[3] Following her graduation, she worked for four years as an elementary school teacher in Denver, Colorado and Arminto, Wyoming.
"[1] Some of her inspiration came from the events that happened in her youth while living on a farm in Kansas and on a Navajo reservation.
The Washington Post, described Annie and the Old One, the story of a Navajo “girl's love for her grandmother and her struggle to understand the impending death of the old woman," a topic she presented with "gentle restraint.
It also won a Christopher Medal (1972), and received the Brooklyn Museum-Brooklyn Public Library Art Book for Children’s citation (1973).
[9] Fourteen of Martin's books were honored as Junior Literary Guild selections.