Children's novels

• The Strange Night Writing of Jessamine Colter, Atheneum (1988), ISBN 0-02-726451-3
• Weasel, Atheneum (1990), ISBN 0-02-726457-2 (1993 Sequoyah Book Award winner)
• Devil’s Bridge, Gale Group (1992), ISBN 0-02-726465-3
• The Light on Hogback Hill Atheneum (1993), ISBN 0-02-726453-X
• Lostman’s River, Atheneum (1994), ISBN 0-02-726466-1
• The Ghost of Fossil Glen, Farrar Straus (1998), ISBN 0-374-31787-9
• Nowhere to Call Home Farrar Straus (1999), ISBN 0-374-35552-5
• Death at Devil’s Bridge Farrar Straus (2000), ISBN 0-374-31723-2
• The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs, Farrar Straus (2001)
• The Ghost of Cutler Creek, Farrar Straus (2004), ISBN 0-374-38058-9
• Under the Same Sky, Farrar Straus (2005), ISBN 978-0-374-48065-3
• Missing Manatee, Farrar Straus (2005), ISBN 0-374-31257-5 (nominated for a 2006 Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America)
• Bringing Ezra Back, Farrar Straus (2006) (sequel to Weasel)
• The Ghost of Poplar Point, Farrar Straus (2007), ISBN 978-0-374-32540-4
• Signal, Farrar Straus (2009), ISBN 978-0-374-39915-3
• Wild Life, Farrar Straus (2011)
• Fort, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2015), ISBN 9780374324278

Selected children's picture books

• Dancing Skeleton, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker (Atheneum Books, 1989), ISBN 0-02-726452-1 – named a Best Book of the Year by the Library of Congress
• Clever Crow, illus. S. D. Schindler (Atheneum, 1998), ISBN 978-0-689-80671-1
• Cold Feet, illus. Robert Andrew Parker (DK Books for Children, 2000), ISBN 978-0-7894-2636-9. 2001 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for best picture book
• Casey in the Bath, illus. Farrar Straus Giroux (Macmillan, 1998)ISBN 978-0374410490

• Official website
• Cynthia DeFelice at publisher Macmillan US
• Cynthia DeFelice at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Cynthia C. DeFelice at Library of Congress, with 32 library catalog records