The Collier brothers have collaborated on two other books. In The Bloody Country, fifteen-year-old Ben Buck moves with his family from Connecticut to Pennsylvania in the mid-eighteenth century only to become involved in the property conflict between the two states.

Wanting to be a hero, fourteen-year-old Justin becomes involved in Shays Rebellion in The Winter Hero.

Several of James Collier's other books may be of interest to readers of My Brother Sam Is Dead. In Battleground: The United States Army in World War II, Collier describes the four years of war and outlines the strategy that led American forces to victory. In The Teddy Bear Habit, eleven-year-old George Stable yearns to be an entertainer and finds that his childhood teddy bear is his good luck charm. A New York record company attempts to turn George into a singing, guitar-playing teen-age idol in the book's sequel, Rich...