Paul Fleischman

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1978
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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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: 36 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

    Seventeen-year-old Olivia hasn’t seen her father since she was eight months old. But when he summons her out of the blue, Olivia travels cross country to New Hampshire to meet him. That summer, she learns to adapt to rural life and to try to unders...

  • 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, joyful nois...

  • I Am Phoenix: Poems for Two Voices

    At first light the finchesare flitting about the treesFlitteringflutteringflitpurple finchesflitFlutteringflitteringflypainted finchesfly.In this companion volume to Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, the winner of the 1989 Newbery Medal, Paul Fleis...

  • Saturnalia

    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 house. By night, he is Weetasket of the Narraganset trib...



  • 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

    Mothers give birth in the borning room. The dying take their departure there. Outside the Lott family’s Ohio farmhouse, the Civil War rages, slavery falls, and the world marvels at the wonder of electricity. Inside, within the walls of the borning ...

  • Bull Run

    Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction * ALA Best Book for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children's BookIn this brilliant fictional tour de force, which the New York Times called "a deft, poignant novel," Newbery Medal-winning auth...

  • 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

    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. From the Newbery Award-winning author, Paul Fleischman....

  • 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 ArtsA Vietnamese girl plants six lima beans in a Cleveland vacant lot.&...

  • 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

    When they're not dusting off the old classics -- over and over -- high-school drama departments are constantly in search of new material. But what play could possibly suit the point-and-click attention spans of kids born with remote controls in t...

  • Graven Images

    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? The...

  • 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

    Enter the witty, intriguing world of Weslandia! Now that school is over, Wesley needs a summer project. He’s learned that each civilization needs a staple food crop, so he decides to sow a garden and start his own -- civilization, that is. He tur...

  • 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...

  • The Class with Wings

    In this expertly crafted story from Newbery Medal–winning author Paul Fleischman, a fourth-grade class takes the journey of a lifetime from the comfort of their own classroom as they follow the flightpath of a small (but mighty) bird—with...

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 36 books.

The next book by Paul Fleischman, The Class with Wings, will be published in October 2024.

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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