Bullying book series in reading order

by Reki Kawahara

by James Patterson

by Lisa Greenwald

James Patterson

510 books• 73 series

James Patterson, born on March 22, 1947, is an American writer whose catalogue here holds 514 books published from 1976 to 2027. The run opens with The Thomas Berryman Number (1976), and Along Came a Spider (1992) and Kiss the Girls (1995) follow later. Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Maximum Ride, Daniel X, Witch & Wizard, NYPD Red, Private, Middle School and the Women's Murder Club are among the Patterson series, alongside standalone thrillers, non-fiction and romance. Marshall Karp shares the credit on 5 of the books. Patterson's sales exceed 425 million copies, and Patterson was the first person to sell one million e-books. Forbes ranked Patterson the highest-paid author in 2016, for a third year running, and the National Book Foundation gave Patterson the Literarian Award in November 2015. 27 Stars is scheduled for 2027.

Lisa Greenwald writes for middle-grade readers about friendship, school and adolescence. My Life in Pink & Green (2009) opens 29 catalogued books that reach You'll Find It All Still Here (2025). Six series divide the list: Pink & Green, TBH, Friendship List, Seagate Summers, Ellie's Deli and Fortune Tellers. Bullying, secrets, best friends, early dating and family life supply the material.

Gordon Korman

119 books• 22 series

Gordon Korman is a Canadian writer of children's and young adult fiction whose books have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and reached number one on the New York Times bestseller list. The catalogue holds 119 titles, from This Can't Be Happening at MacDonald Hall! (1977) to Sleepless (2026). Subject tags cover schools, friendship, humorous stories, adventure, mystery and detective stories, and shipwrecks. Series headings include Swindle Mysteries, Masterminds, Everest, Dive, Titanic, Ungifted and the Monday Night Football Club. Gordon Korman remains actively publishing.

Michael Morpurgo

171 books• 5 series

Sir Michael Morpurgo, born 5 October 1943, is an English author, poet, playwright and librettist best known for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). Morpurgo served as the third Children's Laureate from 2003 to 2005 and is President of BookTrust, a children's reading charity. Recurring themes include outsiders who triumph, survival and bonds with nature, set in places such as the Cornish coast and the First World War trenches. The catalogue holds 171 books from It Never Rained (1974) to Down Burrow Lane (2026), including the Mudpuddle Farm series.

Reki Kawahara is a Japanese novelist, born August 18, 1974, who created Sword Art Online and Accel World; both have been adapted as anime series. Kawahara has been called one of the most successful light novel writers of the 2010s. The catalogue lists 96 books from 2009 to 2026, with subject tags for virtual reality, video games, internet games and survival. Kuroyukihime's Return and The Red Storm Princess both date from 2009. Series include Sword Art Online Progressive, Sword Art Online Alternative Clover's Regret and Demons' Crest, and Goddess of the Night (2026) is the latest title.

Henry Winkler

49 books• 6 series

Henry Winkler is an American actor, producer, director and author, known to television audiences as Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli on Happy Days. As a children's author, Winkler writes humorous school stories: Hank Zipzer anchors the longest run, and Here's Hank, Ghost Buddy, Alien Superstar and Detective Duck follow. Learning disabilities, friendship, bullying and school field trips are recurring subjects. Fifty-six catalogued books start in 2003 and reach The Mystery at Emerald Pond (2025).

Jacqueline Wilson

178 books• 15 series

Jacqueline Wilson, born Jacqueline Aitken on 17 December 1945, is an English novelist who writes for children. Adoption, abuse and divorce are among the realistic topics the novels take on. Wilson made a debut in 1969 and has passed 100 books; this catalogue lists 178, the earliest dated entry being Hide And Seek (1972) and the latest The Seaside Sleepover (2025). Tracy Beaker, Hetty Feather, Girls, Sleepovers and Stevie Day are among the series. Friendship, sisters, family life and schools appear in the subject records.

Jan and Stan Berenstain wrote picture books about the Berenstain Bears. The run begins with The Big Honey Hunt (1962) and reaches 400 titles by The Berenstain Bears: Father's Day Blessings (2018). Family life, school, brothers and sisters, scouting, Christmas and Christian life supply the recurring subjects, and many of the books are told in rhyme. A median length of 32 pages places them with early readers. Publication peaked in the 1990s and the catalogue is likely complete.

Judy Blume

30 books• 7 series

Family life, siblings, friendship and growing up are Judy Blume's subjects, written largely for children and for readers around grades 3 to 5. Blume's 30 catalogued books begin with The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo (1969) and end with In the Unlikely Event (2015), the 1970s being the densest decade. The Fudge books, the Pain & The Great One books and the BFF titles form her series, alongside standalone novels, picture books and non-fiction.

Robin Stevens writes historical murder mysteries for children, and the catalogue counts 17 books from 2014 to 2023. Murder Most Unladylike (2014), also titled Murder is Bad Manners, is the first. Arsenic for Tea, First Class Murder, Jolly Foul Play and Mistletoe and Murder followed, and The Body in the Blitz (2023) is the newest. The Wells and Wong Mysteries, the Ministry of Unladylike Activity and the mini mysteries make up the Stevens series list, with schools and friendship among the subjects.

Andrew Clements

83 books• 10 series

Andrew Clements (May 29, 1949 to November 28, 2019) was an American children's author. Frindle, the first Clements novel, won an award decided by the votes of schoolchildren in about 20 U.S. states, and received the 2016 Phoenix Award, given to a book that missed a major prize on first publication. The catalogue lists 83 books from Bird Adalbert (1985) to The Frindle Files (2024). Schools, teachers, friendship and dogs recur in the subjects. The Clements series include Benjamin Pratt and the Keepers of the School, Jake Drake, Pets to the Rescue and Real Monsters.

