Memoir
"No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War" was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. It won several prizes, like a Judy Lopez Memorial Medal for Children's Literature, an Orbis Pictus Award, a Golden Kite Award, a Sydney Taylor Award Honor Book, a Booklist editor's choice, a River Bank Review Children's Books of Distinction finalist, an American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults citation, and a Gradiva Award for Best Memoir