Paul Fleischman

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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1978
  • Latest Book:
    April 2019
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Full Series List in Order

The Dunderheads

The Dunderheads (Sep-2009)
The Dunderheads Behind Bars (Apr-2012)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal (Sep-2007)

Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • Jim Bridger's Alarm

  • The Half-A-Moon Inn

    Aaron has never left alone before. He is mute, and depends on his mother for everything. But tomorrow Aaron will be twelve years old, old enough to stay home by himself while his mother goes to town. Everything will be fine, as long as he stays close...

  • Path of the Pale Horse

    “... a doctor.” Lep's father's last words, uttered on the battlefield, inspired in Lep a feverish desire to master medicine and rescue the sick. Asclepius, his namesake, the demigod doctor of Greek mythology, was said to have brought the dead ...

  • Phoebe Danger Detective: The Case of the Two-Minute Cough

  • Finzel the Farsighted

  • Rear-View Mirrors

    Olivia comes to a new understanding of and discovers a growing bond with her father, from whom she has not seen or heard since her parents' divorce years before, during a summer vacation in New Hampshire...

  • Joyful Noise

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    From the Newbery Medal-winning author of Seedfolks , Paul Fleischman, Joyful Noise is a collection of irresistible poems that celebrates the insect world. Funny, sad, loud, and quiet, each of these poems resounds with a booming, boisterous, joyf...

  • I Am Phoenix: Poems for Two Voices

    At first light the finchesare flitting about the trees

    Flitteringflutteringflitpurple finchesflitFlutteringflitteringflypainted finchesfly.

    In this companion volume to Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, the winner of the 1989 Newbery ...

  • Saturnalia

    """I want you to know that my eye is upon you."" It is December 1681, and the words of Mr. Baggot, the tithingman, terrify young William. William is living a strange double life. By day he is a printer’s apprentice living in a white man’s...



  • Shadow Play

    A puzzle version of the classic fairy tale about a beautiful young girl whose love breaks an evil spell that had transformed a handsome prince into a hideous beast, is set against the backdrop of a shadow-puppet production...

  • The Birthday Tree

  • The Borning Room

    Witnessing pivotal moments of birth and death in the borning room of her family home, Georgina Lott pursues an existence shaped by familial love, a changing nation, first love, and human fears and dreams. Reprint....

  • Bull Run

    A Civil War drama told in sixteen voices, this ‘is a heartbreaking and remarkably vivid portrait of a war that remains our nation’s bloodiest conflict.… Fleischman’s artistry is nothing short of astounding.’ -- Publishers Weekly. ‘Fleisc...

  • Time Train

    Miss Pym's class is in for a comic adventure beyond their wildest dreams. They've boarded the Rocky Mountain Unlimited, a mysterious train that's winding its way into the heart of prehistoric times. Join the class-and a horrified Miss Pym-as they ...

  • A Fate Totally Worse Than Death

    An outrageously wicked parody of the typical teenage horror novel evokes screams of terror and hilarity as it chronicles the fortunes of Cliffside High when the cruel clique, the Huns, get their comeuppance from Helga, the Norwegian exchange student....

  • Dateline: Troy

  • Seedfolks

    ALA Best Book for Young Adults ∙ School Library Journal Best Book ∙ Publishers Weekly Best Book ∙ IRA/CBC Children's Choice ∙ NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts

    A Vietnamese girl plants six lima beans in a Cleveland va...

  • The Mind's Eye

    Eighty-eight-year old Elva and Courtney, an attractive sixteen-year-old with a severed spinal chord, lie in adjacent beds in a grim Bismarck, North Dakota convalescent home. Ignored by the world, the only resource they have left is their imaginati...

  • Lost! a Story in String


    A Newbery-winning author and a brilliant new artist create a story that young readers will read and perform for years to come.

    Watch and listen as a grandmother recounts a tale of a resourceful farm girl lost in a blizzard, searching for h...



  • Seek

    Assigned to write his autobiography, high school senior Rob Radkovitz decides to "listen" back on his life. As he remembers the voices of his younger self, his quirky family, and his closest friends, one stands apart - the haunting voice of his long-...

  • Sidewalk Circus

    "This delightful book will fascinate children and help them to see their world with new eyes."
    -- SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review)

    Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! Step right up and witness an astounding assemblage of tightrop...

