Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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  • Bibliography:
    121 Books (10 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1972
  • Latest Book:
    May 2018
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Full Series List in Order

Alice

1 - Starting With Alice (Sep-2002)
2 - Alice In Blunderland (Sep-2003)
3 - Lovingly Alice (Sep-2004)
4 - The Agony of Alice (Sep-1985)
5 - Alice in Rapture, Sort of (Apr-1989)
6 - Reluctantly Alice (Apr-1991)
7 - All but Alice (May-1992)
8 - Alice in April (May-1993)
9 - Alice In-Between (Mar-1994)
10 - Alice the Brave (May-1995)
11 - Alice in Lace (Mar-1996)
12 - Outrageously Alice (May-1997)
13 - Achingly Alice (Jun-1998)
14 - Alice on the Outside (Jun-1999)
15 - The Grooming of Alice (May-2000)
16 - Alice Alone (Apr-2001)
17 - Simply Alice (May-2002)
18 - Patiently Alice (May-2003)
19 - Including Alice (May-2004)
20 - Alice on Her Way (May-2005)
21 - Alice in the Know (May-2006)
22 - Dangerously Alice (May-2007)
23 - Almost Alice (Jun-2008)
24 - Intensely Alice (Jun-2009)
25 - Alice in Charge (Jun-2010)
26 - Incredibly Alice (May-2011)
27 - Alice on Board (May-2012)
28 - Now I'll Tell You Everything (Oct-2013)

Bessledorf Hotel

1 - The Mad Gasser of Bessledorf Street (Sep-1983)
2 - The Bodies in the Bessledorf Hotel (Sep-1986)
3 - Bernie and the Bessledorf Ghost (May-1990)
4 - Face in the Bessledorf Funeral Parlor (Oct-1993)
5 - The Bomb in the Bessledorf Bus Depot (Mar-1996)
6 - The Treasure of Bessledorf Hill (Mar-1998)
7 - Peril in the Bessledorf Parachute Factory (Feb-2000)
8 - Bernie Magruder and the Bats in the Belfry (Mar-2003)

Club of Mysteries

1 - The Grand Escape (Apr-1993)
2 - The Healing of Texas Jake (Apr-1997)
3 - Carlotta's Kittens (Oct-2000)
4 - Polo's Mother (May-2005)

Danny

1 - Being Danny's Dog (Sep-1995)
2 - Danny's Desert Rats (Jun-1998)

Emily

1 - Emily's Fortune (Jun-2010)
2 - Emily and Jackson Hiding Out (Aug-2012)

Hatfields and Malloys

1 - Boys Start the War (Mar-1993)
2 - The Girls Get Even (Sep-1993)
3 - Boys Against Girls (Oct-1994)
4 - The Girls' Revenge (Sep-1998)
5 - A Traitor Among the Boys (Sep-1999)
6 - A Spy Among the Girls (Sep-2000)
7 - The Boys Return (Sep-2001)
8 - The Girls Take Over (Sep-2002)
9 - Boys In Control (Sep-2003)
10 - Girls Rule! (Sep-2004)
Boys Rock! (Oct-2005)
Who Won the War? (Sep-2006)

Shiloh

1 - Shiloh (Oct-1991)
2 - Shiloh Season (Sep-1996)
3 - Saving Shiloh (Aug-1997)
4 - A Shiloh Christmas (Sep-2015)

Simply Sarah

1 - Anyone Can Eat Squid! (May-2005)
2 - Cuckoo Feathers (Apr-2006)
3 - Patches and Scratches (Apr-2007)
4 - Eating Enchiladas (Apr-2008)

The Witch

1 - Witch's Sister (Jan-1975)
2 - Witch Water (Jul-1977)
3 - The Witch Herself (Jul-1978)
4 - The Witch's Eye (Sep-1990)
5 - Witch Weed (Aug-1991)
6 - The Witch Returns (Aug-1992)

The York Trilogy

1 - Shadows on the Wall (Aug-1980)
2 - Faces in the Water (Mar-1981)
3 - Footprints at the Window (Aug-1981)

Book List in Order: 121 titles

  • Making It Happen

    • / General Fiction
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  • To Walk the Sky Path

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Billie Tommie, a ten-year-old Seminole Indian, lives with his family in a chickee on a mangrove island in the Florida Everglades. Billie is the first in his family to attend school. Now he walks in two worlds--the traditonal world of his ancestors an...

