His wife is Eileen Spinelli, also a children's author. They have seven kids. Everything Jerry Spinelli writes is an absolute delight.
Books:
The Bathwater Gang
Blue Ribbon Blues
Book Cooks
Crash
Do the Funky Pickle
Dump Days
Fourth Grade Rats
In My Own Words (out of print)
It's Fine To Be Nine
It's Great To Be Eight
Jason and Marceline
Knots in My Yo-Yo String : The Autobiography of a Kid
The Library Card
Maniac Magee
Night of the Whale (out of print)
Picklemania (out of print)
Report to the Principal's Office
Space Station Seventh Grade
Stargirl
There's a Girl In My Hammerlock
Tooter Pepperday
Who Put That Hair In My Toothbrush?
Who Ran My Underwear Up the Flagpole? (out of print)
Wringer
thanks to :
http://teacher.scholastic.com/authorsandbooks/authors/spinelli/bio.htm
http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/rc/rc_ab_jsp.html
and as always
www.amazon.com