- At the Edge: Daring Acts in Desperate Times. (Scholastic Canada, 2009).
- G is for Golden Boy: A Manitoba Alphabet. Illustrated by Brian Lund. (Sleeping Bear Press, 2009).
- Lost Treasures: True Stories of Discovery. (Scholastic Canada, 2006)
- Survivors: True Death-Defying Escapes. (Scholastic Canada, 2003)
- Extreme Science. (Scholastic Canada, 2000)
- Accidental Discoveries. (Scholastic Canada, 1999)
(Previously published under the title, The Serendipity Effect)
- Whose Bright Idea Was It? (Scholastic Canada,1997)
- Mysteries of Time. (Scholastic Canada, 1992)

Awards & Honours

Lost Treasures: True Stories of Discovery
Nominated for the 2008 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award
Nominated for the 2008 Rocky Mountain Children’s Choice Book Award
Winner of the 2007 McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award,
Our Choice, Canadian Children’s Book Centre, 2007
Survivors: True Death-Defying Escapes
Winner of the 2006 Red Cedar Award
Our Choice, Canadian Children’s Book Centre, 2005
Winner of the 2004 Silver Birch Award
Extreme Science
ResourceLinks Magazine – Best of the Year 2000
Our Choice, Canadian Children’s Book Centre, 2000
Accidental Discoveries: From Laughing Gas to Dynamite
Nominated for the 1999 Norma Fleck Award for Non-Fiction
Selected, CBC Radio Recommended Reading List
Whose Bright Idea Was It?
Selected, Canadian Toy Testing Council, 25 Great Books, 2001
Nominated for the 2000 Red Cedar Award
Nominated for the 1998 Silver Birch Award
Our Choice, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 1998
Selected, Emergency Librarian: Top Outstanding Books for 1997
Mysteries of Time
Our Choice, Canadian Children’s Book Centre, 1993

E-mail address: lverstraete@mts.net

Website: www.larryverstraete.com