Caroline B. Cooney

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  • Bibliography:
    91 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1979
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Dance

1 - Saturday Night (Aug-1986)
2 - Last Dance (Sep-1987)
3 - New Year's Eve (Jan-1988)
4 - Summer Nights (Aug-1988)

Horror High

Toxic Beauty (Apr-2009)

Janie

1 - The Face on the Milk Carton (Feb-1990)
2 - Whatever Happened to Janie? (May-1993)
3 - The Voice on the Radio (Oct-1996)
4 - What Janie Found (Jan-2000)
5 - Janie Face to Face (Jan-2013)

Losing Christina

1 - The Fog (1989)
2 - The Snow (Feb-1990)
3 - The Fire (May-1990)

The Time Travelers

1 - Both Sides of Time (Jan-1997)
2 - Out of Time (Dec-1996)
3 - Prisoner of Time (Apr-1998)
4 - For All Time (Oct-2001)

The Vampire's Promise

1 - The Cheerleader // Deadly Offer (Dec-1991)
2 - The Return of the Vampire // Evil Returns (Feb-1992)
3 - The Vampire' s Promise // Fatal Bargain (Feb-1993)

Multi-Author Series List

Cheerleaders

1 - Trying Out (Jan-1985)
3 - Rumors (Mar-1985)
5 - All the Way (May-1985)
30 - Saying Yes (Jun-1987)

Chrystal Falls

3 - Bad and the Beautiful (Oct-1985)
4 - The Morning After (Nov-1985)

Follow Your Heart Romance

3 - A Stage Set for Love (Aug-1983)
4 - Sun, Sea and Boys (Feb-1984)
7 - Racing to Love (Jan-1985)
9 - Suntanned Days (Aug-1985)

Wildfire Romance

14 - An April Love Story (Jun-1981)
27 - Nancy & Nick (Mar-1982)
31 - He Loves Me Not (Jan-1983)
47 - Holly in Love (Jun-1983)
58 - Nice Girls Don't (Aug-1984)

Book List in Order: 91 titles

  • Safe As the Grave

  • Rear-View Mirror

    A warm October day, a car-and an excuse to drive. That ranks right up there with bread, wine and thou, thought Susan Seton as she sat in her snug little diesel automobile, a half-dozen doughnut holes in a white paper bag beside her and the fuel tank ...

  • The Paper Caper

  • An April Love Story

    Wildfire Romance - 14

    “Today,” My father announced, “I bought a farm in North Carolina. We’re leaving the city, Marnie. We’re going back to the land.” Back to the land? Leaving the city? Marnie Macdonald can’t believe her ears, her parents must be kidding. ...

  • Nancy & Nick

    Wildfire Romance - 27

    Whenever I see a good-looking boy, I am impressed first and embarrassed second. I am never quite sure what embarrasses me, but I start blushing as if I had written about him in my diary and he had just read it... Nancy has lots of dream dates - bu...

  • The Personal Touch

    First Love UK - 25
    Silhouette First Love - 25

    Was Tim really an acronym for Terrible Infuriating Monster? Sunny was convinced that it was. Every single summer of her sixteen years Tim and his rich, snobbish parents returned to Sea's Edge to make her life miserable. Now here he was again! It w...

  • He Loves Me Not

    Wildfire Romance - 31

    Alison has never had a boyfriend - or even a date! But Alison's friends think she leads a glamorous life. She plays piano with a band and spends her weekends performing at parties and dances, staying out late, wearing fancy clothes. But Alison's ...

  • Sand Trap

    A FATAL MISTAKE Tonight Janney Fraser is turning off the highway to drive home on the winding back roads, her mind filled with thoughts of leaving Holly Oaks, North Carolina…of finding help for Ross, her crippled stepson…of meeting a man to re...

  • Holly in Love

    Wildfire Romance - 47

    If there's one thing Holly can't stand it's cold weather. And, it seems, the only other person in her whole town who feels the same way is Jamie. Jamie is the first boy Holly has ever really liked, but her friends accuse her of 'robbing the cradle...



