Kelly Easton Books in Order

Kelly Easton has written 10 books, published between 2001 and 2011. The first book is The Life History of a Star (2001) and the newest is Time in the Sleeping Sky (2011). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
2001–2011
Pages on record
851 in 5 of 10 books
Reading time
14–21 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 851 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 10 titles with a page count on record.

Kelly Easton writes children's fiction, and the catalogue lists 10 books from The Life History of a Star (2001) to Time in the Sleeping Sky (2011). Betts Pets is the series on the site. Trouble at Betts Pets (2002), Canaries and Criminals (2003), Walking on Air (2004), Aftershock (2006), Hiroshima Dreams (2007), White Magic (2007), To Be Mona (2008) and The Outlandish Adventures of Liberty Aimes (2009) complete the list. Subject headings include pet shops, homeless persons, the Vietnam War, veterans, diaries, and brothers and sisters. The list is marked likely complete.

How many Kelly Easton books are there?

Kelly Easton has 10 books, released between 2001 and 2011. 2 of them belong to the Betts Pets series.

Kelly Easton Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Kelly Easton 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. 1
    The Life History of a Star2001 · 215 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001215
  2. 2
    Trouble at Betts PetsBetts Pets #12002 · 133 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002133
  3. 3
    Canaries and CriminalsBetts Pets #22003 · 118 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003118
  4. 4
    Walking on Air2004 · confirmed 1/4
    2004
  5. 5
    Aftershock2006 · confirmed 1/4
    2006
  6. 6
    White Magic2007 · 193 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007193
  7. 7
    Hiroshima Dreams2007 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007192
  8. 8
    To Be Mona2008 · confirmed 1/4
    2008
  9. 92009
  10. 10
    Time in the Sleeping Sky2011 · confirmed 1/4
    2011

Kelly Easton 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.

Betts Pets in order

2 books
  1. 1. Trouble at Betts Pets
  2. 2. Canaries and Criminals

Standalone books

8 books

8 Kelly Easton titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Kelly Easton books in order?

You only need to read Kelly Easton books in order within the Betts Pets series, which holds 2 of the 10 Kelly Easton books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Kelly Easton

Start with The Life History of a Star (2001), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Kelly Easton book?

Time in the Sleeping Sky (2011) is the newest Kelly Easton book released so far.

Is there a new Kelly Easton book coming?

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

Kelly Easton at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Kelly Easton title on record dates from 2011, 15 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Kelly Easton books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
851 pages across the 5 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 192 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Kelly Easton books, 9 of 10, were published in the 2000s.

What the Kelly Easton books are about

5 of the 10 Kelly Easton books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 3 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.