Gloria Whelan
Author · 52 books
Gloria Whelan is the best-selling author of many novels for young readers, including Homeless Bird, winner of the National Book Award; Fruitlands: Louisa May Alcott Made Perfect; Angel on the Square and its companion, The Impossible Journey; Once on This Island, winner of the Great Lakes Book Award; Farewell to the Island; and Return to the Island. She lives with her husband, Joseph, in the woods of northern Michigan.
Series
Books
The Indian School
1996
Miracle of Saint Nicholas
1997
The Boy Who Wanted to Cook
2011
First Girl
2007
The Hedge School
2015
Fruitlands
2002
That Wild Berries Should Grow
1959
Burying the Sun
2004
The Disappeared
2008
See What I See
2010
Living Together
2013
The Turning
2006
Jam and Jelly by Holly and Nellie
2002
Yatandou
2007
The Listeners
2009
Once on This Island
1995
The Impossible Journey
2003
The Locked Garden
2009
Silver (A Stepping Stone Book
1988
Next Spring an Oriole
1987
Farewell to the Island
1998
K is for Kabuki
A Japan Alphabet
2009
Summer of the Tree Army
A Civilian Conservation Corps Story
2021
Return to the Island
2000
Chu Ju's House
2004
Goodbye, Vietnam
1992
Smudge and the Book of Mistakes
A Christmas Story
2012
Megan's Year
An Irish Traveler's Story
2011
Small Acts of Amazing Courage
2011
Shadow of the Wolf
1997
Welcome to Starvation Lake
2000
Yuki and the One Thousand Carriers
2008
Miranda's Last Stand
1999
The Wanigan
A Life on the River
2002
After the Train
2009
Homeless Bird
2000
A Time to Keep Silent
1979
Queen Victoria's Bathing Machine
2014
Hannah
1991
Half-Minute Horrors
2009
Parade of Shadows
2007
Waiting for the Owl's Call
2009
All My Noble Dreams and Then What Happens
2013
Listening for Lions
2005
Night of the Full Moon
1993
In Andal's House
2013
What World Is This? and Other Stories
2014
A Week of Raccoons
1988
Angel on the Square
2001
Forgive the River, Forgive the Sky
1999
Summer of the War
2006
Mackinac Bridge
The Story of the Five Mile Poem
2006