  • A Stage Set for Love

    Follow Your Heart Romance - 3

  • Sun, Sea and Boys

    Follow Your Heart Romance - 4

    Find your own boyfriends, your own adventures, your own romance- it s up to you. Every few pages, you can make a new romance happen- go back to the beginning and follow the directions til you find just the romance you want. You re looking forward to ...

  • Nice Girls Don't

    Wildfire Romance - 58

    Tory knew it wasn't nice, but she felt it was right. Tory Travis just wanted to play ball. But little things started to get to her. The boys' team went by in a bus while Tory and her teammates were squished into a station wagon. The boys were budg...

  • I'm Not Your Other Half

    A high school junior finds the perfect boyfriend . . . but is he too good to be true? Chapman High juniors Fraser and Annie have been best friends forever. They're each missing only one critical thing: the right boyfriend. Then Annie meets Price. ...

  • Racing to Love

    Follow Your Heart Romance - 7

  • Trying Out

    Cheerleaders - 1

    ONLY ONE THING MATTERED...THE SQUAD. To all of them, being a cheerleader means being the most popular, the most desirable, the most envied ... and even the most hated. They will be stars, dazzling and exciting. Mary Ellen, Pres, Nancy, Olivia, Walt, ...

  • Rumors

    Cheerleaders - 3

    SOMETIMES LIES ARE EASIER TO BELIEVE. Mary Ellen has never had spending money, so why are her clothes suddenly so expensive? Angie's never been a great student, so why is she on the honor roll? Vicious stories are flying around the school, making Na...

  • All the Way

    Cheerleaders - 5

    SOMETIMES BEING A CHEERLEADER CAN BREAK YOUR HEART… Nancy chose the worst time to fall in love. It was never a good idea for a Tarenton High cheerleader to date a player from an opposing team. But when the conflict between Tarenton and its archriv...

  • Suntanned Days

    Follow Your Heart Romance - 9

  • Bad and the Beautiful

    Chrystal Falls - 3



  • The Morning After

    Chrystal Falls - 4

  • Don't Blame the Music

    Seventeen-year-old Susan looks forward eagerly to her senior year in high school but finds her comfortable assumptions and optimistic expectations of life and people shattered by the return home of her older sister, a failed rock singer with a bitter...

  • Saturday Night

    Dance - 1

    This was no ordinary Saturday night. Five girls. They couldn't have been more different, but they shared a common dream -- a perfect Saturday night at the Autumn Leaves Dance. For each of them, the night meant something different: It was a chanc...

  • Saying Yes

    Cheerleaders - 30

    MARY ELLEN, MARRY ME? Former head cheerleader Mary Ellen Kirkwood is back in town and she's in love. But is Pres just kidding when he asks her to marry him? No one knows. But romance is in the air. Olivia can't even think about cheerleading, and for...

  • The Rah Rah Girl

    What’s wrong with being a cheerleader? Marcy’s family is disgusted when she decides that more than anything, she wants to be a cheerleader. And the harder Marcy tries to make the squad, the less understanding her family is. Anybody can be a ch...

  • Last Dance

    Dance - 2

    Happiness and heartbreak are in the air. Eight months have passed since that special, memorable SATURDAY NIGHT. Now it is time for the last dance of the year: Anne, wiser and more beautiful than ever, just wants to survive it. Beth Rose, mor...

  • Among Friends

    THE AWESOME THREESOME Together-forever friends -- that's how everyone had always thought of them, and how they'd thought of themselves. Until now. Jennie: The powerful center of the trio, Jennie strives for perfection. But her quest to be the bes...

  • New Year's Eve

    Dance - 3

    What better night to take a chance at love? For the girls of SATURDAY NIGHT and LAST DANCE, it is a night of new hopes and beautiful dresses and bright dreams. Old loves will be remembered -- or forgotten. Plans will be made that will change their...

  • Camp Girl-Meets-Boy

    Cabins nestled on rolling hills, a clean lakefront and happy campers. Camp Menunkechogue looks like a picture postcard. For 16-year-old Marissa, crummy old school is nothing but a void between summers. Camp is what she lives for and now finally she i...

