Doris Orgel

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1973
  • Latest Book:
    April 2018
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Multi-Author Series List

West Side Kids

2 - Don't Call Me Slob-O (May-1996)
3 - Friends to the Rescue (Oct-1996)

Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • Bartholomew, We Love You!

  • The Devil in Vienna

    Inge Dorenwald and Lieselotte Vessely have been best friends for most of their thirteen years. They share secrets, fears, hopes and even the same birthday. It never mattered that Inge was Jewish and that Lieselotte was the daughter of a Nazi SS offic...

  • Mulberry Music

  • Next-Door Neighbors

  • My War with Mrs. Galloway

  • Risking Love

  • Whiskers Once and Always

  • Midnight Soup and a Witch's Hat

  • Crack in the Heart



  • Starring Becky Suslow

  • Nobodies and Somebodies

  • Sarah's Room

  • The Mouse Who Wanted to Marry

    I want to marry, said a fine young mouse. So she set out to find a suitable mate--someone dependable and strong to keep her company. In this gentle, charming tale, perfect for reading together, the mouse learns that the best choice is right under her...

  • The Flower of Sheba

    Is King Solomon really the wisest man in the  world? The mighty Queen of Sheba visits the great King  to share--and test--his legendary wisdom.  Solomon's answers to Sheba's most challenging riddles  prove that, to the wise, even small creatu...

  • Ariadne, Awake!

    Ariadne, Minos's daughter and the Minotaur's half-sister, learns love's price after falling for her father's handsome prisoner, Theseus, in an evocative, beautifully illustrated retelling of an ancient myth....

  • Button Soup

    One old button and a pot of boiling water? What kind of soup is that? With Rag-Tag Meg as cook and Mandy as her trusted helper, it's a tasty concoction as well as a valuable lesson. A brand-new twist on a well-loved old folk take--perfect for...

  • The Spaghetti Party

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  • Two Crows Counting

    Every book in the Bank Street Ready-to-Read series is targeted at the individual abilities of children ages three to eight as they develop reading skills.

    Level 1 (PRE-K-GRADE 1) books are perfect for reading aloud with children who are gettin...

  • The Princess and the God

    A modern retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche, narrated by Psyche herself, describes how the jealousy of her older sisters and of the goddess Venus drive her to marry a mysterious "dragon-bridegroom" and how true love conquers pain and separatio...



  • Don't Call Me Slob-O

    West Side Kids - 2

    Having been the center for jokes by all due to his size, Shrimp is initially relieved when Slobodan moves into town and becomes the new joke, until he comes to realize that Slobodan does not deserve the abuse either and they begin to form a special f...

  • Friends to the Rescue

    West Side Kids - 3

  • We Goddesses: Athena, Aphrodite, Hera

    The classic Greek myths, retold from the female point of view of, specifically, the Goddesses Athena, Aphrodite and Hera, allows a different perspective on familiar events like the Trojan War. 10,000 first printing....

  • The Lion and the Mouse

  • My Mothers' Daughter

    Leto, Artemis, Demeter, Persephone: Four goddesses, two mothers and their daughters. Here are their stories, told in the first person with grace and eloquence by Doris Orgel, who has often dealt with classical subjects in her many distinctive books f...

  • The Cat's Tale

    WHY ARE THE YEARS IN THE CHINESE CALENDAR NAMED AFTER ANIMALS?

     A young girl and her grandmother learn that being far apart in years doesn’t mean they have nothing in common. Mao the cat and her master, Willow, are less than thrilled when...

  • Next Time I Will

    In attempting to follow his mother's instructions, a good-hearted boy always does the right thing at the wrong time.EDITORIAL REVIEW:Silly Bill tries his best to follow his mother's advice, but the good-hearted boy's literal interpretations make for ...

  • Doctor All-Knowing

    How clever are you? And how sharp-sighted? Are you as clever as Doctor All-Knowing -- keen to change his sad life (and feed his poor daughter, Maggie)? Are you, like Doctor All-Knowing, sharp-eyed enough to search out the thieves who've bee...

  • Mouse That Wanted to Marry

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    "I want to marry," said a fine young mouse. So she set out to find a suitable mate-someone dependable and strong to keep her company. In this gentle, charming tale, perfect for reading together, the mouse learns that the best choice is right under he...

Award-Winning Books by Doris Orgel

The Devil in Vienna
1978 Sydney Taylor Book Award -- Children's Literature


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Doris Orgel has published 28 books.

Doris Orgel does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Doctor All-Knowing, was published in April 2018.

The first book by Doris Orgel, Bartholomew, We Love You!, was published in January 1973.

No. Doris Orgel does not write books in series.
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