1983 - Mountain, poems (Hartford, CT: Andrew Mountain Press), o.p.
1985 - Father Time and the Day Boxes. Illus. Robert Andrew Parker. Aladdin, paper (0-689-71792-X)
1986 - A Regular Rolling Noah. Illus. Stephen Gammell. Aladdin, paper (0-689-71449-1).
1988 - Borrowed Children, Bantam paper (0-553-28380-4). Winner, Golden Kite Award.
1989 - A B Cedar: An Alphabet of Trees. Illus. Tom Parker. Orchard, paper, 1996 (0-531-07080-8).
1989 - Choices: Stories for Adult New Readers. Univ. Press of Kentucky(0-8131-0900-0)
1989 - (As Red Rover, Red Rover): The Stranger I Left Behind Me, Troll p.b., 1997 (0-8167-4026- 7)
1989 - Together. Illus. Vera Rosen berry. Orchard, hardcover (0-531- 05831-X); Orchard, paper (0-531-07047-6)
1990 - Basket. Illus. Mary Szilagyi. Orchard (0-531-05886-7). Winner, Kentucky Bluegrass Award.
1990 - Come a Tide. A Reading Rainbow book. Illus. Stephen Gammell. Orchard, hardcover (0-531-05854-9); paper (0-531-07036-0).
1991 - Cecil's Story. Illus. Peter Catalanotto. Orchard (0-531-05912-X); paper (0-531-07063-8).
1991 - The Outside Inn. Illus. Vera Rosen berry. Orchard (0-531-05936-7)
1992 - Who Came Down That Road? Illus. Peter Catalanotto. Orchard, (0-531-05987-1); Orchard, paper (0-531-07073-5)
1993 - Dreamplace. Catalanotto. Orchard, (0-531-05466-7).
1993 - Catalpa, poems (Lexington, KY: Wind Publications) (0-9636545-2-7). Appalachian Writers Association Book of the Year.
1993 - A Gathering at the Forks: Fifteen Years of the Hindman Settlement School Appalachian Writers Workshop, co-edited with Jim Wayne Miller and Gurney Norman. Wise, Virginia: Vision Books. Available from Hindman Settlement School, Hindman KY 41822; (606) 785-5485.
1994 - Five Live Bongos. Illus. Jacqueline Rogers. Scholastic, (0-590-46654-2)
1994 - Here and Then, Orchard. hardcover (0-531-06866-8)
1994 - Mama Is a Miner. Catalanotto. Orchard (0-531- 06853-6).
1994 - Old Wounds, New Words: Poems from the Appalachian Poetry Project, co-edited with Bob Henry Baber and Gurney Norman. Ashland, Kentucky: Jesse Stuart Foundation (0-94508444-7).
1996 - Ada's Pal. illus. Marguerite Casparian, Orchard, Fall (0-531-09528-2).
1996 - A Day at Damp Camp, illus. Peter Catalanotto, Orchard (0-531-09504-5).
1996 - A Wordful Child, Autobiography, photos Ann Olson, Richard Owen Meet-the-Author Series (1-57274-016-7).
1997 - With a Hammer for My Heart, novel. DK Ink, fall (0-7894-2460-6)
1998 - A Sign. illus. Chris Soentpiet, Orchard, Spring.
1998 - A Traveling Cat. illus. Paul Brett Johnson, Orchard, Fall
1998 - Counting on the Woods, illus. Ann Olson, DK Ink, Spring