Early life

Marriage and children

Career

Death and afterward

Children's fiction

• The Leftover Elf (1952)
• Emmett's Pig (1959)
• A Dog on Barkham Street (1960)
• Belling the Tiger (1961)
• The Bully of Barkham Street (1963)
• Siri the Conquistador (1963), Harper & Row
• The Mystery of the Woods (1964)
• The Noonday Friends (1965)
• Say Something (1968)
• The Story of a Singular Hen and Her Peculiar Children (1969)
• The Dragons of the Queen (1969)
• Juan (1970)
• Ferris Wheel (1977)
• Cider Days (1978), ISBN 978-0060258375
• Cat Walk (1983)
• The Explorer of Barkham Street (1985), ISBN 978-0060259761
• Quentin Corn (1985)
• Night of Ghosts and Hermits: Nocturnal Life on the Seashore (1985)
• Ivy Larkin (1986)
• The Cuckoo Clock (1987)
• Storm in the Night (1988)
• Bartholomew Fair (1990)
• Stealing Home (1992)
• Coco Grimes (1994)
• A Ballad of the Civil War (1997)
• Casebook of a Private (Cat’s) Eye (1999)

Young adult fiction

• To Tell Your Love (1950)
• The Sea Gulls Woke Me (1951)
• The Organdy Cupcakes (1951) - republished as Student Nurse
• In a Mirror (1953)
• Ready or Not (1953)
• Pray, Love, Remember (1954)
• The Beautiful Friend and Other Stories (1956)
• Hospital Zone (1956)
• The Day and the Way We Met (1956), ISBN 978-0060258368
• Because of Madeline (1957)
• And Love Replied (1958)
• Second Nature (1958)
• Some Merry-Go-Round Music (1959)
• Good-By My Shadow (1962)
• Who Wants Music on Monday?
• A Love, or a Season (1964) - first published as Two by Two
• And Love Replied (1966), ISBN 978-0060257866
• A Wonderful, Terrible Time (1967)
• By the Highway Home (1971), ISBN 978-0060258306
• Leap Before You Look (1972)
• Cat in the Mirror (1974)
• The Edge of Next Year (1974)
• Go and Catch a Flying Fish (1979), ISBN 978-0060258672
• What Time of Night Is It? (1981)
• Pangur Ban (1988)

• 1953 Child Study Children's Book Award, In a Mirror
• 1962 American Library Association Newbery Honor, Belling the Tiger
• Boys' Club Junior Book Award, The Bully of Barkham Street
• 1966 Newbery Honor, The Noonday Friends
• National Book Award finalist, The Edge of Next Year
• Boston Globe-Horn Book Award honor book, The Edge of Next Year
• 1982 George G. Stone Center Recognition Of Merit, entire body of work
• 1993 Kerlan Award