  • Witch's Sister

    The Witch - 1

    When the darkness, tolls the hour, I shall have you in my power... Lynn and her best friend, Mouse, are positive their neighbor, Mrs. Tuggle, is a witch. And they suspect the old woman is forcing Lynn''s sister, Judith, to join her coven to witches....

  • Getting along with Your Family

  • Walking Through the Dark

  • Witch Water

    The Witch - 2

    Lynn and her best friend, Mouse, are sure that their neighbor Mrs. Tuggle is a witch. And they know it's gone beyond being just a game. Mrs. Tuggle is after Mouse, preying on her emotional turmoil after the separation of her parents. But Lynn is dete...

  • The Witch Herself

    The Witch - 3

    When Lynn Morley's mother plans to move her writing studio into old Mrs. Tuggle's house for the winter, Lynn and her best friend, Mouse, are terrified for Mrs. Morley's safety--because Mrs. Tuggle is a witch. Lynn and Mouse are sure of that. But no o...

  • Revelations

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    When not driven into shallows by a sermonizing overcast, this is a generally appealing story about the liberation of a 34-year-old unmarried woman from a constricting environment and family. Mary Martha Myles has lived all her life within the smother...

  • How Lazy Can You Get

    Timothy, Amy, and Douglas John Megglethorp are in for the shock of their lives! Their parents have gone away for a week and they've hired Hildegarde Brasscoat to stay and keep watch. The thrree Megglethorps aren't really troublemakers, but they do...



  • Getting along with Your Friends

  • Shadows on the Wall

    The York Trilogy - 1

    IN THIS FIRST BOOK IN THE HAUNTING YORK TRILOGY, DAN TRIES TO SHED SOME LIGHT UPON THE SHADOWS ON THE WALL... Dan is confused but thrilled when his parents decide to take a family vacation to York, England, right in the middle of the school year. Bu...

  • Getting along with Your Teachers

  • Faces in the Water

    The York Trilogy - 2

    In this second book in the chilling York Trilogy, Dan struggles to bring the truth behind the faces in the Water to the surface.Back from York, England, and away from the ghosts and gypsies that haunted him there, Dan is prepared to spend a re...

  • All Because Im Older

  • Footprints at the Window

    The York Trilogy - 3

    In this conclusion to the York Trilogy, is Dan closer to answering his questions, and discovering who left the footprints at the window? Dan has had enough of the uncertainty surrounding his life these days. While he may not be able to change his fa...

  • Never Born a Hero

  • The Boy With the Helium Head

  • The Solomon System

  • The Mad Gasser of Bessledorf Street

    Bessledorf Hotel - 1

    Sam attempts to discover who is gassing the assembly-line workers at the parachute factory, the town's largest industry, and traces the culprit to the hotel his own family manages. Originally published as The Mad Gasser of Bessledorf Street. ...



  • A String of Chances

  • Night Cry

    There are all kinds of fearful night noises on the backwoods farm where Ellen lives, often by herself because her salesman father travels a lot. But more than anything, Ellen is terrified of their horse, Sleet, who had thrown her brother a year ago a...

  • Eddie, Incorporated

  • Dark of the Tunnel

  • The Agony of Alice

    Alice - 4

    Role Model Wanted Alice McKinley is about to become a teenager, but she doesn't know how. Her mother has been dead for years, and what do her father and her nineteen-year-old brother, Lester, know about being a teenage girl? If only she had a role ...

  • The Keeper

  • The Bodies in the Bessledorf Hotel

    Bessledorf Hotel - 2

    Hildegarde, the maid, was sobbing hysterically. She'd just discovered a dead body in the bathtub of Room 107. By the time everyone else rushed in to take a look, the body was gone! Almost immediately, there was a report of another dead body. Bernie...

  • Unexpected Pleasures

  • The Year of the Gopher

    Pressured by his family to get into Harvard, high school senior George Richard decides to forego college, and over the next year, while his friends are off at school, George takes on a series of ""gopher"" jobs and reexamines his life. Reprint. PW. ...

  • Beetles, Lightly Toasted

    Fifth-grader Andy Moller will do anything to win the Roger B. Sudermann essay contest so that he can win fifty dollars and get his picture in the local newspaper. His cousin and rival, Jack, feels exactly the same way. But how can Andy be inventive a...



