(HarperCollins, 1982) and Published in paperback by Scholastic.
Lizzie Silver wants a pet tarantula more than anything in the world. Her attempts to raise money to buy one result in a series of adventures and misadventures, including a missing wedding ring and a stint as a magician’s assistant.
Illustrations by Leigh Grant.
(Harper & Row, 1981)
In 1968, Nina Ritter returns from her junior year abroad at Reading University, England to New York, where things have radically changed. Her friends, The Whole Sick Crew, are wilder now. Their ringleader, Aviva, has joined a rock band, and they are all experimenting with sex and drugs. Nina, still in love with the poetic Welsh boyfriend she had to leave behind, is both attracted and repelled by this new world. It takes some new friends – Ruth, a committed Hispanic teacher, Billy, a dancer struggling with the specter of Vietnam, and especially Floyd, a brilliant Black activist – to force Nina herself to change from a self-involved romantic to a socially responsible woman.
(Harper & Row, 1981)
A visit to a British country fair, in verse, with music.
Illustrated by Trinka Hakes Noble.
(Prentice-Hall, 1981)
Everything you ever wanted to know about the allium family.
Illustrations by Marian Parry.
(HarperCollins, 1978)
Eleven-year-old Ellie Simon is going to have heart surgery. The novel tells of her stay in the hospital, the people she meets, and how she gets through this difficult time.
Illustrations by Leigh Grant.
(Dutton, 1978)
Rachel tries different plans to get people to notice her.
Illustrated by Steven Kellogg.
(Dial/Penguin, 2022)
Poems about the Jewish holidays as celebrated by a family during the course of a year.
Illustrated by Dana Wulfekotte.
(Simon Spotlight/Simon&Schuster, 2020)
A beginning reader about one very hairy poodle. Illustrated by Abigail Tompkins.
(Dial/Penguin, 2021)
How do dogs and cats see the world? Spend a day with them! A picture book. Illustrated by Sonia Sanchez.
(Dial/Penguin, 2021)
How a bird inspired two famous writers, Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe
Illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham.
(Clarion, 2021)
A picture book about how a dog’s day goes from great to terrible to great again.
Illustrated by Leah Nixon.
(Words & Pictures/Quarto, 2020)
A picture book about how animals–and people–court.
Illustrated by Alette Straathof.
