Caterpillars
(EarlyLight, 2011)
A non-fiction book combining poetry and prose about moth and butterfly larvae.
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A global tour of the full moon–celebrations, beliefs, customs, and facts–through poems.
Illustrated by Julia Cairns
What Is Your Dog Doing?
(Atheneum, 2011)
Sitting, staying, rolling over–dogs can do those things, but also so much more! What is YOUR dog doing?
Illustrated by Kathleen Habbley.
Tallulah’s Tutu
(Clarion, 2011)
Tallulah thinks she’d be a great ballerina–if only she had a tutu. What she doesn’t realize is that she has to earn it.
Illustrated by Alexandra Boiger.
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(Knopf, 2011)
Funny and punny couplets.
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(Dutton/Penguin, 2010)
The original book of reversos based on fairy tales.
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The Case of the Fixed Election
(Harper & Row, 1989)
Dave is the victim of a crime when someone fixes the election for Student Council president.
Illustrations by Richard Williams.
Minnie’s Yom Kippur Birthday
(Harper & Row, 1989)
A little girl’s birthday falls on Yom Kippur, and it turns out to be a very different one indeed.
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Turtle in July
(Macmillan, 1989)
Animal poems, one for each month of the year.
Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.
Several Kinds of Silence
(Harper & Row, 1988)
Sixteen-year-old Franny Yeager, the “good girl” of the family, tries to hide her burgeoning love for a Japanese-American boy since her father is rabidly anti-Japanese. Complicating matters is the illness of her beloved grandmother with whom she shares a room. Published in Great Britain by Pan Macmillan.
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Three sisters, forced to spend the summer with their grandparents whom they don’t like, decide to form the Lightey Club. At each meeting, Henny, the oldest sister, recounts a new tale about Lightey the Lightning Bug and his insect pals. Henny’s stories help change a bad vacation into a magical one.
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(Harper & Row, 1987)
Sixteen-year-old Bart Hawkins, star quarterback, learns that his house is haunted when Millicent, a sixteen-year-old “spokespook” for nine other ghosts, asks his help in ridding the place of a new and obnoxious poltergeist. With her help, Bart, who has been hiding his brains and love of reading, learns to be truthful about himself to his friends and his girlfriend.
