Award honor book, 2003 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Volume 1: The Pox Party (2006) winner, 2006 National Book Award honor book, 2007 Michael L. Printz Award for literary excellence in young adult literature (Young Adult Library Services Association) The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves (2008) honor book, 2009 Michael L. Printz Award Works Novels Thirsty (1997) Burger Wuss (1999) Feed (2002) Landscape with Invisible Hand (2017). The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge, illustrated by Eugene Yelchin (2018). The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation Volume I: The Pox Party (2006) Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves (2008) Pals in Peril series Whales on Stilts (2005) The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen (2006) Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware (2009) Agent Q, or, The Smell of Danger (2010) Zombie Mommy (2011) He Laughed with His Other Mouths, illustrated by Kurt Cyrus (2014) Norumbegan Quartet The Game of Sunken Places (2004) The Suburb Beyond the Stars (2010) The Empire of Gut and Bone (2011) The Chamber in the Sky (2012) Nonfiction Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad (2015) Graphic novels Yvain: The Knight of the Lion, with Andrea Offermann (2017) The Daughters of Ys, with Jo Rioux (2020). Short fiction "Barcarole for Paper and Bones", Shelf Life: Stories by the Book, edited by Gary Paulsen. (Simon & Schuster, 2003). "A Brief Guide to the Ghosts of Great Britain" (memoir), Open Your Eyes: Extraordinary Experiences in Faraway Places, edited by Jill Davis. (Viking, 2003). Reprinted in the September/October 2005 issue of the young adult literature magazine Cicada. "The Mud and Fever Dialogues", Sixteen: Stories About That Sweet and Bitter Birthday, edited by Megan McCafferty. (Three Rivers Press, 2004). "Watch and Wake", Gothic: Ten Original Dark Tales, edited by Deborah Noyes. (Candlewick, 2004). "My Maturity, In Flames", Guys Write for Guys Read, edited by Jon Scieszka. (Viking, 2005). "The Old, Dead Nuisance" (2011) "The Bug Out Bag: What You Need to Stay Alive" (2012) "Bug Out: What to Do When It's Time to Get Out of Dodge" (2012) Picture books Handel, Who Knew What He Liked (2001), illustrated by Kevin Hawkes — biography of George Frideric Handel Strange Mr. Satie (2003) Me, All Alone, at the End of the World (2004) The Serpent Came to