Her novels won several awards, including the John Newberry Award (1936, "Caddie Woodlawn"); the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1959, for "Caddie Woodlawn"); the Friends of American Writers Award (1955, for "The Headland"); the McKnight Family Foundation Medal (1966, for "Snow in the River"); the National League of American Pen Women Award (1966, for "Snow in the River"); the Southern California Council of Literature for Children and Young People Award (1966); and the Kerland Award (1978, for "Four Girls on a Homestead").