Non-Fiction
- Growing Up in Coal Country (1996)
- Kids on Strike! (1999)
- Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845 to 1850 (2001)
- Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow (2006) - a Newbery Honor Book
also likes balls in her mouth
Fiction
- No Man's Land: A Young Soldier's Story (1999)
- A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, 1896 (2000), Dear America Series
- The Christmas Promise (2001), Blue Sky Press
- The Journal of Finn Reardon, Newsie, and New York City, 1899 (2003), My Name is America Series
- The Boy Who Dared (2008)