Nick and Tesla Books in Order

Nick and Tesla by Steve Hockensmith contains 6 books, published between 2013 and 2016. The first book is Nick and Tesla's High-Voltage Danger Lab (2013) and the newest is Nick and Tesla's Solar-Powered Showdown (2016). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
6
Published
2013–2016
Pages on record
1,020 in 4 of 6 books
Reading time
17–26 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,020 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 4 of 6 titles with a page count on record.

Nick and Tesla is a children's series by Steve Hockensmith about a brother and sister who build gadgets and solve mysteries. Six books run from Nick and Tesla's High-Voltage Danger Lab (2013) to Nick and Tesla's Solar-Powered Showdown (2016), by way of the Robot Army Rampage (2014), the Secret Agent Gadget Battle (2014), the Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove (2014) and the Special Effects Spectacular (2015). Science experiments, robots and tools run through the books, and the series is complete at six.

How many Nick and Tesla books are there?

Nick and Tesla has 6 books, released between 2013 and 2016.

Nick and Tesla Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 6 Nick and Tesla 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
    Nick and Tesla's High-Voltage Danger Lab2013 · 237 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013237
  2. 22014
  3. 3
    Nick and Tesla's Secret Agent Gadget Battle2014 · 254 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014254
  4. 4
    Nick and Tesla's Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove2014 · 270 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014270
  5. 52015
  6. 6
    Nick and Tesla's Solar-Powered Showdown2016 · 259 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016259

Is there a chronological order for Nick and Tesla?

No separate chronological order is on record for Nick and Tesla, 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 Nick and Tesla books in order?

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

Where to start with Nick and Tesla

Start with Nick and Tesla's High-Voltage Danger Lab (2013), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Nick and Tesla book?

Nick and Tesla's Solar-Powered Showdown (2016) is the newest Nick and Tesla book released so far.

Is there a new Nick and Tesla book coming?

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

Nick and Tesla at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Nick and Tesla title on record dates from 2016, 10 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Nick and Tesla books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
1,020 pages across the 4 of 6 books with a recorded length, a median of 256 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Nick and Tesla books, 6 of 6, were published in the 2010s.

What the Nick and Tesla books are about

5 of the 6 Nick and Tesla books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: brothers and sisters is tagged on 5 of 5. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Steve Hockensmith

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

Other series by Steve Hockensmith

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