Hitler Youth:
Growing up in Hitler's shadow
Scholastic Nonfiction, 2005

Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine 1845-1850
Houghton Mifflin, 2001

Kids on Strike!
Houghton Mifflin, 1999

Growing up in Coal Country
Houghton Mifflin 1996

The Journal of Finn Reardon, Newsie, New York City, 1899
Scholastic 2003

A Coal Miner’s Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, 1896
Scholastic 2000

No Man’s Land: A Young Soldier’s Story
Blue Sky/Scholastic, 1999

Nobody’s Diggier than a Dog.
Illustrated by Beppe Giacobbe
Hyperion 2005

Nobody’s Nosier Than a Cat Illustrated by Beppe Giacobbe
Hyperion 2003

The Flag Maker: A Story of the Star Spangled Banner Illustrated by Clare A. Nivola
Houghton 2004

The Christmas Promise
Illustrated by David Christiana
Blue Sky/Scholastic, 2001

Silver at Night
Illustrated by David Ray
Crown Books for Children, 1994

Newbery Honor

Sibert Award

The Boy Who Dared
Scholastic 2008