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Watt Key Books in Order

Watt Key has written 10 books, published between 2004 and 2021. The first book is Alabama Moon (2004) and the newest is Cottonlandia (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
10
Published
2004–2021
Pages on record
1,454 in 6 of 10 books
Reading time
24–36 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,454 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 6 of 10 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Watt Key, author of the Alabama Moon series

Albert Watkins Key Jr. publishes as Watt Key and as Albert Key, and the American author's work is young-adult survival fiction. Key lives in Alabama. The debut novel, Alabama Moon, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2006, won the 2007 E.B. White Read-Aloud Award for older readers and a 2006 Parents' Choice Award, has been translated into eight languages, and was made into a 2009 feature film starring John Goodman; TIME Magazine listed it in 2015 among the top 100 young-adult books of all time. The catalogue holds 10 titles reaching Cottonlandia (2021), with Dirt Road Home (2010), Fourmile (2012), Terror at Bottle Creek (2016) and Deep Water (2018) among them.

How many Watt Key books are there?

Watt Key has 10 books, released between 2004 and 2021. 2 of them belong to the Alabama Moon series.

Watt Key Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 10 Watt Key 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 Alabama Moon by Watt Key, book 1 of the Alabama Moon series (2004)
  2. Cover of Dirt Road Home by Watt Key, book 2 of the Alabama Moon series (2010)
  3. Cover of Fourmile by Watt Key (2012)
  4. Cover of Among the Swamp People by Watt Key (2015)
  5. Cover of Terror at Bottle Creek by Watt Key (2016)
  6. Cover of Hideout by Watt Key (2017)
  7. Cover of Deep Water by Watt Key (2018)
  8. Cover of Beast by Watt Key (2020)
  1. 1
    Alabama MoonAlabama Moon #12004 · 294 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004294
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  2. 2
    Dirt Road HomeAlabama Moon #22010 · confirmed 1/4
    2010–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  3. 3
    Fourmile2012 · confirmed 1/4
    2012–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  4. 4
    Among the Swamp People2015 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015208
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  5. 5
    Terror at Bottle Creek2016 · 224 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016224
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  6. 6
    Hideout2017 · 320 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2017320
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  7. 7
    Deep Water2018 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2018272
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  8. 8
    Bay Boy2019 · 136 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019136
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  9. 9
    Beast2020 · confirmed 1/4
    2020–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  10. 10
    Cottonlandia2021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021–
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK

Watt Key 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.

Alabama Moon in order

2 books
  1. 1. Alabama Moon
  2. 2. Dirt Road Home

Standalone books

8 books

8 Watt Key titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Watt Key books in order?

You only need to read Watt Key books in order within the Alabama Moon series, which holds 2 of the 10 Watt Key books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Watt Key

Start with Alabama Moon (2004), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Watt Key book?

Cottonlandia (2021) is the newest Watt Key book released so far.

Is there a new Watt Key book coming?

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

Awards Watt Key has won

Wikidata records 1 award for Watt Key. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • E. B. White Read Aloud Award for Middle Readers2007Wonfor Alabama Moon

Watt Key at a glance

Paused
No new Watt Key title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
Release pace
Watt Key books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
1,454 pages across the 6 of 10 books with a recorded length, a median of 248 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Watt Key books, 7 of 10, were published in the 2010s.

What the Watt Key books are about

9 of the 10 Watt Key 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 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.