  • Summer Nights

    Dance - 4

    Does love mean never having to say good-bye? They're having one last perfect party, before they all go out into the world. Beautiful Ann to her glamorous new job. Kip, determined to have a whole new image in exciting New York City. Beth, feeling l...



  • Camp Reunion

  • The Fog

    Losing Christina - 1

    Christina and Anya are delighted by an invitation to board with the new school principal and his wife, but soon it is clear that they are agents of unspeakable evil who are bent on destroying the girls they harbor...

  • Summer Love

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Camp Menunkechogue is a summer paradise. Sixteen-year-old Marissa has been longing for this moment - a counsellor at last! She is soon joined by the feather-brained Vi who is out to catch a boyfriend at the legendary Camp Men. But men are strictly ou...

  • The Face on the Milk Carton

    Janie - 1

    No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails, wearing a dress with a narrow white collar--a thre...

  • The Snow

    Losing Christina - 2

    Who's next? Christina has survived her first semester away from home, overcoming more than just homesickness. She has survived the Evil. Until now. Now winter has arrived, with screaming winds and blinding snow. The cruel Shevvingtons, with who...

  • The Fire

    Losing Christina - 3

    A Maine teenager fights to escape the clutches of her evil guardians once and for all in the thrilling conclusion of this spooky trilogy. In just eighteen days the semester will be over, freeing Christina and her friends from the terrible Schoone...

  • Family Reunion

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    When the invitation to the Preffyn family reunion arrives interrupting a perfectly decent summer vacation, 15-year-old Shelley Wollcott is anything but enthusiastic. It’s not that Shelley has anything against her relatives, she just can’t stand i...

  • The Party's Over

    As her friends go off to college and she opts for work, Hallie Revness soon discovers that her role as prom queen, cheerleading captain, and girlfriend of popular Jaz will do little to help her in the real world. Hallie Revness feels like she own...

  • Twenty Pageants Later

    As the younger and plainer sister of a frequent beauty-contest winner, fourteen-year-old Scottie Anne has always had mixed feelings about such competitions, especially when she finds herself a reluctant contestant. Scottie-Anne's older sister is a...

  • The Cheerleader // Deadly Offer

    The Vampire's Promise - 1

    When you make a deal with a vampire, there's no chance to change your mind. Or is there? Althea is a nobody who wants to be somebody. She wants to be noticed, to have friends, to be part of the popular crowd. Then she meets the vampire who lives i...



  • The Return of the Vampire // Evil Returns

    The Vampire's Promise - 2

    Devnee just wants to be beautiful -- but is she willing to pay the price? Devnee is so excited about having a bedroom in an attic tower. A tower sounds so romantic, like living in a private castle. Devnee hopes her new room will make her romantic ...

  • Flight 116 Is Down

    Plane Crash! Saturday, 5:10 P.M. Sixteen-year-old Heidi Landseth is alone in her isolated home near York City. 5:15 P.M. Across town, seventeen-year-old Patrick Farquhar, a volunteer rescue worker, longs to prove himself in a real emergency. ...

  • Operation: Homefront

    When high school sophomore Laura Herrick's mother goes off to Saudi Arabia with the National Guard, life on the homefront changes for Laura, her father and two brothers. Nothing gets done as their days are spent glued to the TV screen waiting for new...

  • The Vampire' s Promise // Fatal Bargain

    The Vampire's Promise - 3

    Six teens spending the night in a haunted house must make a chilling choice in order to gain their freedom from the vampire imprisoning them--choose the one among them who will be the vampire's next victim. When you make a deal with a vampire, the...

  • Whatever Happened to Janie?

    Janie - 2

    How could it possibly be true? But it is true. As Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl on the milk carton, she was overcome with shock. She recognized that little girl-- it was she.... With the mystery of her kidnapping no...

  • Forbidden

    Annabel Jayquith and Daniel Ransom meet at a party. They fall instantly in love, unaware that their lives are inextricably bound together by the crime that shocked a nation. Daniel is the high-profile son of a slain US senator who had presidential...

  • Emergency Room

    Every heartbeat matters. 6:00 P.M. Naive volunteers Diana and Seth arrive at the emergency room, eager for the chance to save lives: 6:38 P.M. Eighteen-year-old Jersey, the victim of a drug battle, is carried in with a gunshot wound. 7:16 P...