  • Breakout

    Del's lived in Los Angeles for seventeen years, bouncing among foster homes. Smart, sharp-tongued, and a master mimic, she's fed up with her world and with being Del. So she's changing her name and leaving both herself and L.A. behind -- until her es...

  • Zap

    “High-school theater departments willing to experiment with something new might try this as an alternative to the same old reruns of Grease and Romeo and Juliet.” -- Kirkus Reviews

    Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman has considered the ad...

  • Graven Images

    Paul Fleischman, in his Newbery Honor winning book, 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.

  • Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal

    Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

    Once upon a time, in Mexico . . . in Ireland . . . in Zimbabwe . . . there lived a girl who worked all day in the rice fields . . . then spent the night by the hearth, sleeping among the cinders. Her name is Ashpet, Sootface, Cendrillon . . . Cind...

  • Weslandia

    """This fantastical picture book, like its hero, is bursting at the seams with creativity. . . . a vigorous shot in the arm to nonconformists everywhere"" — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

    Enter the witty, intriguing world o...

  • Animal Hedge

    "The versatile Fleischman presents a delightful tale of following one s dreams. . . . Joyous, peaceful, and lovely." - KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review)
    No one loves animals more than the farmer. But when a drought befalls the land, and he must sel...

  • The Dunderheads

    The Dunderheads

    Dunderheads, unite! A tyrannical teacher gets her just due in a delightfully subversive, outrageously funny tale by Newbery Medal winner Paul Fleischman.

    Miss Breakbone hates kids. Especially the time-squandering, mindwandering, doodling, dozi...

  • Whirligig

    A terrible accident ends one life, but is just the beginning for another... Brent Bishop is sent on a journey of repentance -- a cross-country trip building whirligigs. His wind toys are found by people in need: a Maine schoolgirl yearning for her...



  • The Dunderheads Behind Bars

    The Dunderheads

    Everyone's favorite underdogs are back! Can they land work on a movie set - and foil a cat burglar - with their unusual and motley skills? School is out for the summer, and the Dunderheads are finally rid of the awful Miss Breakbone. Or so they th...

  • He Walked Among Us

    The country has been swallowed by the Great Depression 2.0, complete with apple-sellers and Bruce Springsteen singing Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime on the radio. The Republican incumbent -- battling his high-living wife, a populist opponent, and the ac...

  • The Matchbox Diary

    "Pick whatever you like most. Then I’ll tell you its story." When a little girl visits her great-grandfather at his curio-filled home, she chooses an unusual object to learn about: an old cigar box. What she finds inside surprises her: a collec...

  • Eyes Wide Open

    Paul Fleischman offers teens an environmental wake-up call and a tool kit for decoding the barrage of conflicting information confronting them. We're living in an Ah-Ha moment. Take 250 years of human ingenuity. Add abundant fossil fuels. The resu...

  • First Light, First Life

    In this companion to Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal, Newbery Medal winner Paul Fleischman and Julie Paschkis turn to the universal story of creation. In the beginning there was only darkness. . . . There was fire and ice. . . . There was a single drop...

  • Fearsome Giant, Fearless Child

    Drawing from African, Asian and European folklore Fearsome Giant, Fearless Child: A Worldwide Jack and the Beanstalk Story retells the classic fairy tale in a single narrative through multiple world cultures.

    The story of a child confronting...

Award-Winning Books by Paul Fleischman

Bull Run
1994 Scott O Dell Award for Historical Fiction -- Historical Fiction
The Dunderheads
2010 PEN Literary Award -- Children/Young Adult
The Matchbox Diary
2014 Christopher Award -- Books for Young People
Seedfolks
1999 Buckeye Children's Book Award -- Grades 6-8
Weslandia
1999 Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007) -- Silver
2000 PEN Literary Award -- Children/Young Adult
2001 Grand Canyon Reader Award -- Intermediate
2002 California Young Reader Medal -- Picture Bk/Older Reader
2002 Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award -- Young Readers


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Paul Fleischman has published 35 books.

Paul Fleischman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Fearsome Giant, Fearless Child, was published in April 2019.

The first book by Paul Fleischman, Jim Bridger's Alarm, was published in November 1978.

Yes. Paul Fleischman has 1 series.
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