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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1987
  • Latest Book:
    May 2020
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Book List in Order: 24 titles





  • During the months that her mother is expecting, eleven-year-old Farla writes a series of letters to the unborn baby describing her feelings toward family members, friends, and her future brother or sister....





  • Jace the Ace ' is what Jason calls himself. He dreams of being a photojournalist. He carries his camera him everywhere. snapping pictures and creating exciting stories and crimes out of everyday events. Jason's habit of making up stories gets him int...






  • Voting on a guinea pig as a prospective class pet, the students of Mr. Day's class calculate how much recycling they will have to do in order to afford one. By the author of All Tutus Should Be Pink. Original....



  • Dressed up and ready to attend a birthday party, Pauline is distraught to find that her hamster has chewed up the invitation, leaving the number 5 as the only clue to where the party is taking place. Original....







  • Sometimes secrets are better written down... When Mr. Moffat gets everyone in class to start keeping journals, Lucy pours her heart out to him in entries "For YOUR Eyes Only!" Meanwhile Andy, the class troublemaker, does nothing but draw exploding f...



  • Now that there is a new baby on the way, sisters Kris and Pat must figure out how to re-arrange furniture and divide a bedroom they both must share in an easy-to-read book about shape manipulation. Original....




  • Jake's little brother, Pete, is a real pest--always copying Jake and following him around. If Jake does a somersault, so does Pete. If Jake sets up a fruit punch stand, suddenly Pete has a stand of his own. It's more than an older brother should have...



  • Beginning readers learn about money values as they follow the story of a
    young boy who discovers that the level of change in his money jar keeps
    shrinking and take part in a variety of fun-filled and educational
    games and activities that ...



  • A lively and evocative novel full of sweet, sad, and funny moments in the history of a Jewish family.

    Imagine a cozy kitchen in another time and place. A family is baking apple strudel together, and while they work, they tell each other storie...



  • Hanukkah is here at last, and Daniel Bloom couldn’t be more excited. It’s time for candle lighting and storytelling and presents. Time for chocolate gelt and dreidel games and . . . green latkes? Uh-oh. Maybe this year’s Hanukkah won’t be qui...










  • The kids who live on Orange Street have always played in the empty lot around the big Valencia orange tree. Its branches are perfect for climbing. Its leaves are cool and shady. And its oranges are the most wonderfully juicy oranges in the whole worl...



  • In this warmhearted middle-grade novel, Oona and her brother, Fred, love their cat Zook (short for Zucchini), but Zook is sick. As they conspire to break him out of the vet's office, convinced he can only get better at home with them, Oona tells Fred...



  • Pittsburgh, 1952. Franny Katzenback, a young girl recovering from polio, reads and falls in love with Charlotte's Web, the brand-new book by E. B. White. Bored and lonely and yearning for a Charlotte of her own, Franny starts up a correspondence with...



  • Penny is excited to welcome her new sibling, so throughout her mom’s pregnancy she writes letters to it (not it, YOU!). She introduces herself (Penelope, but she prefers “Penny”) and their moms (Sammy and Becky). She brags about their home city...



  • A picture book about playing pretend -- and the joy of trying out being “bad” or “good”   This charming picture book is a timeless celebration of imagination and make-believe. A brother and sister invite their friends to play good guys a...


Award-Winning Books by Joanne Rocklin

The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook
2013 Golden Kite -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joanne Rocklin has published 24 books.

Joanne Rocklin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Good Guys, Bad Guys, was published in May 2020.

The first book by Joanne Rocklin, Sonia Begonia, was published in June 1987.

No. Joanne Rocklin does not write books in series.