  • Unforgettable

    Losing her entire memory after witnessing a terrible crime, Hope cannot accept her luxurious life or the man who claims to be her father and finds solace in Mitch McKenna, a college student who may solve her mystery. After her previous boring, sm...

  • Driver's Ed

    The universal experience for most high school students is learning to drive and getting their driver’s license. Add breathlessly plotted romance and an accident and you have a poignant and realistic novel. Remy Martin prays to the God of Driver...

  • Night School

    A mysterious teacher casts a spell over his class and assigns dark, evil homework in a class that Mariah wishes she had never signed up for--a class where she is trapped and can never escape. Mariah's not sure why she's signed up for the mysterio...



  • Flash Fire

    Will the California wildfires bring Danna the summer excitement she craves? In the Southern California suburb of Pinch Canyon, among the swimming pools and tennis courts, fifteen-year-old Danna Press finds her summer life so dull she longs for som...

  • Freeze Tag

    Jealousy turns deadly in this chilling story from the author of Whatever Happened to Janie? As kids, Meghan, West, and Lannie played freeze tagbut with Lannie, nothing was normal. With one touch, she could turn anyone as cold as ice, a human st...

  • The Voice on the Radio

    Janie - 3

    The kidnapping is long past. Janie Johnson can never change what happened to her or to the families that love her. But finally life seems to be settling down for the Springs and the Johnsons.The worst part of this new life for Janie is that Reeve Shi...

  • Out of Time

    The Time Travelers - 2

    Annie Lockwood exists; everyone admits it. Everyone has seen her. But only Strat insists that Miss Lockwood traveled one hundred years back in time to be with them in 1895. Now Strat is paying an enormous price: His father has declared him insane and...

  • Both Sides of Time

    The Time Travelers - 1

    Imagine changing centuries -- and making things worse, not better, on both sides of time. Imagine being involved in two love triangles in two different centuries. Imagine discovering that, no matter which direction you travel in time, you must aban...

  • Perfume

    Despite her aversion to its horrendous name and scent, Dove feels compelled to purchase a bottle of Venom, and soon she realizes that the perfume has released her evil unborn twin into the world. Venom. Dove doesn't want to buy the perfume. Sh...

  • The Stranger

    From the first moment she sees him in class, Nicoletta is drawn to Jethro, fascinated by his dark, mysterious face. She is attracted yet repelled, interested but afraid. Nicoletta becomes obsessed, unable to think of any-thing but this strange boy. ...

  • Twins

    Two girls... one life. Mary Lee and Madrigal are identical twins, exactly alike in every way. Mirror images. Two halves of one whole. Or so it appears. Until they are separated, leaving Mary Lee lost and alone. And Madrigal more beautiful...

  • Wanted!

    It all started with a phone call. In a tense voice, Alice's very rational father suggests that she drive his precious Corvette and meet him. But Alice' doesn't have a driver's license. "It doesn't matter!" he yells. Yet he never shows up. Never ca...

  • The Terrorist

    When terrorist violence in London tears an American family apart, sixteen-year-old Laura becomes obsessed with finding her brother's killer. Laura and Billy Williams are two ordinary American expat kids living with their parents in England. Then, ...

  • What Child Is This?

    Katie, a foster child, wants only one thing for Christmas: a family. However, there are no wise men coming from the East or shepherds watching in the fields. There’s also a teenager named Matt, who believes in doing a good deed. And another teenage...

  • Prisoner of Time

    The Time Travelers - 3

    Tod Lockwood has never wanted to be anyone's knight in shining armor. In fact, he wants to avoid having anything to do with girls, at least for the present. But that's before Devonny Stratton steps into his life out of the nineteenth century. As for...

  • Hush Little Baby

    My ex-stepmother just handed me a baby, and she’s driving away.

    When Kit Innes’s estranged ex-stepmother, Dusty, unexpectedly drives up and pushes a large cloth-covered parcel into her stepdaughter’s arms, Kit doesn’t know ...

