Benjamin is known for her debut novel The Thing About Jellyfish, which was a National Book Award for Young People's Literature finalist in 2015,[1] and a New York Times Best Seller.
[3] The novel has received attention as a book that could encourage girls to consider careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields.
[4] Benjamin has expressed in interviews that the scientific aspects of the novel were born out of a failed attempt to write a non-fiction book about jellyfish for adults.
[12] Benjamin is the co-author of Tim Howard's The Keeper: The Unguarded Story of Tim Howard (2014), and Paige Rawl's Positive: A Memoir (2014), which is a coming-of-age memoir that was a Junior Library Guild selection[13] and the first-ever nonfiction selection for The Today Show book club.
[15] Benjamin has additionally authored The Cleaner Plate Club (2010) with Beth Bader, which is a guide for parents to help them feed their kids a healthy diet.