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Courtney Sheinmel Books in Order

Courtney Sheinmel has written 11 books, published between 2012 and 2021. The first book is Stella Batts Needs a New Name (2012) and the newest is Helen Keller (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
11
Published
2012–2021
Pages on record
1,211 in 8 of 11 books
Reading time
20–30 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,211 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 11 titles with a page count on record.

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Courtney Sheinmel, born 21 June 1977 in Stanford, California, writes children's and young adult books. Sheinmel moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to New York City at the age of nine, took a Bachelor of Arts in English at Barnard College in 1999 and then a law degree at Fordham, and practised law for six years before a first novel, My So-Called Family, appeared in 2008. The catalogue holds 11 books published between 2012 and 2021, among them A Case of the Meanies (2012), Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow (2012), Stella Batts Needs a New Name (2012), None of Your Beeswax (2014), Superstar (2015), Scaredy Cat (2016) and Broken Birthday (2017). Recorded subjects include family life, schools, friendship and sleepovers, and the books are pitched at grades 1 to 3. Helen Keller (2021) is the newest listed title.

Stella Batts, a chapter book series, follows a third-grade girl who dreams of becoming a writer. She lives in Somers, California, where her family runs a candy shop, and the books take the form of her own autobiography.

How many Courtney Sheinmel books are there?

Courtney Sheinmel has 11 books, released between 2012 and 2021.

Courtney Sheinmel Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 11 Courtney Sheinmel books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Stella Batts Needs a New Name by Courtney Sheinmel (2012)
  2. Cover of Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow by Courtney Sheinmel (2012)
  3. Cover of Pardon Me by Courtney Sheinmel (2012)
  4. Cover of A Case of the Meanies by Courtney Sheinmel (2012)
  5. Cover of Who's in Charge by Courtney Sheinmel (2013)
  6. Cover of Something Blue by Courtney Sheinmel (2014)
  7. Cover of None of Your Beeswax by Courtney Sheinmel (2014)
  8. Cover of Superstar by Courtney Sheinmel (2015)
  9. Cover of Broken Birthday by Courtney Sheinmel (2017)
  10. Cover of Helen Keller by Courtney Sheinmel, book 15 of the She Persisted series (2021)
  1. 1
    Stella Batts Needs a New Name2012 · 150 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2012150
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  2. 2
    Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow2012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    Pardon Me2012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    A Case of the Meanies2012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    Who's in Charge2013 · 152 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013152
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    Something Blue2014 · 167 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014167
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    None of Your Beeswax2014 · 169 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014169
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    Superstar2015 · 179 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015179
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Scaredy Cat2016 · 154 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016154
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    Broken Birthday2017 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017160
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  11. 11
    Helen KellerShe Persisted #152021 · 80 pages · confirmed 2/4
    202180
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Courtney Sheinmel books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

She Persisted in order

1 book
  1. 15. Helen Keller

Standalone books

10 books

10 Courtney Sheinmel titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Courtney Sheinmel books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 11 Courtney Sheinmel books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Courtney Sheinmel

Start with Stella Batts Needs a New Name (2012), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Courtney Sheinmel book?

Helen Keller (2021) is the newest Courtney Sheinmel book released so far.

Is there a new Courtney Sheinmel book coming?

No next Courtney Sheinmel book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Courtney Sheinmel at a glance

Paused
No new Courtney Sheinmel title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
Release pace
Courtney Sheinmel books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
1,211 pages across the 8 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 157 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Courtney Sheinmel books, 10 of 11, were published in the 2010s.

What the Courtney Sheinmel books are about

All 11 Courtney Sheinmel books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: family life is tagged on 8 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.