Cover and inside illustrations by Brian Selznick
Published, 1996, Simon and Schuster.
ISBN 0689818769 (pb); 0689806698 (hc)

When Nick learns some interesting information about how words are created, suddenly he's got the inspiration for his best plan ever...the frindle. Who says a pen has to be called a pen? Why not call it a frindle?

Cover and inside illustrations: pb, by Brian Selznick; hc, by Sal Murdocca
Published, 1998, Simon and Schuster.
ISBN 0689828683 (pb); 0786227079 (hc)

Fifth-grader Cara Landry has not had a smooth school experience since her parents divorced, and now she has the worst teacher in school. (Mr. Larson hands out worksheets each morning and then sits back to read the paper.) Cara is a contained, bright, creative loner whose goal is to be a journalist. When she publishes her own newspaper, The Landry News, and editorializes on the absence of teaching in her classroom, her days of anonymity are over.

Cover illustration by Brian Selznick
Published, 2000, Simon and Schuster.
ISBN 068983585X (pb); 0689818181 (hc)

When Jack Rankin gets busted for defacing a school desk with a huge wad of disgusting, watermelon bubble gum, the principal sentences him to three weeks of after-school gum cleanup for the chief custodian. The problem is, Jack's anger at the chief custodian was the reason for his gum project in the first place. The chief custodian happens to be Jack's dad.  But doing time in the school basement after hours reveals some pretty surprising things: about the school, about Jack's father, and about Jack himself.

Cover and inside illustrations by Brian Selznick
Published, 2001, Simon and Schuster.
ISBN 0689851863 (pb); 0689825943 (hc)

Twelve-year-old Natalie Nelson has written a powerful school story. It's a short novel called "The Cheater," and her best friend Zoe is certain it should be published. All Natalie has to do is give the manuscript to her mom, an editor at a big publishing house. However Natalie doesn't want any favors from her mom. Still, Zoe won't drop the idea.

Cover illustration, hc, by Dan Gonzalez ; inside illustrations by McDavid Henderson
Published, 2002, Simon and Schuster.
ISBN 0689860102 (pb); 0689825951 (hc)

When Phil sees another kid wearing his brother's jacket, he assumes the jacket was stolen. It turns out he was wrong, and Phil has to ask himself the question: Would he have made the same assumption if the boy wearing the jacket hadn't been African American? And that question leads to others that reveal some unsettling truths about Phil's neighborhood, his family, and even himself.

Cover illustration by Rafal Olbinski
Published, 2002, Philomel Books.
ISBN 0142400769 (pb); 0399236260 (hc)

When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it.

"A readable, thought-provoking tour de force, alive with stimulating ideas, hard choices, and young people discovering bright possibilities ahead."

- Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Cover illustration by Brian Selznick
Published, 2002, Simon and Schuster.
ISBN 0689858027 (pb); 068982596X (hc)

Mark didn't ask to move to New Hampshire. Or to go to a hick school like Hardy Elementary. And he certainly didn't request Mr. Maxwell as his teacher. Now the whole fifth grade is headed out for a week of camping -- Hardy's famous Week in the Woods. At first it sounds dumb, but then Mark decides it might be okay to learn something new. But things go all wrong for Mark. This Week in the Woods is not what anyone planned. Especially not Mr. Maxwell.

Cover illustration by Brian Selznick
Published, 2004, Simon and Schuster.
ISBN 0689845154 (hc)

Nora Rowley is a genius. The thing is, nobody but Nora knows that. Being so smart, Nora noticed early on, makes you stand out, and standing out was not something she wanted. Instead, Nora always tried to be exactly average. But now Nora has a new plan, and when she comes home with a bad report card, her parents and the school launch a massive effort to find out what's wrong. But that is exactly what Nora wants. All the attention is the perfect chance to prove how arbitrary grades are and that they don't matter nearly as much as everyone at Philbrook Elementary thinks.

Cover illustration by Brian Selznick
Published, 2004, Simon and Schuster.
ISBN 0689866836 (hc)

It all started when Hart Evans zinged a rubber band that hit Mr. Meinert, the chorus director. Actually, it started before that, when Mr. Meinert learned he was out of a job because the town budget couldn't afford music and art teachers. Mr. Meinert got so mad at Hart that he told the sixth graders he'd had it -- they could produce the big holiday concert on their own. Or not. It was all up to them.  What happens when a teacher steps aside and lets the kids run the show? Not what Mr. Meinert would have predicted. And not what Hart Evans would have guessed, not at all.

Cover and illustrations by Brian Selznick
Published, 2005, Simon and Schuster.
ISBN 0689866836 (hc)

Greg Kenton has always had a natural talent for making money -- despite the annoying rivalry of his neighbor Maura Shaw. Then, just before sixth grade, Greg makes a discovery: Almost every kid at school has an extra quarter or two to spend almost every day.

Multiply a few quarters by a few hundred kids, and for Greg, school suddenly looks like a giant piggy bank. All he needs is the right hammer to crack it open. Candy and gum? Little toys? Sure, kids would love to buy stuff like that at school. But would teachers and the principal permit it? Not likely.

But how about comic books? Comic books might work. Especially the chunky little ones that Greg writes and illustrates himself. Because everybody knows that school always encourages reading and writing and creativity and individual initiative, right?

Cover illustration by Rafal Olbinski
Published, 2006, Philomel Books.
ISBN 039924350x

Gwen's grandfather has disappeared from their home in New York City, but he's left her a phone message telling her not to worry - and to let no one know he's gone. The timing couldn't be worse. Gwen has violin auditions soon at Manhattan's top music schools. More stress is not what she needs. Then she meets Robert, also in town for auditions, and her new freedom actually seems to have some benefits. After all, she's seventeen, suddenly on her own, and there's no place on earth quite like New York.

Cover illustration by Brian Selznick
Inside Illustrations by Chris Blair
Published, 2006, Simon and Schuster.
ISBN 9780689866869

Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out here on the Great Plains in western Nebraska, everyone understands that if you lose the school, you lose the town.

But the mystery that has Ted's full attention at the moment is about that face, the face he sees in the upper window of the Andersons' house as he rides past on his paper route. The Andersons moved away two years ago, and their old farmhouse is empty, boarded up tight. At least it's supposed to be.

Cover illustration by Brian Selznick
Inside illustrations by Mark Elliott
Published, 2007, Simon and Schuster.
ISBN 9781416909835

The fifth-grade girls and the fifth-grade boys at Laketon Elementary don't get along very well. But the real problem is that these kids are loud and disorderly. That's why the principal uses her red plastic bullhorn. A lot.

Then one day Dave Packer, a certified loudmouth, bumps into an idea - a big one that makes him try to keep quiet for a whole day. But what does Dave hear during lunch? A girl, Lynsey Burgess, jabbering away. So Dave breaks his silence and lobs an insult. Those words lead to other words about who's the biggest loudmouth, and those words spark a contest: Which team can say the fewest words during two whole days? And it's the boys against the girls.