Dyan Sheldon

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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1983
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

1 - Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (1999)
2 - My Perfect Life (2002)
3 - Confessions Of A Teenage Hollywood Star (Jun-2006)

Planet Janet

1 - Planet Janet (Feb-2003)
2 - Planet Janet in Orbit (Sep-2005)
3 - Deep and Meaningful Diaries from Planet Janet (Feb-2007)

Related Books

1 - Sophie Pitt-Turnbull Discovers America (Apr-2007)
2 - I Conquer Britain (Aug-2007)

Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • Victim of Love

    Linda Sutcliffe finds her devotion to her smug husband fraying, discovers his infidelity, throws him out and--vacillating between forgiveness and revenge--moves toward personal change and satisfaction...

  • Alison and the Prince

    Alison is not a wishy-washy sort of girl, on the contrary, she's a very contemporary young lady who plays the saxaphone and thinks it might be fun to drive a bus. So when the Prince at the ball turns out to be as handsome as any story-book prince -- ...

  • I Forgot

  • My Life as a Whale

    Stalked by women after appearing in an article on bachelors, Michael invents a wife but later tells people he and she have split, but when female body parts turn up in his apartment building, Michael becomes a murder suspect...

  • You Can Never Go Home Again

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    It's a romance made in purgatory. When Angel's parents split up, she's forced to move to a ramshackle cottage that's a total comedown from the upscale home she grew up in. Far from her popular crowd -- and her boyfriend -- Angel thinks life couldn't...

  • Harry on Vacation

    Harry, the cat-like alien, and Sara Jane Thomas, alias Chicken, return in a rib-tickling illustrated adventure in which a typical vacation leads to a battle with Chicken's older siblings that forces Harry to once again use his time-travel skills....

  • My Brother Is a Visitor from Another Planet

    Adam's big brother Keith is selfish and mean, but Adam has doubts about Keith's claims that he is an alien, but his doubts start to vanish when Keith shows Adam his strange powers and threatens Adam if he tells....

  • Harry and Chicken

  • Love, Your Bear Pete



  • Under the Moon

    After finding an arrowhead in her backyard, Jenny tries to imagine what the world was like long ago and dreams of a beautiful, unspoiled place in which she meets the native American who had once owned the arrowhead....

  • Harry the Explorer

  • Tall, Thin, And Blonde

    "Amy and I had always agreed on shallow, immature girls who never talked about anything but boys and clothes. Neither of us was ever going to be like that. Not even if we became stunningly gorgeous overnight. Not even if the cutest boy in the world a...

  • Save the Last Dance For Me

    Fed up with sharing her house with BJ, an irritating ghost who acts like her big brother, Angel digs into the past to discover the truth about BJ's death in 1959, and realizes that only she can help him find peace...

  • My Brother Is a Superhero

    It's bad enough that Adam's older brother, Keith, is an all-around athletic hero while Adam is always picked last for teams. But Keith also takes special pleasure in picking on Adam for being a weakling and a wimp. So when a group of bullies decides ...

  • The Whales' Song

    Lily''s grandmother tells her all about the mysterious whales out in the bay, and Lily longs to hear their magical song. Gary Blythe''s richly evocative artwork creates an incredibly atmospheric world for a timeless tale of wildlife and wonder.

    Thi...

  • The Boy of My Dreams

    Despite the serious misgivings of her oldest friend, Bone, who thinks that hormones have damaged her brain, Mike becomes convinced that Bill, a gorgeous college student, represents her romantic destiny....

  • Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

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    Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen - 1

    Mary Elizabeth Cep (or Lola, as she prefers to be called) longs to be in the spotlight. But when she moves to New Jersey with her family and becomes a student at Dellwood "Deadwood" High, Lola finds the role of resident drama queen already filled - b...

  • Clara and Buster Go Moondancing

    Preparing children for a lifetime of reading has never been more fun! Clara dreams of dancing like the elegant ballroom dancers on TV, so she and her friend Buster try the jitterbug, the cha-cha-cha and even jazz dancing. But after breaking a window,...

  • My Perfect Life

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    Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen - 2

    The cast of characters from Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen is back! With perfect parents, perfect friends, and perfect poise, it seems like Ella Gerard has it all. But when Ella's best friend (and resident drama queen), Lola, nominates Ella ...



  • Planet Janet

    Planet Janet - 1

    In the spirit of BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY - for the younger set - comes this hilarious chronicle of teenage angst from the author of CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE DRAMA QUEEN and MY PERFECT LIFE.

    With a Mad Cow for a mother, an eccentric psychotherapi...

  • What Mona Wants, Mona Gets

    One of an innovative new series of linked stories designed to build reader confidence. When a strange old lady offers her a necklace, Mona realizes that the magic item will grant her every wish. That night she dreams about all the things she has ever...