David Walliams

56 books• 6 series

Born David Edward Williams on 20 August 1971, David Walliams is an English actor, comedian, writer and television personality. Walliams rose to fame with Matt Lucas on the BBC sketch shows Little Britain (2003–2006) and Come Fly with Me (2010–2011), judged Britain's Got Talent from 2012 to 2022, and wrote and starred in the sitcom Big School. Walliams's children's books have sold more than 50 million copies. The catalogue lists 56 titles from Inside Little Britain (2006) to The World’s Worst Superheroes (2025), including The Boy in the Dress (2008), Mr Stink (2009), Billionaire Boy (2010), Gangsta Granny (2011) and Awful Auntie (2014).

Chris d'Lacey is an English writer of children's fiction, best known for The Last Dragon Chronicles. Dragons run through much of the work, the Erth Dragons, the Dragons Of Wayward Crescent, alongside the Unicorne Files. Thirty-nine books are catalogued between A Hole At The Pole (1994) and The New Age (2018). Five titles appeared in 1998 alone: A Break in the Chain, Fly, Cherokee, Fly, Henry Spaloosh!, The Snail Patrol and The Table Football League. Magic, the supernatural, secret societies and adventure recur as subjects.

Frank E. Peretti (Frank Edward Peretti, born January 13, 1951) is a New York Times bestselling author of Christian fiction about the supernatural and spiritual warfare. The New York Times has credited Peretti with creating the Christian thriller genre, and This Present Darkness (1986) and Piercing the Darkness (1989) are the best-known novels. The catalogue lists 30 books from The Door in the Dragon's Throat (1985) to Hybrids (2015). Cooper Kids Adventures and Veritas Project are series. Peretti has held ministry credentials with the Assemblies of God and lives in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Carolyn Keene is a Stratemeyer Syndicate pen name, the credit on the Nancy Drew mysteries. Mildred Wirt Benson, one of the writers behind the name, used it from 1929 to 1953 and contributed to 23 of the first 30 Nancy Drew books. The catalogue lists 647 Carolyn Keene books, beginning with The Secret of the Old Clock, The Hidden Staircase and The Bungalow Mystery (all 1930) and reaching Vans & Villains (2026). Series include Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, Nancy Drew Files, Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, Nancy Drew Diaries, Nancy Drew: Girl Detective and Dana Girls Mystery Stories.

Nancy Krulik writes for children, and the catalogue lists Grades 1-3 as the reading level. Series credited to Krulik include Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo, How I Survived Middle School, Magic Bone, Princess Pulverizer and Project Droid, and George Brown, Class Clown appears among the characters. Subjects range across magic, schools, friendship, dogs, robots and humorous stories. The most recent listed book is Fangs for Having Us! (2021), and the catalogue marks the output as dormant.

Gene Luen Yang

72 books• 18 series

American cartoonist and author Gene Luen Yang was born on August 9, 1973. Yang taught computer science and directed information services at Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland, California, joined Hamline University's MFA program in writing for children and young adults in 2012, and was named the Library of Congress's Ambassador for Young People's Literature in 2016. The catalogue lists 72 books from Rosary Comic Book (2003) to The Books of Clash Volume 8 (2026), including American Born Chinese (2006), The Eternal Smile (2009) and Level Up (2011). Series include Secret Coders, Boxers & Saints, Shadow Hero, Shang-Chi, New Super-Man and Monkey Prince. Magdalene Visaggio and Greg Hahn each share credit on 2 books, and Dan Watters and Phillip Kennedy Johnson on 1 each.

Tom Palmer is a British children's author from Leeds whose interest in reading began with football articles. After university Palmer worked in libraries and bookshops, then published a first book in 2002, If You're Proud to Be a Leeds Fan. Foul Play, Palmer's first children's book for Puffin, was shortlisted for the 2009 Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. Palmer wrote a new Roy of the Rovers book in 2018, won the Ruth Rendell Award in 2019 and published a 50th book in 2020. Series include Football Academy, Rugby Academy, Football Detective, Soccer Diaries, Conkers and Roy Of The Rovers, and subjects include soccer, bullying and missing persons.

Abby Klein has 48 books in the catalogue, published from 2004 to 2018, and the two named series are Ready, Freddy! Second Grade and Ready, Freddy! Reader. Tooth Trouble, Homework Hassles and The King of Show-and-Tell all date from 2004. Subjects include first grade, school, teeth, twins, bullies, pets and Halloween. Gamer Boy (2018) is the newest title, and the run is listed as likely complete.

Kate Cann is an English author of fiction, born in 1954. Teenagers, love, dating, self-esteem, bullying and sexual ethics supply the subject matter across 24 catalogued books published between 1997 and 2012. In the Deep End / Ready? (1997) opens the run and Witch Crag (2012) closes it. Art & Coll, the Hard Cash Trilogy, Crow Girl and Rayne are the four series listed under Cann's name. The 2000s are the busiest decade, and the median recorded length is 329 pages.

Michael Fry's catalogue holds 13 books from Over The Hedge (1996) to Ghosted (2021), and the listed series are Over The Hedge, Odd Squad and How to be a Supervillian. Recorded subjects include children's fiction, humorous stories, middle schools, bullying, superheroes and supervillains. Knights of the Picnic Table (1997), Bully Bait (2013), King Karl (2014), The Naughty List (2015), How to Be a Supervillain (2017) and Bobbie Mendoza Saves the World (2018) are other titles. The catalogue marks Fry as dormant.