Like Mother, Like Daughter
Houghton Mifflin, 1985
ages 9 to 12, out of print

Leslie, a teenaged girl, doesn't want to be like her mother when she grows up. Her mother is always helping out stray cats and foster kids and exchange students. As the story unfolds, Leslie realizes how much like her mother she is.

Rain of Fire
Clarion Press, 1983
ages 9 to 12, out of print

A story about war, about World War II, and about war in a neighborhood. And a story, too, about lies, the need to tell them in a search for truth. Twelve-year-old Steve's search for understanding leads him and his friends on some chilling adventures ... and into an explosive climax.

Teachers' Choices 1984, NCTE
Booklist Reviewers' Choice
Jane Addams Peace Association, 1984 Children's Book Award

Tangled Butterfly
Clarion, 1980
ages 9 to 12, out of print

Seventeen-year-old Michelle, responding to an inner voice she thinks of as her grandmother, interrupts her brother's wedding. She says she knows "just cause" why the two should not be married. The bride, she says, "is going to eat him." When her mother hides her away on an island in Lake Superior rather than face her obvious disturbance, Michelle's delusions grow, and the story weaves in and out of her disturbed mind, leading to a terrifying—and redemptive—climax.

Foster Child
Clarion Press, 1977
ages 9 to 12, ISBN 978-0-8164-3190-8, out of print

"You'll like the Becks, Renny," Miss Kistner, the social worker, said. "They've been keeping foster children for ten years, and they're lovely people."

Lovely people or not, Renny knew she belonged with her great-grandmother who had cared for her all of her twelve years. Gram was in a hospital now—how sick Renny didn't know—but Renny was sure they'd be back together soon. She was as sure of that as she was that the father she had never known would come up the Mississippi one day to claim her.

Foster Child is an involving story which probes the nature of self-delusion and the challenge of accepting an adult world that demands real solutions to real problems.

Shelter from the Wind
Clarion Press, 1976
ages 9 to 12, ISBN 978-0-8164-3160-1, out of print

Stacy is angry. Barbara, her stepmother, has taken over the place Stacy has had with her father ever since her mother left. And to make it worse, Barbara is going to have a baby.

One hot June morning Stacy runs away, not sure where she is going or what she is looking for—her mother, maybe? She heads across the Oklahoma panhandle where she has always lived, without supplies, without a plan. After a scary night alone on the prairie, she is discovered by a pair of white German shepherd dogs. They lead her to their mistress, Old Ella, an independent woman who is living in the sandstone homesteader's cabin her husband built for her in 1929.