Nobel Prize | Pulitzer Prize | Nobel Peace Prize | Nobel Prize in Literature | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | Nobel Prize in Chemistry | Nobel prize | Archibald Prize | Turner Prize | Nobel Prize in Physics | Man Booker Prize | Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences | USSR State Prize | Mercury Prize | Israel Prize | Humanitas Prize | Goldman Environmental Prize | Rome Prize | Pushcart Prize | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | Lenin Prize | List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction | Finlandia Prize | Georg Büchner Prize | Brage Prize | Ansari X Prize | World Food Prize | Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting | Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography | Ig Nobel Prize |
In the U.S., Inventing Elliot was nominated for the American Library Association's Best Young Adult Book Award 2004, the Nutmeg Prize and the Heartland Award, whilst New York Public Library has made it a 'book for the teen age' and critic Patty Campbell has described it as 'stunning' and 'heartrending'.