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Eve Bunting Children's Books in Order

Eve Bunting Children's by Eve Bunting contains 64 books, published between 1974 and 2013. The first book is Pitcher to Center Field (Short Story) (1974) and the newest is The Cart That Carried Martin (Short Story) (2013). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
64
Published
1974–2013
Pages on record
3,988 in 47 of 64 books
Reading time
66–100 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,988 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 47 of 64 titles with a page count on record.

See all 64 books in order Printable Eve Bunting Children's checklist

Eve Bunting Children's collects 64 short works published between 1974 and 2013, opening with Pitcher to Center Field (1974) and closing with The Cart That Carried Martin (2013). Most entries are short stories rather than full-length books, at a median of 74 pages. Schools, friendship, fear, runaways, animals and kidnapping recur as subjects, alongside science fiction and detective stories. The 1970s produced the most titles.

How many Eve Bunting Children's books are there?

Eve Bunting Children's has 64 books, released between 1974 and 2013.

Eve Bunting Children's Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 64 Eve Bunting Children's 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 Pitcher to Center Field (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 1 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1974)
  2. Cover of Springboard to Summer (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 2 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1975)
  3. Cover of High Tide for Labrador (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 3 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1975)
  4. Cover of Josefina Finds the Prince (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 4 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1976)
  5. Cover of The Tongue of the Ocean (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 5 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1976)
  6. Cover of One More Flight (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 6 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1976)
  7. Cover of Skateboard Four (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 8 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1976)
  8. Cover of Magic and the Night River (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 12 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1978)
  9. Cover of The Haunting of Kildoran Abbey by Eve Bunting, book 14 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1978)
  10. Cover of Oh, Rick (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 15 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1978)
  11. Cover of The Girl in the Painting by Eve Bunting, book 16 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1978)
  12. Cover of The Island of One (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 17 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1978)
  13. Cover of The Mask (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 19 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1978)
  14. Cover of The Mirror Planet (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 20 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1978)
  15. Cover of Day of the Earthlings (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 21 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1978)
  16. Cover of The Cloverdale Switch (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 22 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1979)
  17. Cover of Yesterday's Island (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 24 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1979)
  18. Cover of Blackbird Singing (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 26 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1980)
  19. Cover of Demetrius and the Golden Goblet (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 29 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1980)
  20. Cover of The Robot Birthday (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 30 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1980)
  21. Cover of The Spook Birds (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 33 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1981)
  22. Cover of The Ghosts of Departure Point (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 34 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1982)
  23. Cover of Karen Kepplewhite is the World's Best Kisser (Short Story) by Eve Bunting (1983)
  24. Cover of Maggie the Freak by Eve Bunting, book 37 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1984)
  1. 1
    Pitcher to Center Field (Short Story)1974 · 64 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197464
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  2. 2
    Springboard to Summer (Short Story)1975 · 63 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197563
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  3. 3
    High Tide for Labrador (Short Story)1975 · 77 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197577
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  4. 4
    Josefina Finds the Prince (Short Story)1976 · 64 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197664
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  5. 5
    The Tongue of the Ocean (Short Story)1976 · 35 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197635
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  6. 6
    One More Flight (Short Story)1976 · 91 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197691
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  7. 7
    Demon (Short Story)1976 · 39 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197639
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  8. 8
    Skateboard Four (Short Story)1976 · 63 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197663
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  9. 9
    The Ghost (Short Story)1976 · 37 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197637
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  10. 10
    The Creature of Cranberry Cove (Short Story)1976 · confirmed 1/4
    1976–
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  11. 11
    Cop Camp (Short Story)1977 · confirmed 1/4
    1977–
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  12. 12
    Magic and the Night River (Short Story)1978 · 46 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197846
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  13. 13
    The Robot People (Short Story)1978 · 25 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197825
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  14. 14
    The Haunting of Kildoran Abbey1978 · 159 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1978159
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  15. 15
    Oh, Rick (Short Story)1978 · 55 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197855
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  16. 16
    The Girl in the Painting1978 · 37 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197837
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  17. 17
    The Island of One (Short Story)1978 · 60 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197860
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  18. 18
    The Space People (Short Story)1978 · 27 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197827
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  19. 19
    The Mask (Short Story)1978 · 35 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197835
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  20. 20
    The Mirror Planet (Short Story)1978 · 35 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197835
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  21. 21
    Day of the Earthlings (Short Story)1978 · 25 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197825
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  22. 22
    The Cloverdale Switch (Short Story)1979 · 119 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1979119
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  23. 23
    Strange Things Happen in the Woods1979 · confirmed 1/4
    1979–
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  24. 24
    Yesterday's Island (Short Story)1979 · 74 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197974
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  25. 25
    The Big Red Barn (Short Story)1979 · confirmed 1/4
    1979–
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  26. 26
    Blackbird Singing (Short Story)1980 · 92 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198092
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  27. 27
    The Big Find (Short Story)1980 · 56 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198056
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  28. 28
    Mr. Pride's Umbrella1980 · 64 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198064
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  29. 29
    Demetrius and the Golden Goblet (Short Story)1980 · 41 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198041
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  30. 30
    The Robot Birthday (Short Story)1980 · 80 pages · confirmed 1/4
    198080
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Is there a chronological order for Eve Bunting Children's?

No separate chronological order is on record for Eve Bunting Children's, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.

Do you have to read Eve Bunting Children's books in order?

You should read the Eve Bunting Children's books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Eve Bunting Children's book also stands alone.

Where to start with Eve Bunting Children's

Start with Pitcher to Center Field (Short Story) (1974), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Eve Bunting Children's book?

The Cart That Carried Martin (Short Story) (2013) is the newest Eve Bunting Children's book released so far.

Is there a new Eve Bunting Children's book coming?

No next Eve Bunting Children's book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Eve Bunting Children's at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Eve Bunting Children's title on record dates from 2013, 13 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Eve Bunting Children's books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
3,988 pages across the 47 of 64 books with a recorded length, a median of 74 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Eve Bunting Children's books, 25 of 64, were published in the 1970s.

What the Eve Bunting Children's books are about

59 of the 64 Eve Bunting Children's 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 38 of 59. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Eve Bunting

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

Other series by Eve Bunting

Each series linked below has its own reading-order page.