  • One of the Third Grade Thonkers

    Jimmy Novak is excited about spring vacation. He and his club, the "Rough, Tough, and Terrible" Thonkers, are planning to turn the Novaks' garage into a clubhouse for the whole week. But everything changes when Jimmy's cousin David comes to stay afte...

  • Alice in Rapture, Sort of

    Alice - 5

    According to Pamela’s cousin in New Jersey, the worst thing that can happen to a girl is to start seventh grade without a boyfriend. So Alice is glad that she and Patrick are going together. But Patrick the boyfriend is a lot more complicated than ...

  • Bernie and the Bessledorf Ghost

    Bessledorf Hotel - 3

    What's bigger than a chair, but smaller than a house? Larger than a loaf of bread, but isn't an animal or a vegetable? What could this ghost want?! Bernie and his friends Georgene and Weasel are going crazy trying to figure out how to please th...

  • The Witch's Eye

    The Witch - 4

    Lynn Morley and her best friend, Mouse, thought their lives would be back to normal after Mrs. Tuggle's house burned down. But now Lynn's little brother, Stevie, is acting strange, and when Lynn confronts him in his room, she discovers that the witch...

  • Send No Blessings

    A teenager in a large family that lives in a trailer yearns for love, approval, an escape from endless chores, and a chance to make something of herself; when a good and decent man, seven years her senior, falls in love with her, she realizes marriag...

  • Maudie in the Middle

    Maudie, one of a large family growing up in Iowa in the early 1900s, seems to attract nothing but trouble when all she wants is to be noticed for herself; and when a crisis hits the family she finally accomplishes this in the best way possible....

  • Reluctantly Alice

    Alice - 6

    Alice McKinley comes home on the first day of junior high with a list of seven things about seventh grade that stink. Just about the only good thing she can think of is that she’s friends with everyone. Maybe that’s how to survive seventh grade -...

  • Witch Weed

    The Witch - 5

    """One of the most feared of a witch''s powers is that of the evil eye..."" After throwing Mrs. Tuggle''s evil glass eye into the creek, Lynn and her best friend, Mouse, anticipate a soothing summer. But when Lynn notices some strange-looking purple...

  • King of the Playground

    Kevin loves to go to the playground, but not when Sammy is there. And Sammy, who boasts that he is King of the Playground, is there most of the time. If he catches Kevin on the swings or the slide or the monkey bars, Sammy says, he will do awful, ter...

  • Shiloh

    Shiloh - 1

    There's nothing eleven-year-old Marty Preston enjoys more than spending time up in the hills behind his home near Friendly, West Virginia. But this time is different. This time Marty sees a young beagle on the road past the old Shiloh schoolhouse....



  • All but Alice

    Alice - 7

    There are, Alice decides, 272 horrible things left to happen to her in her life, based on the number of really horrible things that have happened already. And she's only just started seventh grade. Alice joins the All-Stars Fan Club and the earrin...

  • The Witch Returns

    The Witch - 6

    Certain that her sister, Judith, is under the influence of a witch--Mrs. Tuggle, their next-door neighbor--Lynn Morley records, with the help of her friend, all the evidence that points to Mrs. Tuggle's guilt. Reissue....

  • Josie's Troubles

    When best friends Josie Wells and Sarah Prescott accidentally break the Prescotts' piano bench, the two girls set out to earn money to pay for its repair, but soon their business and their friendship is in trouble. By the Newbery Medalist for Shi...

  • Boys Start the War

    Hatfields and Malloys - 1

    Just when the Hatford brothers were expecting three boys to move into the house across the river where their best friends, the Bensons, used to live, the Malloy girls arrive instead. Wally and his brothers decide to make Caroline and her sisters so m...

  • The Grand Escape

    Club of Mysteries - 1

    After years of being strictly house cats, Marco and Polo escape into the wonderful, but dangerous outside world and are sent on three challenging adventures by a group of cats known as the Club of Mysteries...

  • Alice in April

    Alice - 8

    In Alice in April, Aunt Sally reminds Alice that she will be turning thirteen soon (like anyone could forget such a momentous occasion) and that she will be the “woman of the house.” Alice dives into her new role by planning her father’s fiftie...

  • The Girls Get Even

    Hatfields and Malloys - 2

    As Halloween approaches, the three Malloy sisters find themselves continually trying to get even with the four Hatford brothers, who have been playing tricks on them since the Malloys moved from Ohio to West Virginia....

