Philippa Dowding

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2009
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Lost Gargoyle

1 - The Gargoyle in My Yard (Apr-2009)
2 - The Gargoyle Overhead (Mar-2010)
3 - The Gargoyle at the Gates (Dec-2012)

Weird Stories Gone Wrong

1 - Jake and the Giant Hand (Oct-2014)
2 - Myles and the Monster Outside (Oct-2015)
3 - Carter and the Curious Maze (Sep-2016)
4 - Alex and the Other (Apr-2018)
5 - Blackwells and the Briny Deep (Oct-2018)

Book List in Order: 14 titles

  • The Gargoyle in My Yard

    Lost Gargoyle - 1

    Commended for the 2009 Resource Links Best Books and for the 2010 Best Books for Kids and Teens, short-listed for the 2012 Diamond Willow Award Chosen for the Toronto Public Library's 2015 Great Reads for Kids collection What do you do when a 4...

  • The Gargoyle Overhead

    Lost Gargoyle - 2

    Short-listed for the 2012 Silver Birch Express Award What if your best friend was a naughty 400-year-old gargoyle? And what if he just happened to be in terrible danger? It’s not always easy, but thirteen-year-old Katherine Newberry is friends wit...

  • The Gargoyle at the Gates

    Lost Gargoyle - 3

    2014 Red Cedar Book Award -- Shortlisted2014 Forest of Reading, Silver Birch Express -- Shortlisted, Fiction2013 Diamond Willow Award -- Shortlisted2013 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award -- Shortlisted2013 Saskatchewan Young Reader’...

  • Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden

    This morning, I woke up on the ceiling … So begins the strange story of Gwendolyn Golden. One perfectly ordinary day for no apparent reason, she wakes up floating around her room like one of her little brother’s Batman balloons.Puberty is weird e...

  • Jake and the Giant Hand

    Weird Stories Gone Wrong - 1

    The first in a series of scary tall tales from award-winning children’s novelist Philippa Dowding.Why is Grandpa acting so weird? And why are there so many giant flies?Jake spends every summer on his grandpa’s farm. But this year, things are a li...

  • Myles and the Monster Outside

    Weird Stories Gone Wrong - 2

    2017 Silver Birch Express Award Honour Book • 2017 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Book Award -- Shortlisted • 2017 Diamond Willow Award -- ShortlistedThe second instalment in a series of scary tall tales from acclaimed children’s novelis...

  • Carter and the Curious Maze

    Weird Stories Gone Wrong - 3

    Carter discovers a creepy maze at the fair and travels farther and farther back in time. How will he ever get back to the present?The fair is dull, dull, dull, and nothing interesting will ever happen to Carter again … until Carter discovers the cu...

  • Everton Miles Is Stranger Than Me

    The sequel to The Strange Gift of Gwendolyn Golden, shortlisted for the OLA Red Maple Award.I wander around like any normal, paranoid, self-absorbed teenager. Do we all think we’re being chased by deadly entities, I wonder? Probably, but how many o...

  • Alex and the Other

    Weird Stories Gone Wrong - 4

    Beware The Other … Alex is the loneliest boy at school. Not only are his parents away (again), but his beloved cat is missing. Plus, one morning his reflection in the haunted bathroom mirror at school starts talking to him. Then two mysterious stra...



  • Oculum

    As far as Miranda1 knows, there is one world: Oculum. Its dome, its walls and its garden are all there is. That's what the residents have been taught since birth. But William1 shows her something: a door in Oculum's wall. And if there is a door, ther...

  • Blackwells and the Briny Deep

    Weird Stories Gone Wrong - 5

    Do you hear the distant drums? And what about that weird screaming … Emma Blackwell used to love mermaids. Jonah Blackwell used to love pirates. And William Blackwell tried to be a good captain. Which he would be, if he could get his twin brother ...

  • Quinn and the Quiet, Quiet

    Quinn might get used to the food, Work Bots, and creating the Blue Brickâ"¢ … but why are children all around him turning blue? Quinn Fleet, twelve, Packager (QF12P) has only been at the Work Centre for three days, but he’s already seen a Caver r...

  • Firefly

    Finalist for the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for Young People’s Literature - Text Firefly lived in the park across from her mother’s home. It was safer there. But after the bad night happens, and her baseball-bat-wielding...

  • Oculum Echo

    The explosions come in the night. Miranda1, Mannfred, Grannie, and the one thousand children of Oculum must flee their farm, chased by the UnRuly and their bombs. Just as they begin their journey through the wasteland and towards the safety of the gr...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Philippa Dowding has published 14 books.

Philippa Dowding does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Oculum Echo, was published in October 2022.

The first book by Philippa Dowding, The Gargoyle in My Yard, was published in April 2009.

Yes. Philippa Dowding has 2 series.
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