Rich Wallace Books in Order
Rich Wallace has written 43 books, published between 1996 and 2021. The first book is Riding Time (1996) and the newest is Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 43
- Published
- 1996–2021
- Pages on record
- 3,772 in 30 of 43 books
- Reading time
- 63–94 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,772 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 30 of 43 titles with a page count on record.
Sport drives Rich Wallace's fiction for young readers. Basketball and soccer supply most of the plots, with teamwork, sportsmanship, competition and self-confidence among the listed subjects, across the Winning Season, Kickers, Game Face and Up2u series. Wallace's 43 catalogued books start at Riding Time and Wrestling Sturbridge in 1996 and end with Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men (2021). Volumes are short, at a median of 117 pages.
How many Rich Wallace books are there?
Rich Wallace has 43 books, released between 1996 and 2021. They include 4 series and 18 titles listed outside any series.
Rich Wallace Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 43 Rich Wallace 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.
- 1Riding Time1996 · confirmed 1/41996–1/4
- 2Wrestling Sturbridge1996 · 133 pages · confirmed 1/419961331/4
- 3Playing Without the Ball2000 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/420002241/4
- 4Losing Is Not an Option2003 · 127 pages · confirmed 1/420031271/4
- 5Restless2003 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/420031761/4
- 620041121/4
- 720041181/4
- 820051281/4
- 920051161/4
- 102005–1/4
- 1120061281/4
- 1220061191/4
- 1320061181/4
- 14One Good Punch2007 · 114 pages · confirmed 1/420071141/4
- 1520071281/4
- 1620071151/4
- 17Dishes2008 · confirmed 1/42008–1/4
- 18Perpetual Check2009 · confirmed 1/42009–1/4
- 1920101191/4
- 202010–1/4
- 212010–1/4
- 2220101151/4
- 23Sports Camp2010 · confirmed 1/42010–1/4
- 24Shots on Goal2010 · confirmed 1/42010–1/4
- 25War and Watermelon2011 · 184 pages · confirmed 1/420111841/4
- 262013791/4
- 27Wicked Cruel2013 · 195 pages · confirmed 1/420131951/4
- 28Babe Conquers the World: The Legendary Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias2014 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/420142721/4
- 292015801/4
- 302016481/4
- 3120161121/4
- 32Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights2016 · 352 pages · confirmed 1/420163521/4
- 3320161121/4
- 342016481/4
- 352016481/4
- 362016241/4
- 372016481/4
- 382016–1/4
- 392017801/4
- 40Bound by Ice: A True North Pole Survival Story2017 · confirmed 1/42017–1/4
- 41First Generation: 36 Trailblazing Immigrants and Refugees Who Make America Great2018 · confirmed 1/42018–1/4
- 42The Teachers March!2020 · confirmed 1/42020–1/4
- 43Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men2021 · confirmed 1/42021–1/4
Rich Wallace series in order
The series linked below has its own reading-order page.
- Winning Season books in order 10 books
Rich Wallace 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.
Kickers in order
4 books- 1. The Ball Hogs
- 2. Fake Out
- 3. Benched
- 4. Game-Day Jitters
Haunted in order
4 booksGame Face in order
4 booksUp2u in order
3 booksStandalone books
18 books18 Rich Wallace titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Rich Wallace books in order?
You only need to read Rich Wallace books in order within each series: the books listed here span 4 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Rich Wallace
Start with The Roar of the Crowd (2004), the first Winning Season book. The earliest catalogued title overall is Riding Time (1996).
What is the newest Rich Wallace book?
Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men (2021) is the newest Rich Wallace book released so far.
Is there a new Rich Wallace book coming?
No next Rich Wallace book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Rich Wallace at a glance
- Paused
- No new Rich Wallace title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
- Release pace
- Rich Wallace books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 3,772 pages across the 30 of 43 books with a recorded length, a median of 117 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Rich Wallace books, 23 of 43, were published in the 2010s.
What the Rich Wallace books are about
39 of the 43 Rich Wallace 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 22 of 39. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Children's fiction 22 of 39 books
- Schools 7 of 39 books
- Basketball 6 of 39 books
- Soccer 6 of 39 books
- Sportsmanship 6 of 39 books
- Teamwork (Sports) 6 of 39 books
- Competition (Psychology) 5 of 39 books
- Friendship 5 of 39 books
- Ghosts 5 of 39 books
- Self-confidence 5 of 39 books
- Soccer stories 5 of 39 books