  • Face in the Bessledorf Funeral Parlor

    Bessledorf Hotel - 4

    Everyone in Middleburg is talking about the new drive-in viewing window at the Bessledorf Funeral Home -- at least until the vice president of the Higgins Roofing Company disappears along with the company's pension fund, leaving behind only a mysteri...

  • Alice In-Between

    Alice - 9

    Finally, Alice is thirteen. But being a teenager isn't always as fantastic as Alice dreamed it would be. A sophisticated night on the town with her brother, Lester, and an overnight train trip to Chicago with Elizabeth and Pamela are exciting, but th...

  • Boys Against Girls

    Hatfields and Malloys - 3

    The Hatford-Malloy feud continues in this fast-paced sequel to The Boys Start the War and The Girls Get Even (both Delacorte, 1993). Their egos still smarting from the humiliation they suffered on Halloween at the hands of their female neighbors, the...



  • The Fear Place

    For Doug's brother, Gordie, the ridge with its spectacular view is a magical, special place, but for Doug, it's The Fear Place. Two years ago, Doug hiked to the ridge during his family's annual camping trip, and he vowed never again to cross the narr...

  • Alice the Brave

    Alice - 10

    A month before eighth grade begins, Alice realizes she is going to have to face something she's been afraid of forever. Everybody, she knows, is afraid of something: elevators, dogs, planes, spiders . . . but her fear is worse. It's going to bring ab...

  • Being Danny's Dog

    Danny - 1

    When he moves to a new suburban development that has few other kids, ten-year-old T. J. starts following his brother Danny and keeping tabs on Danny's friendship with a troublesome boy. Reprint. C. "...

  • Ice

    Can the truth thaw Chrissa's frozen heart? It's been three years since Chrissa's father walked out of her life. Too angry even to speak to her mother, Chrissa is obsessed with finding the answers to her questions: Why did her father leave? Why does s...

  • Alice in Lace

    Alice - 11

    Alice and Patrick are getting married! Well, sort of. It’s all part for her eighth grade health class. But, this is a piece of wedding cake compared to some of her friends’ assignments where they have to role play being pregnant or being caught s...

  • The Bomb in the Bessledorf Bus Depot

    Bessledorf Hotel - 5

    Someone set off a bomb in the Bessledorf Bus Depot -- and all fingers are pointing at Bernie's sister Delores. And the next suspect in line is Joseph, their brother! It's up to Bernie and his friends Georgene and Weasel to help solve the case -- and ...

  • Shiloh Season

    Shiloh - 2

    SHILOH IS MARTY’S DOG NOW Marty Preston's troubles should be over. He's spent two weeks doing the hardest, meanest jobs Judd Travers could think of so he can call Judd's abused beagle, Shiloh, his own. And he's working for Doc Murphy to pay the bi...

  • Ducks Disappearing

    Counting and recounting a parade of baby ducks while eating lunch, Willie realizes that the ducks are disappearing one by one and tries to find help when he learns that they are falling into an open drainpipe....

  • The Healing of Texas Jake

    Club of Mysteries - 2

    The newest members of the feline Club of Mysteries, Marco and Polo, must prove their loyalty to their leader, Texas Jake, by venturing deep into the territory of the dreaded Steak Knife and the Over-the-Hill Gang to retrieve a medicinal plant. Reprin...

  • Outrageously Alice

    Alice - 12

    Eighth grade isn't all it's cracked up to be. Somehow, Alice thought eighth grade would be more exciting than it's turning out to be. It's not that things aren't changing all around her -- her older brother Lester's ex-girlfriend is getting marrie...

  • Saving Shiloh

    Shiloh - 3

    DOES EVERYONE DESERVE A SECOND CHANCE? Marty’s parents think so -- even Judd Travers, whose history of drinking and violence keeps Marty from completely trusting that his beloved dog, Shiloh, will always be safe from Judd. "Some people just s...

  • The Treasure of Bessledorf Hill

    Bessledorf Hotel - 6

    IS THERE PIRATE TREASURE BURIED IN MIDDLEBURG?

    According to local legend, Peg Leg the pirate once spent the night at the Bessledorf Hotel, and he may have left treasure buried in Middleburg. Now strange bobbing lig...

  • Achingly Alice

    Alice - 13

    Alice must choose between Patrick and Sam in this beloved series.How can someone be in love with two people at the same time? It doesn't make sense to Alice -- until Sam, her friend from Camera Club, starts to pay attention to her. Sam is quiet, gent...

  • Danny's Desert Rats

    Danny - 2

    Everything's Bonkers at Rosemary Acres There are lots of rules at Rosemary Acres, where T.R. and his brother Danny live with their mother, and the "no pets" rule could mean big trouble for their friend Paul. Paul had to give away his beloved cat, Bon...

  • The Girls' Revenge

    Hatfields and Malloys - 4

    This fourth book about the Hatford brothers and the Malloy sisters begins shortly before Christmas, three months after the Malloys move to Buckman, WV. As the holiday season approaches, the boys and girls continue to play pranks on one another and be...

  • Sang Spell

    trapped in a world that time forgot JOSH is hitchhiking his way from Massachusetts to Dallas and a new life he didn't ask for and doesn't want, when he is beaten, robbed, and abandoned beside a remote mountain road. He awakes in a strange, primiti...

  • Sweet Strawberries

    After a rough day trying to get to the market, a wife suggests to her husband that they buy some fresh strawberries for a treat, but when the man refuses, the wife becomes angry and the husband has to find a way to remedy the situation....

  • Alice on the Outside

    Alice - 14

    In this charming repackage from a beloved series, Alice doesn’t feel like fitting in.Alice McKinley likes her life, but she senses things are changing. She gets a little bored by her best friends Elizabeth’s and Pamela’s obsession with clothes ...

  • A Traitor Among the Boys

    Hatfields and Malloys - 5

    After all the trouble at Christmas, the Hatford boys make a New Year's resolution to treat the Malloy girls like sisters. But who says you can't play tricks on sisters? The girls will need to stay one step ahead of the boys, and are willing to pay bi...

  • Walker's Crossing

    When Ryan's brother Gil begins to spend most of his time with a militant anti-government and racist group, Ryan finds himself re-evaluating his family and friends, and his ambition to be a cowboy on the Wyoming ranch where he lives....

  • Jade Green

    Secrets Orphaned fifteen-year-old Judith Sparrow brings two secrets to her uncle's house in South Carolina: one, that her grief-stricken mother died in a madhouse, the other that she has disobeyed the only condition to living in her uncle's home --...

  • Peril in the Bessledorf Parachute Factory

    Bessledorf Hotel - 7

    Wanting his sister to find happiness in love, Bernie tries to find her a match in the charming new hotel guest, yet his focus on his sister causes near peril as he fails to notice the events taking place at a strange building nearby....

  • The Grooming of Alice

    Alice - 15

    Growing up -- and slimming down -- is the tricky proposition in this repackaged installment of the beloved Alice series.The summer before ninth grade is all about getting it right -- from head to toe. Alice and her friends want to start high school f...

  • A Spy Among the Girls

    Hatfields and Malloys - 6

    Valentine’s Day is coming up and love is in the air between Beth Malloy and Josh Hatford. When they are spotted holding hands, Josh tells his teasing brothers that he’s simply spying on the girls to see what they’re plotting next. When Caroline...

  • Carlotta's Kittens

    Club of Mysteries - 3

    A Blessed Event Carlotta's kittens have arrived -- five adorable pink-nosed, silk-eared bundles of fur. But what a responsibility for the five male cats in the Club of Mysteries! It's their job not only to protect the kittens from the dangers of t...

  • How I Came to Be a Writer

    Newbery Medalist Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's one hundred and more books are true to life, funny, and, most of all, well written -- you'd think that she doesn't have to work at writing at all. But that's not true. How I Came to Be a Writer is the story...

  • The Great Chicken Debacle

    May all your chickens come home to roost. If they had only known what trouble lay ahead, maybe, just maybe the Morgan children and their friend Deeter wouldn’t have agreed to mind No-Name, the world’s ugliest chicken. Maybe they could have avo...

  • I Can't Take You Anywhere!

    Here is the remarkable story of Amy Audrey Perkins. She was kind of a klutz. Things just seemed to happen wherever she went. But suddenly, something changed, and it seems that she is not the only klutz in the world....

  • Alice Alone

    Alice - 16

    Alice is starting high school, and everything is new. But it’s the new girl, Penny, who’s making ninth grade a real challenge for Alice. Penny is tiny and perky and a real flirt, and she seems to be focusing her attention on Patrick. Even worse, ...

  • Bernie Magruder and the Disappearing Bodies

    Bodies are coming and going from the Bessledorf Hotel -- dead and alive! Who wants to stay in a hotel full of zombies? Not too many -- and that's a big problem for Mr. Magruder, who's trying hard to manage his hotel! Bernie's determined to get to the...

  • The Boys Return

    Hatfields and Malloys - 7

    It’s spring break and the only assignment Wally Hatford and Caroline Malloy have is to do something that they have never done before. Wally’s sure that will be a cinch once he hears the great news about the mighty Benson brothers coming to stay f...

  • Simply Alice

    Alice - 17

    Life After Patrick It isn't Alice and Patrick anymore; it's simply Alice, and much to her surprise, Alice is finding that's okay. In fact, working on the school play and becoming increasingly involved in the newspaper have Alice so busy she doesn't ...

  • The Girls Take Over

    Hatfields and Malloys - 8

    The race is on! The Hatford boys and the Malloy girls are ready to outdo one another again. Eddie is the first girl to ever try out for the school baseball team. Now she and Jake are competing for the same position, while Caroline and Wally compete f...

  • Starting With Alice

    Alice - 1

    This is where it all started!Eight-year-old Alice McKinley wants pierced ears, really long hair, a pet, and, most of all, a mother. Oh, and some friends would be nice. As the new girl in third grade, Alice doesn't know a single person in Takoma Park,...

  • Blizzard's Wake

    A Twist of Fate Kate Sterling has lost four years of her life to grief and anger. Zeke Dexter has lost four years of his life as well -- in jail for the accident that killed Kate's mother. Just out of prison, Zeke wants to put the past behind him,...

  • Wrestle The Mountain


    Even at eleven, Jed knew he didn’t want to work in the coal mines like his father and the four generations before him. The mines provided a meager subsistence for the families of Tin Creek, West Virginia, but they also crippled and took live...

  • Bernie Magruder and the Bats in the Belfry

    Bessledorf Hotel - 8

    There are strange goings-on once again in Middleburg, and Bernie Magruder is deter- mined to get to the bottom of things, and maybe get his picture in the paper in the process. Someone has put up posters all over town warning townspeople that the dre...

  • Patiently Alice

    Alice - 18

    It's the summer after Alice's freshman year, she's survived her breakup with Patrick, and she and her friends are looking forward to their jobs as assistant camp counselors. Alice feels as if she's finally gotten a handle on life.But Alice soon learn...

  • Alice In Blunderland

    Alice - 2

    Can someone die of embarrassment? Everything seems to go wrong for Alice in fourth grade -- whether it's being seen in her underpants by Donald Sheavers from next door, or saying dumb things in class, or getting trapped in her own snow cave, or gett...

  • Boys In Control

    Hatfields and Malloys - 9

    Play ball! That's what the sixth-grade Buckman Badgers baseball team plans to do. Eddie Malloy and Jake Hatford hope to lead their team to the championship game the last Saturday in May. But thanks to a mix-up, Mrs. Hatford has to run a yard sale fo...

  • After

    “A revealing, amusing book.” -- San Jose Mercury News

    “Naylor’s easy writing style keeps the story fresh. . . . A story of a likable man and his family, all of whom dearly miss the person who held them together.” -- USA Today

  • The World of Alice

    Alice McKinley is the best friend every girl wishes she had.

    In fact Alice McKinley is the best friend every girl does have, in the award-winning popular series by Newbery Medalist Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Now Alice's ...

  • Including Alice

    Alice - 19

    Is Three a Crowd in the McKinley Household? The day that Alice has been hoping, wishing, and waiting for has finally arrived: Her father and Sylvia Summers are getting married! But Alice soon discovers that having the stepmother of her dreams doesn'...

  • Girls Rule!

    Hatfields and Malloys - 10

    Summer is around the corner, and the rivalry between the Malloy sisters and the Hatford brothers is heating up! The kids have two weeks to earn money for a fundraising contest sponsored by the local hospital. All those who collect twenty dollars or m...

  • Lovingly Alice

    Alice - 3

    In this repackaged novel in a beloved series, Alice realizes she has a lot to learn about life!Now that Alice is growing up, she is finding out answers to all sorts of interesting things -- but the questions keep on coming. For instance: How exactly ...

  • Alice on Her Way

    Alice - 20

    It’s the moment Alice has been looking forward to for years -- her sixteenth birthday is coming up, and that means getting her driver’s license, with the freedom that entails. And before that important milestone, there’s another delicious taste...

  • Anyone Can Eat Squid!

    Simply Sarah - 1

    Sarah Simpson is tired of being ordinary. The most unusual thing she has ever done is bite the dentist’s fingers. So what can she do to be special? Trade names with her best friend? Eat snails and squid? When Sarah learns that her favorite Chine...

  • Polo's Mother

    Club of Mysteries - 4

    Polohas always longed to find his mother. All he remembers is that she was soft and warm and smelled of milk. So when sassy, street-smart Geraldine returns, she isn't exactly the mother he expected. But Polo is still thrilled to have found her and is...

  • Boys Rock!

    Hatfields and Malloys

    Oh yeah, it's summer V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N! Wally Hatford dreams of long, lazy days far away from school and even farther away from Caroline Malloy. Dream on, Wally. As the best speller among the Hatford boys, Wally gets roped into helping his brothers ...

  • Roxie and the Hooligans

    What do you do if you're buried in an avalanche? * Roxie Warbler knows what to do in all kinds of situations. And she's learned it all from her favorite book: Lord Thistlebottom's Book of Pitfalls and How to Survive Them. But there's one situation R...

  • Cuckoo Feathers

    Simply Sarah - 2

    Sarah Simpson is her dad’s "Idea Girl," but right now she doesn’t have any good ideas. Nothing that will make people think she is someone special. Then she remembers something unusual going on outside her kitchen window. Two pigeons keep appearin...

  • Alice in the Know

    Alice - 21

    It's the summer before junior year, and Alice is looking forward to three months of excitement, passion, and drama. But what does she find? A summer working in a local department store, trying to stop shoplifters, and more "real life" problems than s...

  • Who Won the War?

    Hatfields and Malloys

    Who will win as the curtain closes on the war between the girls and the boys?Summer vacation is almost over and after one year in Buckman it looks like the Malloy girls will be going home to Ohio. The Hatford boys are relieved to finally be rid of Ed...

  • Patches and Scratches

    Simply Sarah - 3

    Sarah Simpson likes to get big ideas that will solve problems. But her best friend, Peter, presents her with a problem that seems impossible to solve. He wants a dog, but his granny Belle won’t let him have one. She says a dog would be too much wor...

  • Dangerously Alice

    Alice - 22

    Alice has always tried to be a decent person. She gets good grades, comes home on time, and has never really given her dad and her stepmom any reason to worry. But now that junior year of high school has started, Alice is a little sick of people assu...

  • Please Do Feed the Bears

    Percy's family is going on a picnic, and he can't imagine being at the beach without his favorite stuffed animals. There's his teddy, his grizzly, his old black bear, his panda...But the car is jam-packed, and his family warns him that there isn't ro...

  • Eating Enchiladas

    Simply Sarah - 4

    Sarah Simpson likes to think of ideas that are anything but ordinary. When her third-grade teacher asks each student to pick a country and give an oral report, Sarah wants her choice to be really special. Maybe she should talk about England, since En...

  • Almost Alice

    Alice - 23

    Is it possible to be too good a friend -- too understanding, too always there, too much like a doormat? Alice has always been a good friend to Pamela and Liz, a best friend to Pamela and Liz. But she's starting to wonder where that leaves her: What a...

  • Cricket Man

    Kenny Sykes is on a mission. He's determined to make his mark somehow in his new town and his new school. In the meantime, he's appointed himself the secret savior of the hundreds of crickets who seem bound to commit suicide by jumping into Kenny's p...

  • Faith, Hope, and Ivy June

    When push comes to shove, two Kentucky girls find strength in each other.Ivy June Mosely and Catherine Combs, two girls from different parts of Kentucky, are participating in the first seventh-grade student exchange program between their schools. The...

  • Intensely Alice

    Alice - 24

    In one single instant, everything can change.... Wouldn't it be great to go back to the time before Pamela got pregnant, before Patrick left for the University of Chicago, before anyone was making any big decisions about sex or college or life in ge...

  • Alice in Charge

    Alice - 25

    Senior year is a big deal, and it’s full of huge decisions and the very best kind of memory making -- but, for Alice McKinley, her last year of high school is being overshadowed by some very difficult situations. A sudden increase in vandalism at t...

  • Emily's Fortune

    Emily - 1

    Emily Wiggins is poor and timid, without a drop of self-confidence. When she is unexpectedly orphaned, she is left all alone except for her turtle, Rufus. What in blinkin' bloomers should Emily do? Emily's neighbors, Mrs. Ready, Mrs. Aim, and...

