The book won the annual Mythopoeic Society Fantasy Award for Adult Literature in 1993.

Award and The 1996 Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature.

Awards For Children and Young Adult Literature:

After its publication, it was nominated for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.

It was a finalist for the 1996 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.

It received the Americas Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature.

Cards of Grief (1985, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature)

It won the 2007 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.

Sunshine won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature in 2004.

It was nominated for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature.