Although Sanchez's novels are widely accepted in thousands of school and public libraries in America, they have faced a handful of challenges and efforts to ban them.

[citation needed] Sanchez's novel So Hard to Say (2004), about a group of 13-year-olds, won the Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult literature.

The God Box (2007), focuses on the conflict and friendship between two Christian teenage boys, one openly gay and the other struggling to accept his sexuality.

[citation needed] Although Sanchez's novels are widely accepted in thousands of school and public libraries in the U.S. and Canada, they have faced a handful of challenges and efforts to ban them.

One of the most recent challenges occurred in 2006, when the Webster, New York Central School District removed Rainbow Boys from the summer reading list.

After numerous protests from students, parents, librarians, and community members, the book was placed on the 2007 summer reading list.

[3] Sanchez's novel The Greatest Superpower (2021) tells the story of twin thirteen-year-old boys whose beloved dad comes out as transgender.