Winner of the 2022 Connecticut Book Award for Middle Grade Fiction (“To Tell You the Truth”)
Winner of 2021 Housatonic Award for Middle Grade (“The Newspaper Club”)
Selected for Junior Library Guild (“A Blind Guide to Normal” and “Lies I Tell Myself”)
2021-22 SSYRA Finalist (“The Newspaper Club”)
2016 International Literacy Award winner (“A Blind Guide to Stinkville”)
Vrabel’s books have been finalists for the Mark Twain Award, Great Stone Face Book Award, the South Carolina Children’s Book Award, the Louisiana Young Reader’s Choice Award, the Bluestem, and Rhode Island Middle School Book Award, among others.