"Boy 87" has won, been shortlisted, for British book awards including the 2019 Southwark Book Award (winner), the 2019 Waterstones Children's Book Prize for older readers (shortlisted), the 2018 Northeast Book Award (shortlisted), the 2019 Portsmouth Book Award Longer Novel (winner), the 2019 Sheffield Children’s Book Award Longer Novel (winner), the 2019 Teach Primary Key Stage 2 Book Award (shortlist), the 2019 Warwickshire Secondary Book Award (shortlist), the 2019 Sefton Super Reads Award (winner), the 2019 North Herts Schools’ Book Award in the Younger category (shortlisted), and the 2019 Redbridge Children’s Teenage Book Award (longlist).