- Smarties Book Prize Gold Award
1997
-British Book Awards Children's Book
of the Year 1998
-FCBG Children's Book Awards ganador
de ganadores 1998
- Young Telegraph Paperback of the
Year Award 1998
- Birmingham Cable Children's Book
Award
- Sheffield Children's Book Award
- The Booksellers Association/The
Bookseller Author of the Year 1998
- American Booksellers Book Award
1999
- Children´s Book Prize 1999 del
"Jury of Young Readers" Vienna
- Kinderbockwinkelprijs 1999
- Premio Centro per la Letteratura
Infantile 1998
- Anne Spencer Libergh Prize in
Children's Literature 1997-1998
- Prix Sorcière 1999
- Prix Tam-Tam "Je
bouquine" 1999
- School Library Journal Best Book
of the Year
- American Library Association
Notable Book and Best Book for Young Adults 1998
- Publishers Weekly Best Book of the
Year
- New York Public Library Best Book
of the Year
-Parenting Magazine Book of the Year
Award 1998
-Smithsonian Notables Book for
Children
- Borders Books Choice for 1999
- Lectura recomendada por Editor's
Choice 1998
- Candidato para la Carmegie Medal
(mention) 1998
-Guardian Fiction Prize 1998
-Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 1999
