Winner of the 2024 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
2024 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Gold Medal
2024 SCBWI Golden Kite Honor Award Winner
2024 California Book Award Winner
2024 SCBWI Russell Freedman Nonfiction for A Better World Award Winner
2024 CALIBA Golden Poppy Book Award Winner
2023 Nerdy Book Club Award for Best Longform Nonfiction, Winner

Bank Street's 2024 Best Books of the Year List
Northern California Book Award 2024 Young Adult Winner
A 2024-25 Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award High School Category Nominee
A 2024-25 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee
A 2024-25 Massachusetts Teen Choice Book Award Nominee
A 2024-25 Vermont Green Mountain Book Award Nominee
A 2024-25 Florida Teens Read List Selection
A 2024-25 Missouri Association of School Librarians Dogwood Reading List Selection
A 2024 Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List Selection
A 2024 Project Lit Selection
A 2023 Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Best Book of the Year
A 2023 Book We Can’t Stop Thinking About from Mother Jones Magazine
A 2023 Booklist Editors’ Choice
A 2023 School Library Journal Best Young Adult Book of the Year
A 2023 TAYSHAS Top Ten Book from the Texas Library Association 
A 2023 Best of the Best Book from Chicago Public Library
A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2023
One of Common Sense Media's Top 5 Books of 2023 
One of Crime Reads' Best Young Adult Mysteries, Thriller and Horror Novels of 2023
One of Groton Public Library’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2023
Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
Amazon Best Book of the Month
Four Starred Reviews
Kirkus 10 Summer Page-Turners For Teens
WeAreTeachers 18 Best Books About Social Media