Nine O’Clock Lullaby
(HarperCollins, 1991)
A lyrical trip through the world’s time zones, starting and ending in Brooklyn, NY.
Illustrated by Frane Lessac.
Bibliography
Exotic Birds
(Doubleday, 1991)
Exotic birds, including eighteen diverse environments and their avian inhabitants.
Illustrated by James Needham.
Twenty Ways to Lose Your Best Friend
(Harper & Row, 1990)
Emma has been taught to “do the right thing.” So she votes for a better actor rather than her best friend to play the lead in the fourth grade class play. When her friend, Sandy, finds out, Emma’s in trouble. A Junior Library Guild selection. A Trumpet Book Club selection (paperback), 1992. Illustrations by Jeffrey Lindberg.
Charmed
(Atheneum, 1990)
Twelve-year-old Miranda and her invisible fenine friend, Bastable, who looks much like an upright cat, must join forces with several other beings from different worlds to defeat the evil Charmer.
Storm Rising
(Scholastic, 1989)
Storm Ryder, age seventeen, a talented young pianist with a difficult home life, falls in love with his employer, a mysterious twenty-eight-year-old electrician named Jocelyn Sayers, who turns out to have supernormal powers.
The Hoax On You
(Harper & Row, 1989)
Is the new foreign exchange student a thief? Or is she something – someone – else? Sam and Dave do some sleuthing to find out. Illustrations by Richard Williams.
Venom
(Darby Creek/Lerner, 2007)
A non-fiction book about venomous and poisonous animals.
Let’s Build A Clubhouse
(Clarion, 2006)
An introduction to tools for young children.
Illustrated by Timothy Bush.
Cats to the Rescue
(Holt, 2006)
True stories and legends about heroic cats around the world.
Illustrated by Jean Cassels.
What Stinks?
(Darby Creek/Lerner, 2006)
A non-fiction book about smelly plants and animals.
Make Me Over: 11 Original Stories About Transforming Ourselves
(Dutton/Penguin, 2005)
Eleven stories about makeovers, physical, psychological, spiritual, etc. edited by Marilyn and including her story “Bedhead Red, Peekaboo Pink,” as well as stories by Joyce Sweeney, Rene Saldana, Jr., Peni Griffin, Joseph Bruchac, Terry Trueman, Jess Mowry, Norma Howe, Marina Budhos, Evelyn Coleman, and Margaret Peterson Haddix.
Monday on the Mississippi
(Holt, 2005)
A lyrical trip down the Mississippi River.
Illustrated by Frane Lessac.
