Middle School Books in Order
Middle School by James Patterson contains 21 books, published between 2011 and 2025. The first book is Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2011) and the newest is Too Uncool for School: (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 21
- Published
- 2011–2025
- Confirmed
- 21 of 21 titles
- Pages on record
- 4,208 in 15 of 21 books
- Reading time
- 70–105 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 4,208 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 15 of 21 titles with a page count on record.
Middle School is a children's humour series by James Patterson, running to 21 books published between 2011 and 2025. Rafe Khatchadorian is the recurring character, and the books put him through school, friendship, family problems, moneymaking schemes and the politics of popularity. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2011) opens the series, which continues through Get Me Out of Here! (2012), Save Rafe! (2014) and Rafe's Aussie Adventure (2015) to Too Uncool for School (2025). The series is ongoing.
How many Middle School books are there?
Middle School has 21 books, released between 2011 and 2025.
Middle School Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 21 Middle School 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.
- 1Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life2011 · 281 pages · confirmed 4/420112814/4
- 2Get Me Out of Here!2012 · 257 pages · confirmed 4/420122574/4
- 3How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake Hill2013 · 256 pages · confirmed 4/420132564/4
- 4My Brother is a Big, Fat Liar2013 · confirmed 4/42013–4/4
- 5Ultimate Showdown2014 · 232 pages · confirmed 4/420142324/4
- 6How I Got Lost in London2014 · confirmed 4/42014–4/4
- 7Save Rafe!2014 · 288 pages · confirmed 4/420142884/4
- 8Rafe's Aussie Adventure2015 · 272 pages · confirmed 3/420152723/4
- 9Just My Rotten Luck2015 · 301 pages · confirmed 4/420153014/4
- 10Going Bush2016 · 288 pages · confirmed 4/420162884/4
- 11Dog's Best Friend2016 · 320 pages · confirmed 4/420163204/4
- 12Hollywood 1012016 · 176 pages · confirmed 4/420161764/4
- 13Escape to Australia / Million-Dollar Mess Down Under2017 · 257 pages · confirmed 4/420172574/4
- 14From Hero to Zero2017 · 288 pages · confirmed 4/420172884/4
- 15Born to Rock2019 · 320 pages · confirmed 4/420193204/4
- 16Master of Disaster2020 · 352 pages · confirmed 4/420203524/4
- 17Field Trip Fiasco2021 · confirmed 4/42021–4/4
- 18It's a Zoo in Here!2022 · 320 pages · confirmed 4/420223204/4
- 19Winter Blunderland2022 · confirmed 4/42022–4/4
- 20Million Dollar Mess2024 · confirmed 3/42024–3/4
- 21Too Uncool for School:2025 · confirmed 3/42025–3/4
Is there a chronological order for Middle School?
No separate chronological order is on record for Middle School, 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 Middle School books in order?
You should read the Middle School books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Middle School book also stands alone.
Where to start with Middle School
Start with Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (2011), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Middle School book?
Too Uncool for School: (2025) is the newest Middle School book released so far.
Is there a new Middle School book coming?
No next Middle School book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Middle School at a glance
- Still running
- Middle School is still running, with a title published as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Middle School books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 4,208 pages across the 15 of 21 books with a recorded length, a median of 288 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Middle School books, 15 of 21, were published in the 2010s.
- Corroboration
- 18 of the 21 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.
What the Middle School books are about
17 of the 21 Middle School books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: humor is tagged on 10 of 17. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Humor 10 of 17 books
- Children's fiction 8 of 17 books
- Schools 7 of 17 books
- Brothers and sisters 3 of 17 books
- Friendship 3 of 17 books
- Adventure stories 2 of 17 books
- Family problems 2 of 17 books
- Moneymaking projects 2 of 17 books
- Popularity 2 of 17 books
- Rafe Khatchadorian (Fictitious character) 2 of 17 books
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