Leroy Is Missing
(Harper & Row, 1984)
Sam and Dave are hired by Rita O’Toole, their sidekick-to-be, to find her missing brother, Leroy. In the process, they stumble upon a bookmaking operation.
Illustrations by Judy Glasser.
Bibliography
The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth
(Harper & Row, 1983)
Becky and Nemi, fast friends, find their relationship problematic when they both become involved in their high school production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Their love lives, and those of their friends, parallel those of the play.
The Fido Frame-Up
(Warne, 1983)
Sam tracks down the Black Feather Gang, jewel thieves.
Illustrations by Andrew Glass.
Tarantulas on the Brain
(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.
The First Few Friends
(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.
Will You Take Me to Town on Strawberry Day?
(Harper & Row, 1981)
A visit to a British country fair, in verse, with music.
Illustrated by Trinka Hakes Noble.
A RAVEN NAMED GRIP
(Dial/Penguin, 2021)
How a bird inspired two famous writers, Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe
Illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham.
Best Day Ever!
(Clarion, 2021)
A picture book about how a dog’s day goes from great to terrible to great again.
Illustrated by Leah Nixon.
WAYS TO SAY I LOVE YOU
(Words & Pictures/Quarto, 2020)
A picture book about how animals–and people–court.
Illustrated by Alette Straathof.
BIRD SINGING, BIRD WINGING
(Simon Spotlight/Simon&Schuster, 2020)A beginning reader about birds. Illustrated by Lucy Semple.
FOLLOW THE RECIPE
(Dial/Penguin, 2020)
Poems about imagination, celebration, and cake.
Illustrated by Marjorie Priceman.
BUG DIPPING, BUG SIPPING
(Simon Spotlight/Simon&Schuster, 2020)A beginning reader about bugs. Illustrated by Lucy Semple.
