Jerry Spinelli

From the day she arrives at quiet Mica High in a burst of color and sound, the hallways hum with the murmur of “Stargirl, Stargirl.” She captures Leo Borlock’s heart with just one smile. She sparks a school-spirit revolution with just one cheer. The students of Mica High are enchanted. At first....

Just like other kids, Zinkoff rides his bike, hopes for snow days, and wants to be like his dad when he grows up....

He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham....

He wasn't born with the name Maniac Magee. He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parents died and his life changed, so did his name...

In Palmer LaRue's hometown of Waymer, turning ten is the biggest event of a boy's life. But for Palmer, his tenth birthday is not something to look forward to, but something to dread.

Stargirl has moved and left everything behind: Arizona, Mica High, enchanted desert places, and Leo....

George, aka "Suds", has just entered third grade, and he's heard the rhyme about "first grade babies/second grade cats/third grade angels/fourth grade rats"....

This powerful, quirky novel about two very complicated, damaged children has much to say about friendship, loss, and recovery....

For Jason, entering the seventh grade is like walking into a dangerous new world. Now that he’s in junior high school, he’s a small fish in a big pond stocked full of ninth-graders....

Cocky seventh-grade super-jock Crash Coogan got his nickname the day he used his first football helmet to knock his cousin Bridget flat on her backside. And he has been running over people ever since, especially Penn Webb, the dweeby, vegetarian Quaker kid who lives down the block....

This is a story about me, Lily. And me, Jake. We're twins and we're exactly alike. Not exactly....

Cammie O'Reilly lives at the Hancock County Prison - not as a prisoner, she's the warden's daughter. She spends the mornings hanging out with shoplifters and reformed arsonists in the women's excercise yard, which gives Cammie a certain cache with her school friends....

What is Will Tuppence so afraid of in this great big universe? Jerry Spinelli knows....

Worm Tarnauer feels invisible every day. He's perfectly happy being the unnoticed sidekick of his friend Eddie. So he's not expecting Dead Wednesday to feel that different. But he didn't count on being assigned Becca Finch (17, car crash)....

Welcome to Hokey Pokey. A place and a time, when childhood is at its best: games to play, bikes to ride, experiences to be had....

Megin is 12; her brother Greg is 14. Between the two, the household is filled with their teasing and fighting....

Last year, Masie Potter was voted most outstanding seventh grade female athlete. But last summer, she developed a crush on classmate Eric Delong. Now her priorities have changed....

Donald Zinkoff corre, gioca, va in bicicletta. Adora andare a scuola, sogna di diventare grande e di fare il postino come suo papà. Però...

Newbery medalist Jerry Spinelli has penned his early autobiography with all the warmth, humor, and drama of his bestselling fiction....