  • Incredibly Alice

    Alice - 26

    Get ready to start your own incredible, amazing life...right? Alice McKinley is standing on the edge of something new -- and half afraid she might fall off. Graduation is a big deal -- that gauntlet of growing up that requires everyone she's known...

  • Alice on Board

    Alice - 27

    In her last adventure before starting college, Alice takes to the open sea for the summer -- and nothing can stop the tides of change. Everything Alice has ever known is about to change -- from where she sleeps at night to how close her closest fr...

  • Emily and Jackson Hiding Out

    Emily - 2

    Emily Wiggins is thrilled that she and her orphan friend Jackson have escaped the clutches of the Child-Catching Services and Emily's villainous uncle Victor. Emily and Jackson are now living happily with her loving aunt Hilda. But just a mighty mout...

  • Now I'll Tell You Everything

    Alice - 28

    It’s Alice -- for the rest of her life! Yes, the very last Alice book, and it reveals every last bit you’d want to know about Alice -- including whether she spends the rest of her life with Patrick! Alice McKinley is going to college! And ever...

  • A Shiloh Christmas

    Shiloh - 4

    A rescued beagle and his boy owner seek love and understanding for their troubled small town in this holiday companion to the Newbery Medal-winning Shiloh, from Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. Christmas is coming and Marty and his rescued pup Shiloh are ...

  • Going Where It's Dark

    From the Newbery Award-winning author of Shiloh comes a middle-grade novel that combines adrenaline-fueled adventure with a poignant coming-of-age story. Buck Anderson’s life seems to be changing completely. His best friend, David, has moved awa...

  • Zack and the Turkey Attack!

    A boy must outsmart a tormenting turkey and solve the mystery surrounding some missing jewelry in this feel-good middle grade novel from the Newbery Award-winning author of the Shiloh series. Zack has a problem. A turkey problem. A TOM turkey to b...

  • Roxie and the Hooligans at Buzzard's Roost

    Roxie and the Hooligans are back and this time, Smoky Jo is swiped by a kidnapper who is as blunder-prone as Roxie, Uncle Dangerfoot, and Lord Thistlebottom are clever. Roxie is back! And that means the Hooligans are not far behind. The last time ...

  • Keeping a Christmas Secret

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    "Don't tell, don't tell," everyone keeps saying to Michael. And boy is it annoying. Of course he's not going to tell his dad what they got him for Christmas! Michael can keep a secret.When Michael does tell his father (though he's sure he was tricked...

Award-Winning Books by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Bernie Magruder and the Bats in the Belfry
2004 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Juvenile
Boys Start the War
1995 Nevada Young Readers' Award -- Young Readers
1996 West Virginia Children's Book Award -- Children's
The Grand Escape
1996 Golden Sower Award -- Grades 4-6
1996 Nutmeg Book Award -- Grades 4-6
Jade Green
2002 Heartland Award -- Young Adult
2002 South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award -- Junior Book
Night Cry
1985 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Juvenile
Saving Shiloh
1999 Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award -- Children's
2000 Colorado Children's Book Award -- Junior Novel
2000 Young Hoosier Book Award -- Grades 4-6
Shiloh
1992 Newbery Medal -- Children's
1993 Great Stone Face Book Award -- Grades 4-6
1993 Land of Enchantment Book Award -- Children/Young Adult
1993 Maine Student Book Award -- Grades 4-8
1993 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award -- Grades 6-8
1994 Bluebonnet Award -- Children's
1994 Delaware Diamonds Award -- Grades 3-5
1994 Grand Canyon Reader Award -- Intermediate
1994 Nene Award -- Children's Fiction
1994 Nevada Young Readers' Award -- Intermediate
1994 Nutmeg Book Award -- Grades 4-6
1994 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award -- Grades 4-8
1994 West Virginia Children's Book Award -- Children's
1994 Young Hoosier Book Award -- Grades 4-6
1994 Young Reader's Choice Award -- Grades 4-8
1995 Buckeye Children's Book Award -- Grades 3-5
Shiloh Season
1998 Colorado Children's Book Award -- Junior Novel
1998 Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award -- Children's
1998 North Carolina Children's Book Award -- Junior Book
1998 Volunteer State Book Award -- Grades 4-6
1999 Golden Sower Award -- Grades 4-6
1999 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award -- Grades 3-6


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has published 121 books.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Roxie and the Hooligans at Buzzard's Roost, was published in May 2018.

The first book by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Making It Happen, was published in January 1972.

Yes. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has 10 series.
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