Gary D. Schmidt

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1996
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Fairytale Retellings: Rumpelstiltskin

Straw Into Gold (May-2001)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • The Sin Eater

    While living on his grandparents' farm in New Hampshire, Cole hears stories about a mysterious sin-eater which enable Cole to learn forgiveness and to connect with his ancestors. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint....

  • Anson's Way

    While serving as a British Fencible to maintain the peace in eighteenth-century Ireland, Anson finds that his sympathy for a hedge master, a teacher devoted to teaching Irish children their forbidden language and culture, places him in conflict with ...

  • Straw Into Gold

    Fairytale Retellings: Rumpelstiltskin

    What fills a hand fuller than a skein of gold? By order of the king, two boys, Tousle and Innes, must find the answer to this puzzling riddle within seven days or be killed. A former nursemaid to the queen’s child tells the boys that the banished q...

  • The Wonders of Donal O'Donnell

    Celebrate the magical power of storytelling

    "If it’s wonders you’ll be after, it won’t be far that you’ll have to go."

    The heart of Donal O’Donnell, like his farmhouse door, has been bolted shut since the day his son died. So...

  • Lizzie Bright And the Buckminster Boy

    Turner Buckminster is purely miserable. Not only is he the son of the new minister in a small Maine town, but he is shunned for playing baseball differently from the local boys. Turner feels as if everyone young and old is watching every move and eve...

  • The Great Stone Face

    As the years pass and his small village grows, Ethan watches for the fulfillment of the prophecy that someone born looking like the Great Stone Face up on the mountain will be the greatest, noblest person of his time....

  • The Wednesday Wars

    HOLLING HOODHOOD IS REALLY IN FOR IT. He's just started seventh grade with Mrs. Baker, a teacher he knows is out to get him. Why else would she make him read Shakespeare . . . outside of class? The year is 1967, and everyone has bigger things to wo...

  • First Boy

    Youre my first boy, Cooper, my first boy, grandfather says just before he dies. All alone in the world, without even a dog, the only thing that keeps Cooper going is running the dairy farm. Suddenly, black sedans are swarming all around Coopers small...

  • Mara's Stories: Glimmers in the Darkness

    A testament to the power of stories, and how they may bring hope even in times of darkness."Everyone gathers around, and from her lips to their ears the stories go, and for a little while the camp disappears, and for a little while they are all free....



  • Trouble

    From Newbery and Printz Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt comes a tender, probing story of social change set in New England. Henry Smiths father told him that if you build your house far enough away from Trouble, then Trouble will never find you. But Trou...

  • Pilgrim's Progress

    National Book Award finalist and two-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt recaptures the classic tale of one man's spiritual journey in this contemporary retelling of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, masterfully illustrated with waterc...

  • Okay for Now

    As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him. So begins a coming-of-age masterwork full of equal parts comedy and tragedy from Newbery Honor...

  • What Came from the Stars

    The peaceful civilization of Valorim is under siege ... It's about to fall to the dark Lord Mondus. In a panic, a few heroes bind all their world's beauty into one precious necklace and send it across the cosmos, hurtling past a trillion lighted star...

  • Orbiting Jupiter

    WHEN JACK MEETS his new foster brother, he already knows three things about him: Joseph almost killed a teacher. He was incarcerated at a place called Stone Mountain. He has a daughter. Her name is Jupiter. And he has never seen her. What Ja...

  • Pay Attention, Carter Jones

    Bestselling author Gary D. Schmidt tells a coming-of-age story with the light touch of The Wednesday Wars, the heart of Okay for Now, and the unique presence of a wise and witty butler. Carter Jones is astonished early one morning when he finds a ...

  • Almost Time

    A tender father-and-son story about the passage of time, the change of seasons, and the excitement of reaching a goal. Eager for maple syrup, Ethan can’t wait till sugaring time rolls around. And he can’t wait till his loose tooth falls out. B...

  • A Long Road on a Short Day

    A tender story of a father-son adventure with themes of community and kindness, in short chapters with vivid full-color illustrations, by bestseller and Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt and acclaimed artist Eugene Yelchin.In a story of perseveran...

  • Just Like That

    In this unforgettable, gently humorous novel, New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past.Meryl Lee Kowalski is sen...

  • Quertext

    Knowing that queer voices have been making themselves heard in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria decades before Stonewall, editors Gary Schmidt and Merrill Cole curated thrilling snapshots of prose fiction from more than twenty contemporary writers w...



  • One Smart Sheep

    It takes one smart sheep to escape from a piano movers’ van and find his way home in this humorous friendship story for emerging and newly independent readers by beloved, award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt and coauthor Elizabeth Stickney.Wil...

  • The Labors of Hercules Beal

    From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday Wars, in which a seventh grader has to figure out how to fulfill a seemingly impossible school assignment -- and learns about friendship, co...

  • A Little Bit Super

    In these hilarious stories by some of the top authors of middle grade fiction today, each young character is coping with a minor superpower -- while also discovering their power to change themselves and their community, find their voice, and celebrat...

  • Jupiter Rising

    When Jack's P.E. coach pairs him up with Jay Perkins for the cross-country team, neither of them is happy about it. Jack is grieving the loss of Joseph, his foster brother, and adjusting to his role as big brother to Jupiter, Joseph’s orphaned daug...

  • A Day at the Beach

    Look Both Ways meets Seedfolks in this masterful novel from two titans of kid lit that follows a diverse cast of young people whose lives intersect in surprising and hilarious ways over the course of a summer day.Here’s what’s so cool about ...

Award-Winning Books by Gary D. Schmidt

Okay for Now
2012 Jefferson Cup -- Young Adult
2014 Sequoyah Book Award -- Intermediate
The Wednesday Wars
2008 Society of Midland Authors Award -- Children's Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gary D. Schmidt has published 24 books.

The next book by Gary D. Schmidt, A Day at the Beach, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Gary D. Schmidt, The Sin Eater, was published in October 1996.

No. Gary D. Schmidt does not write books in series.
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