Paul Fleischman

Grasshoppers, waterstriders, and fireflies light up the pages of this rib-tickling book of poetry for two voices. Written as spirited duets, the poems ring with the love songs of book lice, the serenades of moths, and a choir of cicadas. Each one is a treat, filled with busy insect life. In...

What's really going on with the environment - in our own backyards and the wider world....

Mothers give birth in the borning room. The dying take their departure there. Within the walls of the borning room, Georgina Lott will experience her life’s greatest turnings....

William is living a strange double life. By day he is a printer’s apprentice living in a white man’s house. By night, he is Weetasket of the Narraganset tribe....

Seventeen-year-old Olivia hasn’t seen her father since she was eight months old....

Welcome to Cliffside High, the school of your nightmares. It’s run by the Huns, a ruthless clique of rich students - and, as poor Charity Chase discovers, messing with them can be murder....

Thirteen lives. One garden. Set in Cleveland, Newbery Award-winning author Paul Fleischman's poignant book is a large lesson in connectedness and community...

Assigned to write an autobiography, high-school senior Robert Radkovitz instead creates a sound portrait of his life as he remembers it. Looking back, he hears his mother's singing, his grandmother's mysteries, Mexican soap operas, Poe, poetry, and, most cherished, the voice of his absent father...

This collection of short poems from Newbery Award-winning author Paul Fleischman delightfully celebrates the essence of birds....

Bull Run was the site of the first battle of the Civil War. This book creates an intimate tapestry...

Paul Fleischman is a master of sound, incorporating a soaring, energetic musicality into his writing...

Seventeen-year-old Del is in a hurry to leave Los Angeles. But on the day of her escape, she's stopped short - by a day-long traffic jam. Eight years later, it's opening night of her one woman show about a day spent in gridlock. Could the show reveal that a day wasted in traffic is anything but?...

Paul Fleischman spins three engrossing stories about the unexpected ways an artist's creations reveal truths - tales whose intriguing plots and many moods will entertain readers and inspire future writers. Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images in Newbery...

When a sudden blizzard strands his mother in a distant town, Aaron finds himself alone for the first time in his life....

Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman reflects on his childhood with his award-winning father, Sid Fleischman, and details his own path to becoming a writer in this memorable book that is part memoir, part travelogue, and part reflection on craft and creativity. No Map, Great Trip is an excellent...