
Running Loose (1983)
Stotan! (1986)
The Crazy Horse Electric Game (1987)
Chinese Handcuffs (1989)
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes (1993)
Ironman (1995)
Whale Talk (2001)
The Sledding Hill (2005)
Deadline (2007)

The Deep End (1982)

King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography (2003)
"O" Foods (2005)

A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune (1989)
Athletic Shorts: 6 Short Stories (1991)
Superboy (1995)
Popeye the Sailor (1998)
Fourth and Too Long (1999)
Guns for Geeks (2001)
Under Control (2008)
Angry Management (2009)

Taking a Hit from the Censors ( [date?])
Healing Through Literature (1992)
On Your Mark (1996)
Foreword (1997)
From Chip Hilton to Bo Brewster: Some Little Truths About Heroes (1998)
The 2000 Margaret A. Edwards Award Acceptance Speech (2000)
Turning Into the Slide (2000)
The Me Factor (2001)
Dear Teachers (2001)
Detour (2001)
Good Grammar, Bad Ideas (2001)
Crime and Punishment (2002)
In Defense of Bad Language (2002)
Church and State and Spock (2002)
In Defense of Bullies (2002)
Needing a Safe Place to Be (2003)
As Old As We've Ever Been (2003)
Control Freaks (2003)
Politically Correct: A "Conservative" View (2004)
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do . . . Maybe (2004)
Who You Callin' Diverse? (2004)
There's Always a Hurricane Somewhere (2005)
What I Wouldn't Give to be That Good (2005)
Walk Along and Understand (2005)
Maybe It Should Be Called Culural Literature (2006)
Guilt, Government, and Grades: Musings from the Shore of the Main Stream (2006)
Flying Blind (2007)
Foreward (2009)
Crutcher on Censorship (2009)
The Power of the Probem Novel (2009)

The ALAN Award for Contributions to Young Adult Literature (1993)
National Intellectual Freedon Award, National Council of Teachers of English and SLATE (1998)
Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement, American Library Association (2000)
Writers Who Make a Difference Award (2004)
Celebration of Free Speech and Its Defenders Award (2005)
St. Katharine Drexel Award, Catholic Library Association (2005)