 They both took positions at BYU in 1985, the same year her first novel, "The Romantic Obsessions and Humiliations of Annie Sehlmeier", received the Delacorte Press First Young Adult Novel Contest, leading to its publication.The book later became a children's choice book with both the New York Public Library and the International Reading Association.Awards received by subsequent books include Her second novel, ALA Best Book, a School Library Journal Best Book, Utah Arts Council Best Young Adult Novel, Association for Mormon Letters Best Young Adult Novel, and another New York Public Library Children's Choice Book for her second novel, "My Name is Sus5an Smith.