Sherri L. Smith Books in Order

Sherri L. Smith has written 21 books, published between 2002 and 2024. The first book is Lucy the Giant (2002) and the newest is Pearl (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
21
Published
2002–2024
Confirmed
1 of 21 titles
Pages on record
2,473 in 12 of 21 books
Reading time
41–62 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,473 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 12 of 21 titles with a page count on record.

Photo of Sherri L. Smith, author of the Avatar Graphic Novels series

Sherri L. Smith is an American writer whose novel Flygirl (2009) was named to the American Library Association's 2010 Best Books for Young Adults list. The catalogue holds 21 titles published between 2002 and 2024, from Lucy the Giant (2002) to Pearl (2024), taking in Sparrow (2006), Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet (2008), Orleans (2013), The Toymaker's Apprentice (2015) and Pasadena (2016), alongside Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen? (2018) and What Is the Civil Rights Movement? (2020). Avatar Graphic Novels is the one series recorded, and Who Was/Is…? carries a character entry. Subjects cover children's fiction, coming of age, family problems, runaways, friendship, grandmothers and schools.

How many Sherri L. Smith books are there?

Sherri L. Smith has 21 books, released between 2002 and 2024. 4 of them belong to the Avatar Graphic Novels series.

Sherri L. Smith Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 21 Sherri L. Smith 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
    Lucy the Giant2002 · 217 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002217
  2. 2
    Sparrow2006 · 192 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006192
  3. 3
    Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet2008 · 176 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2008176
  4. 4
    Flygirl2009 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2009288
  5. 5
    Orleans2013 · 324 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2013324
  6. 6
    The Toymaker's Apprentice2015 · 400 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015400
  7. 7
    Pasadena2016 · 228 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016228
  8. 8
    Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen?Who Was/Is...? #1562018 · confirmed 3/4
    2018
  9. 9
    Avatar: Tsu'tey's PathAvatar Graphic Novels #12019 · 136 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019136
  10. 10
    The Blossom and the Firefly2020 · 320 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020320
  11. 11
    What Is the Civil Rights Movement?What Was...? #482020 · confirmed 2/4
    2020
  12. 12
    Disney Villains: Ursula and the Seven Seas2021 · 72 pages · confirmed 2/4
    202172
  13. 13
    What Was the Harlem Renaissance?What Was...? #552021 · confirmed 2/4
    2021
  14. 14
    My Little Golden Book About Misty Copeland2022 · 24 pages · confirmed 2/4
    202224
  15. 15
    Avatar: The High Ground, Volume 1Avatar Graphic Novels #22022 · 96 pages · confirmed 2/4
    202296
  16. 16
    What Was Reconstruction?What Was...? #602022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022
  17. 17
    Avatar: The High GroundAvatar #22023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023
  18. 18
    Avatar: The High Ground, Volume 2Avatar Graphic Novels #32023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023
  19. 19
    Avatar: The High Ground, Volume 3Avatar Graphic Novels #42023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023
  20. 202024
  21. 21
    Pearl2024 · confirmed 2/4
    2024

Sherri L. Smith 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.

Avatar Graphic Novels in order

4 books
  1. 1. Avatar: Tsu'tey's Path
  2. 2. Avatar: The High Ground, Volume 1
  3. 3. Avatar: The High Ground, Volume 2
  4. 4. Avatar: The High Ground, Volume 3

What Was...? in order

3 books
  1. 48. What Is the Civil Rights Movement?
  2. 55. What Was the Harlem Renaissance?
  3. 60. What Was Reconstruction?

Elizabeth E. Wein Non-Fiction

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Avatar in order

1 book
  1. 2. Avatar: The High Ground

Who Was/Is...? in order

1 book
  1. 156. Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen?

Standalone books

11 books

11 Sherri L. Smith titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Sherri L. Smith books in order?

You only need to read Sherri L. Smith books in order within the Avatar Graphic Novels series, which holds 4 of the 21 Sherri L. Smith books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Sherri L. Smith

Start with Lucy the Giant (2002), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Sherri L. Smith book?

Pearl (2024) is the newest Sherri L. Smith book released so far.

Is there a new Sherri L. Smith book coming?

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

Sherri L. Smith at a glance

Still publishing
Sherri L. Smith published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
Sherri L. Smith books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,473 pages across the 12 of 21 books with a recorded length, a median of 204 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Sherri L. Smith books, 12 of 21, were published in the 2020s.

What the Sherri L. Smith books are about

10 of the 21 Sherri L. Smith 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 5 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.