  • Planet Janet in Orbit

    Planet Janet - 2

    Janet's symbiotic relationship with her best friend is put to the test by the arrival of a controlling boyfriend in Dyan Sheldon's witty, diary-style sequel to PLANET JANET.

    Now that her mum, the Mad Cow, has split from her cad of a dad, Janet...

  • Confessions Of A Teenage Hollywood Star

    Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen - 3

    Dyan Sheldon's comically melodramatic heroine casts her best friend, Ella, in a supporting role as they conspire to land a part in a real-live movie that's filming tantalizingly close to home.

    After enduring years of angst, Lola is graduating ...

  • Deep and Meaningful Diaries from Planet Janet

    Planet Janet - 3

    From Dyan Sheldon, author of the best-selling Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, two hilarious diaries in one satisfying volume!

    "The fast-paced, clever writing will keep teens eagerly reading and sharing passages with each other to the en...

  • Sophie Pitt-Turnbull Discovers America

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    The summer her mother announces that they won't be taking their usual holiday in France, sixteen-year-old Sophie Pitt-Turnbull is aghast -- so much so that when Mummy's old art-school chum in New York suggests they trade daughters for the summer, Sop...

  • I Conquer Britain

    Related Books - 2

    A bohemian Brooklyn teen crosses the pond to visit an uptight English family in the hilarious companion to SOPHIE PITT-TURNBULL DISCOVERS AMERICA. The exchange of daughters that began in SOPHIE-PITT TURNBULL DISCOVERS AMERICA continues! Excited (n...

  • The Difficult Job of Keeping Time

    Trish is scared of her mother's rages while timid Kiki is scared of the teen gang who terrorize the inner-city estate where they live. In their different ways, they both feel helpless and alone. But then they meet the mysterious Betty Friedman, and o...

  • Drusilla and Her Brothers

    Move over, Sherlock Holmes! Drusilla is a quiet, thoughtful little girl who has a small toy hippopotamus and four older brothers. Her hippo (Mrs Mu) goes everywhere with Drusilla. Her brothers (Harlan, Kal, CJ and Joe) go nowhere with her. In fact, t...

  • My Worst Best Friend

    Gracie and Savannah are best friends -- and utterly unalike. Savannah is beautiful, outrageous, and irresistible to the opposite sex. Gracie is shy, smart, and would rather be studying lizards than meeting boys. For years they’ve made a surprisingl...



  • And Baby Makes Two

  • The Crazy Things Girls Do for Love

    Fashion-crazy Sicilee is a poster child for over-consumption. Her archrival, Maya, wears arty vintage clothes but hasn't a clue what's in the food she eats. So when drop-dead gorgeous new student Cody Lightfoot sets out to spread his eco-ways--and sp...

  • One or Two Things I Learned about Love

    The Love Diaries" is a wise, sometimes hilarious, always witty new novel from Dyan Sheldon, in which our heroine learns that 'love' is not always what it seems...Hildy D'Angelo is seventeen and this is the summer she falls in love for the first time....

  • Something Magic in the Night

    The cookies are baked, the shopping done. The tree is up, the balls are hung. There are cards, and sweets and baubles bright. Everything's ready for Christmas night. It's Christmas Eve! Follow Dottie-small as she discovers the magic of Christmas in t...

  • The Moon Dragons

    When a king discovers that there are still singing moon dragons high up on the mountainside, he offers a room full of gold to anyone who can bring one to him. The beautiful dancing dragons only reveal themselves to Alina, a young peasant girl, but...

  • The Truth about My Success

    What happens when a bratty teenage star and a hardworking waitress get a taste of each other’s worlds? Featuring the best-selling Dyan Sheldon at her snarky, entertaining best. Paloma Rose is sixteen and already a major TV star. She has money, f...

  • More Than One Way to Be a Girl

  • Sheldon & Smith: Witch Got on at Paddington Station

    When a witch boards the bus at Paddington Station, wonderful, magical things happen to the tired and grumpy riders....

  • Just Friends

    Can chasing the wrong girl lead down the right path? Witty as ever, best-selling author Dyan Sheldon maps the agonizing distance between “like” and “love.” Josh has never really thought twice about girls before. He’s usually too busy wat...

  • Hello, I Must Be Going



  • Away for the Weekend

  • Bursting Bubbles

  • Undercover Angel

  • Undercover Angel Strikes Again

  • Dreams of an Average Man

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  • Unicorn Dreams

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    From the author of The Whales' Song comes another tribute to the imagination of a child. When Dan's eye catches the flash of a unicorn's silvery tail, he gradually introduces his skeptical teacher and classmates to a new, almost magical land. Full co...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dyan Sheldon has published 45 books.

Dyan Sheldon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Undercover Angel Strikes Again, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Dyan Sheldon, Victim of Love, was published in April 1983.

Yes. Dyan Sheldon has 3 series.
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