  • Burning Up

    This bestselling author explores the destructive nature of hatred, the crime of indifference, and the power of accepting love and responsibility.

    Fifteen-year-old Macey Clare has always loved her quiet, beautiful Connecticut hometown. It's the...

  • Tune in Anytime

    Intrigue. Suspense. Romance. Evil Schemers, Innocent Victims, and True Love. Is it a TV soap opera? Not exactly. It's what's happening to sixteen-year-old Sophie Olivette. Her father has announced that he wants out of his marriage because he's found...

  • What Janie Found

    Janie - 4

    Janie's two families appear to have made peace. Life seems almost normal. Janie has even decided to speak to her former boyfriend, Reeve, again. But then Janie's Connecticut father suffers a sudden stroke, and this tragedy leaves her mother reeling. ...

  • Mummy

    Emlyn's plan to take part in a prank one evening turns sour when she realizes that she must not only protect the mummy she helped steal but help save herself from those she thought were her friends. Original....

  • The Ransom of Mercy Carter

    Deerfield, Massachusetts is one of the most remote, and therefore dangerous, settlements in the English colonies. In 1704 an Indian tribe attacks the town, and Mercy Carter becomes separated from the rest of her family, some of whom do not survive. M...

  • Fatality

    It's been four years since Rose spent the weekend at Angelica's beautiful summer home and things went terribly wrong, but now that the police have reopened the murder case, Rose must relive that weekend all over again. Rose was thrilled when Angel...

  • For All Time

    The Time Travelers - 4

    Annie Lockwood is testing Time. She’s traveled through it before, but always at Time’s bidding. Now she is asking Time to take her to the year 1899, when Strat is in Cairo. But Time doesn’t like to be tested. In what feels like a cruel joke, An...

  • The Girl Who Invented Romance

    How can a girl have fun with a game if she's only watching from the sidelines? That's what sixteen-year-old Kelly Williams wonders when her best friend, Faith, complains that it's time to stop pretending and find real romance. As Kelly sees her frien...

  • Code Orange

    Walking around New York City was what Mitty Blake did best. He loved the city, and even after 9/11, he always felt safe. Mitty was a carefree guy -- he didn't worry about terrorists or blackouts or grades or anything, which is why he was late getting...

  • Hit the Road

    Brit has had her driver's license only 11 days when her parents drop her off to stay at her grandmother's house for two weeks while they go on vacation. Little do they know Brit is headed for a three-state road trip with Nannie to pick up her college...

  • Enter Three Witches

    Lady Mary is a ward of Lord and Lady Macbeth whose life is forever changed when her father, Lord Cawdor, betrays the Scottish king -- and is hanged as a traitor. In an instant, Mary has lost both her father and future. Now she's trapped in a castle w...

  • Diamonds in the Shadow

    THE FINCH FAMILY did not know that five refugees landed from Africa on the day they went to the airport to welcome the family sponsored by their church. The Finch family only knew about the four refugees they were meeting - Andre, Celestine, Mattu, a...

  • A Friend at Midnight

    Lily has settled into life in Connecticut after her parent's divorce but it's been harder on her eight-year-old brother Michael. After their mother remarries, her brother chooses to go live with his father in Washington, D.C., until the day he calls ...

  • Goddess of Yesterday

    Anaxandra is taken from her birth island at age 6 by King Nicander to be a companion to his crippled daughter, Princess Callisto. Six years later, her new island is sacked by pirates and she is the sole survivor. Alone with only her Medusa figurine, ...

  • Toxic Beauty

    Horror High

    Bethany is tired of feeling plain and ordinary. Tired of being ignored. If only she was beautiful then everyone would want to be her friend, everyone would take notice - even Ryan. When a mysterious man offers to make all of Bethany's wildest dreams ...

  • If the Witness Lied

    Choices do matter and forgiveness is possible. Jack Fountain knows that what's happened to his family sounds like the most horrible soap opera anyone could ever write. But it happened--to Jack; his parents; his sisters, Smithy and Madison. And to ...

  • They Never Came Back

    In a busy school cafeteria, a teenage girl is confronted by a classmate who questions her identity. He explains to the students who have crowded around that the girl bears an uncanny resemblance to his cousin, who was taken away by social services fi...

