Will Mara Books in Order
Will Mara has written 27 books, published between 1999 and 2022. The first book is What's Up with the New Principal? (1999) and the newest is The Secret of Locker 24 (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 27
- Published
- 1999–2022
- Pages on record
- 2,674 in 17 of 27 books
- Reading time
- 45–67 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,674 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 17 of 27 titles with a page count on record.
Will Mara's catalogue mixes juvenile literature with thrillers: schools, school principals, practical jokes, birds, blue jays and tsunamis sit among the subjects alongside victims of terrorism. The 27 books run from What's Up with the New Principal? (1999) to The Secret of Locker 24 (2022), and the median length is 120 pages. NFL, Jason Hammond Novels and Izzy Jeen the Big-mouth Queen are the three series credited to Mara. The Draft (2006), The Cut (2007) and The Comeback (2008) fall in the middle of the run, and nothing has been listed since 2022.
How many Will Mara books are there?
Will Mara has 27 books, released between 1999 and 2022. They include 3 series and 5 titles listed outside any series.
Will Mara Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 27 Will Mara 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.
- 1What's Up with the New Principal?1999 · 127 pages · confirmed 1/419991271/4
- 2Wave2005 · 295 pages · confirmed 1/420052951/4
- 320063361/4
- 420072891/4
- 52008–1/4
- 62008–1/4
- 7The Innkeeper2010 · confirmed 1/42010–1/4
- 8The Gemini Virus2012 · 355 pages · confirmed 1/420123551/4
- 920134241/4
- 102013321/4
- 112013321/4
- 122013321/4
- 132014321/4
- 142014–1/4
- 152014321/4
- 162014321/4
- 172016–1/4
- 18Fallout2017 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/420172881/4
- 192018641/4
- 2020191201/4
- 212019–1/4
- 222019–1/4
- 2320211201/4
- 242021–1/4
- 25They Better Leave Sandra Alone or ElseIzzy Jeen the Big-mouth Queen #12022 · 64 pages · confirmed 1/42022641/4
- 262022–1/4
- 272022–1/4
Will Mara 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.
Backyard Safari in order
7 booksTwisted in order
4 booksNFL in order
3 books- 1. The Draft
- 2. The Cut
- 3. The Comeback
Jason Hammond Novels in order
2 booksIzzy Jeen the Big-mouth Queen in order
2 booksDK Readers Level 3 in order
2 booksDK Life Stories in order
1 bookAnimals, Animals in order
1 book- 4. Deer
Standalone books
5 books5 Will Mara titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Will Mara books in order?
You only need to read Will Mara books in order within each series: the books listed here span 3 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.
Where to start with Will Mara
Start with What's Up with the New Principal? (1999), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Will Mara book?
The Secret of Locker 24 (2022) is the newest Will Mara book released so far.
Is there a new Will Mara book coming?
No next Will Mara book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Will Mara at a glance
- Paused
- No new Will Mara title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Will Mara books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 2,674 pages across the 17 of 27 books with a recorded length, a median of 120 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Will Mara books, 16 of 27, were published in the 2010s.
What the Will Mara books are about
19 of the 27 Will Mara books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: juvenile literature is tagged on 9 of 19. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.