Space Station Seventh Grade (1982)
Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush? (1984)
Night of the Whale (1985)
Jason and Marceline (1986)
Dump Days (1988)
Maniac Magee (1990)
There's a Girl in My Hammerlock (1991)
Crash (1996)
The Library Card (1997)
Wringer (1997)
Stargirl (2000)
Loser (2002)
Milkweed (2003)
Love, Stargirl (2007)
The Bathwater Gang (1990)
Fourth Grade Rats (1991)
The Bathwater Gang Gets Down to Business (1992)
School Daze: Report to the Principal's Office (1992)
School Daze: Who Ran My Underwear Up the Flagpole? (1992)
School Daze: Do the Funky Pickle (1992)
School Daze: Picklemania (1993)
Tooter Pepperday (1995)
Blue Ribbon Blues (1998)
Eggs (2007)
My Daddy and Me (2003)
I Can Be Anything! (2010)
Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid (1998)
Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself (2009)
Two (1995)
Growing Up (1977)
Gus Zernial and Me (1981)
School Spirit (1989)
Wonamona (2003)
Bombs, Girls (2005)
The Great Gus Zernial and Me (2008)
A Night with the Plimptons (1981)
To a Boy, Finishing (1982)
Before the Immaculate Cuticles (1986)
And Daddy Makes Eight (1987)
What Is Sex, Anyway? (1987)
What Our Kids Will Be Telling Their Kids (1988)
You Don't Have to Walk Them and They Don't Poop on the Rug (1988)
A Story Warm and Cold (1988)
Give Me a Monkey . . . (1988)
I Love You, Spit (1989)
Before the Immaculate Cuticles (1989)
Just Like Chicken (1989)
Maniac Magee: Homer on George Street (1991)
Newbery Medal Acceptance Speech (1991)
1991 Newbery Acceptance Speech (1991)
Catching Maniac Magee (1991)
Dear Jason (1995)
Foreword: Why Read? (1995)
The Simple Simile (1996)
Jerry Spinelli Argues for School Libraries (1997)
1964-1975: Years of Turbulence (2000)
On the Least-Asked Questions (2001)
Mrs. Seeton's Whistle (2004)
Southern Utah University Author's Award (1992)
Drexel University Children's Literature Citation (1997)
Milner Award (1998)
Anne V. Zarrow Award (2000)
Honorary Doctor of Literature, Western Maryland College (2000)
Miglior Autore Award from Andersen Magazine (2001)
Honorary Doctor of Literature, Gettysburg College (2005)
