The Tower of Life was awarded the Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature, along with Beneath the Wide Silk Sky by Emily Inouye Huey, at UConn’s Dodd Impact Center in Storrs, CT, on November 15, 2023. (L to R) Senator Chris Dodd, Michelle Palmer, Emily Inouye Huey, Chana Stiefel, Dodd Center Chair James Waller.