C.S. Adler

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  • Bibliography:
    42 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1980
  • Latest Book:
    May 2016
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Pink Pig

Good-Bye Pink Pig (1985)
Help, Pink Pig (1990)

Book List in Order: 42 titles

  • In Our House Scott Is My Brother

    Distressed over her father's remarriage, Jodi finds her stepmother, Donna, who has a drinking problem, very different from her real mother but grows fond of Donna's troubled son, Scott, who shoplifts for fun...

  • Shelter on Blue Barns Road

  • Down by the River

  • The Cat That Was Left Behind

    Chad doesn't think his new foster family will be any better than the others, but after getting to know them during a summer at the Cape and after meeting a stray cat, he begins to change his mind....

  • Footsteps on the Stairs

    Fun loving Dodie is at a creepy beach house to get to know her neat little stepbrother and her cool, perfect stepsister, Anne. Anne is thirteen, like Dodie, but they couldn’t be more different. When both girls hear footsteps on the stairs at night,...

  • Some Other Summer

    A thirteen-year-old orphan is baffled and upset when her long-time friend Jeremy comes to spend the summer on her uncle's horse ranch and seems to ignore her. Continues the story of "The Magic of Glits."...

  • The Evidence That Wasn't There

  • Get Lost, Little Brother

  • Footsteps On Stairs



  • Shadows on Little Reef Bay

  • Roadside Valentine

  • Shell Lady's Daughter

    Fourteen-year-old Kelly doesn't understand why she has been shipped off to stay with her rigid grandparents in Florida. And why does her mother have to stay up north in the hospital and her grandmother refuses to answer her questions? Walking the hot...

  • Good-Bye Pink Pig

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    Pink Pig

    AMANDA COULD NEVER BE LONELY... AS LONG AS SHE HAD PINK PIG Pink Pig is Amanda’s best friend, and the only one who understands how it feels to be ten years old and lonely and scared. The little pig is made of rose quartz and is small enough to ...

  • With Westie and the Tin Man

  • Kiss the Clown

    Viki Hill, daughter of a missionary in Guatemala, finds her budding romance with Marc Bruggerman threatened by unresolved parental problems, Marc's self-centeredness, and her growing feelings for Marc's older brother, Joel, a sensitive, generous, dys...

  • Magic of the Glits

    "A coming-of-age novel with a refreshingly different twist. Heartwarming but never sentimentalized and thoroughly believable."-Cyrisse Jaffee, School Library Journal "Adler infuses her first book with sympathy and sharp insights, and she writes with...

  • Always and Forever Friends

  • Eddie's Blue-Winged Dragon

    Get Those Bullies! Darrin, the school bully, made Eddie's life miserable, and Eddie wished that, just once, he could get even. Eddie never thought it would be the blue-winged brass dragon he bought for his sister's birthday that would change his ...

  • The Silver Coach

    Twelve-year-old Chris Wallace's life is so troubled by her parents' separation and her growing jealousy of her younger sister that she knows the little silver-wire coach is something special and magical the first time she sees it....



  • Binding Ties

  • Help, Pink Pig

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    Pink Pig

    IF EVER AMANDA NEEDED PINK PIG, IT'S NOW! Pink Pig was lying on her side in a mess of pins and paper clips where Mother had left her. Amanda had sent the shiny rose quartz miniature to Mother at Christmas so she wouldn't be lonely. But now, living...

  • Ghost Brother

  • Split Sisters

    Very different but still very close to her fourteen-year-old sister, Jan, eleven-year-old Case is shocked and dismayed to learn of their "estranged parent's" plans to separate them and fights to keep the family together...

  • Mismatched Summer

    Serious, sensitive Meg is already worried about her mother, who has a terrible history with men and is now dating her boss, when mischief-making Micale arrives in Cape Cod and must share a room with Meg...

  • One Sister Too Many

  • The Lump in the Middle

    As the "lump in the middle" between her "perfect" older sister and cute younger sister, Kelsey feels out of place in her family until she meets Gabe, whose affection gives her the confidence she needs at home...

  • Daddy's Climbing Tree

  • Willie, the Frog Prince

  • Youn Hee & Me

    Caitlin's enthusiasm for adopting her adopted Korean brother Simon's older sister, Youn Hee, is tested by the other girl's feisty spirit and her desire to return to Korea with her brother. By the author of Riding Whiskey. ...



  • What's to Be Scared of, Suki?

    When Suki Price develops a crush on the new cute boy next door, her friend Allison suggests that Suki attract his attention by befriending his German Shepard, but when they all meet, Justin takes a liking to tall, blonde Allison rather than Suki....

  • Her Blue Straw Hat

  • More Than a Horse

    Twelve-year-old Leeann is happy about her family's move to an Arizona ranch because she can ride her horses whenever she wishes, but Amos, the head wrangler, forbids her to go near the horses, so Leeann must win the heart of the crotchety old man....

  • Courtyard Cat

    Having moved to a shabby city apartment, eleven-year-old Lindsay blames herself for the accident that caused her little brother's hospitalization, until a friendship with a homeless cat helps her to find a new outlook. Reprint....

  • Not Just a Summer Crush

    When twelve-year-old Hana discovers her favorite teacher, young Mr. Crane, sitting alone at the beach where her family vacations, she becomes close friends with him, but when her mother misinterprets their relationship, Hana is forced to defend herse...

  • Winning

    When Vicky makes the tennis team, she expects her problems to be solved, but she is soon confronted with a whole new set of problems when her vehement focus on tennis threatens her relationship with her best friend, and her new tennis partner, Barbar...

  • One Unhappy Horse

    Here is a moving intergenerational story, set in Arizona, about the friendship that develops between twelve-year-old Jan and Mattie, an elderly resident of a nearby assisted-living facility. Jan's beloved horse, Dove, needs surgery on one of his legs...

  • The No Place Cat

    Running away from her new stepfamily who doesn't seem to care about her, Tess begins walking to her mother's house and gets a companion in the form of a gray-striped cat who follows her along the desert road, but things don't go as planned when she a...

  • That Horse Whiskey!

    When Lainey fails to get the horse Dad promised her for her birthday, she takes on a job training a stubborn horse at a riding stable down the road. The horse, Whiskey, won’t take a rider for more than a quarter of a mile before turning back to his...

  • Other Girls Are So Pretty

    There on the dock three boys have carved tributes to Emily’s beautiful older sister. Both her girlfriends’ names have been linked to a boy’s there as well. Do you have to be pretty for a boy to like you? It seems so for the new boy, but Emily h...



  • Scarecrow on Horseback

    A humiliating experience keeps Mel from riding a horse, but she is happy to do scut work at the dude ranch where her mother works. Every horse she bonds with though is sold off by the arrogant head wrangler. Finally, she develops a special relationsh...

  • Saving Earth Planet

    The Directors for a planet in another galaxy of our universe are concerned that Earth is destroying itself. They decide to send someone to educate Earthlings on how to preserve their environment, stop fighting each other and start loving each other. ...

  • Tuna Fish Thanksgiving

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

C.S. Adler has published 42 books.

C.S. Adler does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Saving Earth Planet, was published in May 2016.

The first book by C.S. Adler, In Our House Scott Is My Brother, was published in June 1980.

Yes. C.S. Adler has 1 series.
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