Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust Eve Bunting

Fiction

• The Cart that Carried Martin (2013), illustrated by Don Tate
• One Green Apple (2006), illustrated by Ted Lewin
• The Blue and the Gray (1996), illustrated by Ned Bittinger[8]
• Dandelions (1995)
• A Day's Work (1994)
• Coffin on a Case! (1992) — Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery
• Fly Away Home (1991)

A father and son are homeless and they sleep at the airport. The son watches the planes fly away and hopes one day he will be able to leave.

• Gleam and Glow

Viktor finds hope from two fishes during a harsh war in the 1990s.

• The Ghost Children (1989)
• How Many Days to America?

This book describes a family secretly leaving their country and taking a small boat to America. When they reach America, they celebrate and have Thanksgiving. This is a very powerful Thanksgiving story.

• Is Anybody There? (1988) — Edgar nominee
• Scary, Scary Halloween (1986) — with illustrations by Jan Brett
• Face at the Edge of the World (1985) — Adapted to an ABC Afterschool special titled "A Desperate Exit", starring Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
• The Memory String

A young girl remembers her family, including her mother, by a string full of buttons. Each button belongs to a certain family member and memory. She is dealing with change as her stepmother and father paint the house. This story focuses on how the young girl copes with the pain of losing her father and gaining a stepmother.

• Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust (1980), illustrated by Stephen Gammell

Woodland animals living in a clearing are taken away one group at a time by the Terrible Things from their forest home, the abductions going unquestioned. The other animals, out of fear, turn a blind eye as their neighbors are taken. A little white rabbit reflects that if perhaps the animals had stood together, the Terrible Things might have been stopped.

• Moon Stick
• Twinnies. Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter. Harcourt Brace, 1997.[9]
• Nasty, Stinky Sneakers — 1997 Sequoyah Children's Book Award [10]
• Night TreeA family travels through a forest and decorates a Christmas tree with oranges and popcorn. They sing and drink hot chocolate with the animals. The family leaves the tree for the animals to celebrate Christmas.

• One More Flight (1976, Warne popedid) — Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
• The Presence: A Ghost Story (2003)
• Little Bear’s Little Boat. Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter. Clarion Books, 2003.[11][12]
• S.O.S Titanic
• The Lambkins (2005)
• That's What Leprechauns Do (2006)
• The Sixth Grade Sleepover — 1989 Sequoyah Children's Book Award[10]
• Smoky Night (1994), illustrated by David Díaz

A young boy wakes up in the middle of the night and his family is forced to leave their house due to riots. Despite hatred in the city, two families are bonded by the events. Díaz won the annual Caldecott Medal for American children's illustration.

• So Far from the Sea (1998) — Illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet

A young Japanese American girl visits her grandfather's grave at Manzanar with her parents and younger brother.[13]

• Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz Island
• Spying on Miss Muller (1995) — Edgar nominee
• A Sudden Silence

Jesse Harmon searches for the hit-and-run serial killer who killed his brother Bry.

• A Picnic in October. Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter. Harcourt Brace, 1999.[14]

• The Summer of Riley (2001)
• The Man with the Red Bag (2007)
• Big Bear’s Big Boat. Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter. Clarion Books, 2013.[15]

Non-fiction

• The Great White Shark (1982)
• The Sea World Book of Sharks (1984)
• The Sea World Book of Whales (1987)
• Skateboards: How to Make Them, How to Ride Them (1977)