Cooper Kids Books in Order

Cooper Kids by Frank E. Peretti contains 8 books, published between 1985 and 1997. The first book is The Door in the Dragon's Throat (1985) and the newest is Mayday at Two Thousand Five Hundred / Flying Blind (1997). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
8
Published
1985–1997
Confirmed
8 of 8 titles
Pages on record
1,056 in 7 of 8 books
Reading time
18–26 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,056 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 8 titles with a page count on record.

The Cooper Kids run through 8 adventure books by Frank E. Peretti, published between 1985 and 1997 and filed as children's fiction. Subjects record Christian life, the supernatural, buried treasure and survival alongside detective and mystery stories. The Door in the Dragon's Throat (1985) opens the sequence, and two titles close it in 1997: Mayday at Two Thousand Five Hundred / Flying Blind and The Legend of Annie Murphy. Escape from the Island of Aquarius (1986), The Tombs of Anak (1987), Trapped at the Bottom of the Sea (1989), The Deadly Curse of Toco-Rey (1996) and The Secret of the Desert Stone (1996) fill the middle. Measured volumes run to about 160 pages.

How many Cooper Kids books are there?

Cooper Kids has 8 books, released between 1985 and 1997.

Cooper Kids Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 8 Cooper Kids 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 Door in the Dragon's ThroatCooper Kids Adventures #11985 · 128 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1985128
  2. 2
    Escape from the Island of AquariusCooper Kids Adventures #21986 · 160 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1986160
  3. 3
    The Tombs of AnakCooper Kids Adventures #31987 · 144 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1987144
  4. 4
    Trapped at the Bottom of the SeaCooper Kids Adventures #41989 · 144 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1989144
  5. 5
    The Secret of the Desert StoneCooper Kids Adventures #51996 · 160 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1996160
  6. 6
    The Deadly Curse of Toco-ReyCooper Kids Adventures #61996 · 160 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1996160
  7. 7
    The Legend of Annie MurphyCooper Kids Adventures #71997 · 160 pages · confirmed 3/4
    1997160
  8. 8
    Mayday at Two Thousand Five Hundred / Flying BlindCooper Kids Adventures #81997 · confirmed 3/4
    1997

Do you have to read Cooper Kids books in order?

You should read the Cooper Kids books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Cooper Kids book also stands alone.

Where to start with Cooper Kids

Start with The Door in the Dragon's Throat (1985), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Cooper Kids book?

Mayday at Two Thousand Five Hundred / Flying Blind (1997) is the newest Cooper Kids book released so far.

Is there a new Cooper Kids book coming?

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

Cooper Kids at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Cooper Kids title on record dates from 1997, 29 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Cooper Kids books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
1,056 pages across the 7 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 160 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Cooper Kids books, 4 of 8, were published in the 1990s.

What the Cooper Kids books are about

All 8 Cooper Kids books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: christian life is tagged on 7 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Frank E. Peretti

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.