  • Three Black Swans

    Missy and her cousin Claire are best friends who finish each other's sentences and practically read each other's minds. It's an eerie connection -- so eerie that Missy has questions she wants to put to her parents. But she's afraid to ask. So when Mi...

  • The Lost Songs

    The day Lutie Painter takes the city bus north instead of the school bus west, cutting class for the first time ever, her aunt and uncle have no idea what she is up to. They cannot prevent her from riding into danger. That same morning, Lutie's pa...

  • What Janie Saw

    This suspenseful ebook original features the main characters from Caroline B. Cooney's hugely successful Janie series, which began with The Face on the Milk Carton. Readers will be enthralled to discover what still matters to Janie, who was kidnapped...

  • The Time Travelers: Volume One

    Imagine changing centuries -- and making things worse, not better, on both sides of time. When 15-year-old Annie Lockwood travels back 100 years and lands in 1895, she at last finds romance. But she is a trespasser in time. Will she choose to stay...

  • The Time Travelers: Volume Two

    Imagine changing centuries -- and making things worse, not better, on both sides of time. When 15-year-old Annie Lockwood travels back 100 years and lands in 1895, she at last finds romance. But she is a trespasser in time. Will she choose to stay...

  • Janie Face to Face

    Janie - 5

    In this riveting and emotional conclusion to the thriller-romance Janie series, that started with "The Face on the Milk Carton, " all will be revealed as readers find out if Janie and Reeve's love has endured, and whether or not the person who brough...

  • No Such Person

    From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller "The Face on the Milk Carton" comes a riveting thriller about two sisters -- one accused of murder, the other desperate to prove her sister’s innocence ... even as she begins to doubt it herself. ...

  • I'm Going to Give You a Bear Hug!

    I'm going to give you a bear hug. A show you how much I care hug. A good night Sleep tight Way beyond compare hug. I’m Going to Give You a Bear Hug!, written by bestselling author Caroline B. Cooney, is a playful and comforting bedtime book ...

  • Before She Was Helen

    Her life didn't turn out the way she expected―so she made herself a new one When Clemmie goes next door to check on her difficult and unlikeable neighbor Dom, he isn't there. But something else is. Something stunning, beautiful and inexp...

  • I'm Going to Give You a Polar Bear Hug!

    Let’s get ready to snuggle! This highly engaging sequel to the bestselling and beloved I’m Going to Give You a Bear Hug imagines all the cozy, warm hugs little ones love to receive on cold, blustery days. From acclaimed author and illustrator...

  • The Grandmother Plot

    An unforgettable new mystery from Caroline B. Cooney, international bestselling author of The Face on the Milk Carton"Caroline B. Cooney is a master of taking a small, common moment -- seeing a face on a milk carton, posting a harmless photo -- and t...

  • Wrong Good Deed

    She thought she had left that life behind forever. She was wrong.1964: Christaphine is twenty years old, newly married, and determined to make a home and a life for her and her husband, Tommy. But when Christaphine discovers Tommy and his friends on ...

Award-Winning Books by Caroline B. Cooney

Driver's Ed
1997 Garden State Teen Book Award -- Fiction (Grades 9-12)
1997 Volunteer State Book Award -- Young Adult
1997 Young Reader's Choice Award -- Grades 9-12
1998 Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award -- Grades 9-12
The Face on the Milk Carton
1993 Iowa Teen Award -- Young Adult
1994 Volunteer State Book Award -- Young Adult
1996 Colorado Blue Spruce Award -- Young Adult
Flight 116 Is Down
1994 Golden Sower Award -- Young Adult
1995 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award -- Grades 4-8
1995 Virginia Readers Choice Award -- Middle School
Goddess of Yesterday
2003 Children's Book Committee Award -- Fiction
Whatever Happened to Janie?
1996 Iowa Teen Award -- Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Caroline B. Cooney has published 91 books.

Caroline B. Cooney does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Wrong Good Deed, was published in July 2022.

The first book by Caroline B. Cooney, Safe As the Grave, was published in July 1979.

Yes. Caroline B. Cooney has 6 series.
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