Children's picture books

• Madeline and Ermadillo - 1976
• Zoom at Sea - 1983
• Zoom Away - 1985
• The Hour Of the Frog - 1985
• I'll Make You Small - 1986
• Mischief City - 1986
• Architect Of the Moon - 1988 (U.S. title: Builder of the Moon)
• Zoom Upstream - 1992
• The Last Piece of Sky - 1993
• Mouse In the Manger - 1993
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame - 1996
• Dracula - 1997
• On Tumbledown Hill - 1998
• Ned Mouse Breaks Away - 2002

Young adult fiction

• Rosie Backstage - 1994 (with Amanda Lewis)
• The Book of Changes - 1994
• The Maestro - 1995 (Australian title: The Flight of Burl Crow, UK title The Survival Game)
• Some of the Kinder Planets - 1997
• Stephen Fair - 1998
• Lord of the Fries and Other Stories - 1999
• The Boy in the Burning House - 2000 (Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel, 2002)
• A Midwinter Night's Dream - 2003 (Libretto, commissioned by the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus)
• A Thief in the House of Memory - 2004
• Rex Zero and the End of the World - 2006
• The Uninvited - 2009

Adult fiction

• Odd's End - 1980
• The Knot - 1983
• Fastyngange - 1988 (UK title: Voices)
• The Uninvited - 2009

Co-Authored

• Click - 2007

Radio plays

• "The Thinking Room" for CBC Radio's Nightfall - 1982
• "The Road Ends at the Sea" for CBC Radio's Nightfall - 1982
• "The Strange Odyssey of Lennis Freed" for CBC Radio's Nightfall - 1983

• 1980 - Seal First Novel Award for Odd's End
• 1983 - Ruth Schwartz Award of The Canadian Book Sellers Association for Zoom at Sea
• 1993 - Governor General's Award for English language children's literature for Some of the Kinder Planets
• 1995 - Governor General's Award for English language children's literature for The Maestro
• 1995 - Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book of the Year for The Maestro
• 1997 - Vicky Metcalf Award
• 1998 - Canadian Library Association, Children's Book of the Year
• 2001 - Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile Crime Book for The Boy in the Burning House
• 2002 - Edgar Award for Best Young Adult book for The Boy in the Burning House
• 2009 - Governor General's Award for English language children's literature for The Uninvited