- Something Upstairs (1988)
- The Fighting Ground (1984)
- Who Stole the Wizard of Oz? (1990)
- The Second Mrs. Gioconda (1984)
- The Man Who Was Poe (2009)
- The History of Mr. Polly (1998)
- Something Blue (2009)
- Smoke (1990)
- The Barn (2007)
- Nothing but the Truth (1991)
- Benjamin Franklin (2002)
- The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (1990)
- The Secret School (2005)
- Crispin: The Cross of Lead (2002)
- The End of Mr. Y (2020)
- The Secret of the Fortune Wookie (2008)
- Poppy (2019)
- Midnight Magic (1992)
- Zeke Pippins (2023)
- The Rescue of the Circus Lion (2005)
- The Gift of Nothing (2023)
Short fiction collections:
- Mixed-Up Files of Basil E. Frankweiler (1967)
- The Kite Fighters (1996)
- The View from Saturday (1976)
Non-fiction
- Finding Providence: The Story of Six Years at War. A Novel for Readers of Almost All Ages (2012)