juvenile fiction list in 2010
Stolen Child: Golden Oak nomination, 2011
Stolen Child: Recommended List, IODE Violet Downey Book Award 2011
Stolen Girl, Junior Library Guild Selection, 2019
CANSCAIP silver pin for volunteerism, 2010
Calliope Award for mentorship and excellence in writing, Humber School for Writers, 2010
Named Canadian Ukrainian Woman of Distinction, World Congress of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations, 2010.
Marsha has been included in the HERSTORY 2010 Calendar, which profiles and celebrates a selection of outstanding Canadian women each year
Call Me Aram: Golden Oak nomination, 2010
Call Me Aram: Silver Birch Express nomination, 2010
Daughter of War: USBBY Outstanding International Book, 2009
Daughter of War: White Pine nominee, 2009
Daughter of War: YALSA BBYA shortlist, 2009
Daughter of War: Christian High School Book Club selection, 2009
Daughter of War: Resource Links, Best Book 2008
Daughter of War: OLA Best Bets, honourable mention
Awarded the Order of Princess Olha, from President Victor Yushchenko, Ukraine, for her works on the Holodomor (Ukrainian Famine), in particular Enough.
Prisoners in the Promised Land: OLA Best Bets, honourable mention
Prisoners in the Promised Land: Resource Links, Best Book 2007
Aram’s Choice: Golden Oak nominee, 2008
Aram’s Choice: CLA Children’s Book of the Year, shortlist 2007
Aram’s Choice: Resource Links, Best Book 2006
Aram’s Choice: Silver Birch Express nominee, 2007
Named Canadian Ukrainian Woman of Distinction, World Congress of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations, 2006.
Nobody’s Child: nominated for:
BC Stellar Award
Ontario Red Maple Award
Alberta Rocky Mountain Book Award
Named a Resource Links Best Novel 2004
Hope’s War: nominated for:
Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award
Saskatchewan Snow Willow Award
Alberta Rocky Mountain Book Award
Enough: a Resource Links Best Picture Book, 2001
Silver Threads: OLA Best Bets 1996,
shortlisted for the Amelia Frances/Howard Gibbon Award for illustration
The Best Gifts: La Leche League International selected book
Marsha consistently receives CCBC’s Our Choice designation for her books
Marsha is an avid Netgalley reviewer
