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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2001
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Ashbury/Brookfield

Feeling Sorry For Celia (Mar-2001)
The Year of Secret Assignments (Feb-2004)
Murder of Bindy MacKenzie (Oct-2006)

The Colors of Madeleine

1 - A Corner of White (Apr-2013)
2 - The Cracks in the Kingdom (Mar-2014)
3 - A Tangle of Gold (Apr-2016)

Kingdoms and Empires

1 - The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone (Oct-2018)
2 - The Slightly Alarming Tale of the Whispering Wars (Jun-2021)
3 - The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst (Mar-2021)

Book List in Order: 21 titles



  • A #1 Bestseller in Australia and Book Sense 76 Pick

    Life is pretty complicated for Elizabeth Clarry. Her best friend Celia keeps disappearing, her absent father suddenly reappears, and her communication with her mother consists entirely of w...



  • Three girls. Three boys. Two rival schools. This could be messy. The Ashbury-Brookfield pen pal program is designed to bring together the two rival schools in a spirit of harmony and "the Joy of the Envelope." But when Cassie, Lydia, and Emily s...



  • Cassie, Em and Lydia are best friends in Year 10 at Ashbury High. Ashbury students claim that all the kids at downtown Brookfield High are drug-dealers and psychopaths. Their English teacher, encouraging the Adventure of the Scary and the New and the...



  • PERFECT. adj. 1. being entirely without fault or defect: flawless. 2. Bindy Mackenzie, student at Ashbury High. 3. Jaci Moriarty's murderously funny follow-up to THE YEAR OF SECRET ASSIGNMENTS.Bindy Mackenzie is the smartest girl at Ashbury High. She...



  • The Zing family lives in a world of misguided spell books, singular poetry, and state-of-the-art surveillance equipment. They use these things to protect the Zing Family Secret -- one so huge it draws the family to the garden shed for meetings every ...





  • This is the story of Amelia and Riley, bad kids from bad Brookfield High who have transferred to Ashbury High for their final year. They've been in love since they were fourteen, they go out dancing every night, and sleep through school all day. And ...



  • The first in a rousing, funny, genre-busting trilogy from bestseller Jaclyn Moriarty! This is a tale of missing persons. Madeleine and her mother have run away from their former life, under mysterious circumstances, and settled in a rainy corner o...






  • Princess Ko's been bluffing about the mysterious absence of her father, desperately trying to keep the government running on her own. But if she can't get him back in a matter of weeks, the consequence may be a devastating war. So under the guise of ...



  • Cello is in crisis. Princess Ko's deception of her people has emerged and the Kingdom is outraged; the Jagged Edge Elite have taken control, placing the Princess and two members of the Royal Youth Alliance under arrest and ordering their execution; t...



  • Bronte Mettlestone is ten years old when her parents are killed by pirates. This does not bother her particularly: her parents ran away to have adventures when she was a baby. She has been raised by her Aunt Isabelle, with assistance from the Butl...



  • The adult debut from bestselling, award-winning young adult author Jaclyn Moriarty -- a frequently hilarious, brilliantly observed novel in the spirit of Maria Semple, Rainbow Rowell, and Gail Honeyman -- that follows a single mother’s heartfelt se...



  • From the award-winning Jaclyn Moriarty comes a spellbinding tale of unlikely friendship, unexpected magic and competitive athletics. The town of Spindrift is frequented by all kinds of Shadow Mages and charlatans. It's also home to the Orph...



  • Esther is a middle child, in her own mind a pale reflection of siblings who are bright, shining stars. Her mother doesn't show the slightest bit of interest, no matter what Esther does. Still, she's content to go back to school, do her best, hang out...






  • A unique blend of humor, suspense, and magic, unfolding through the instantly recognizable rivalries, affections and foibles of her characters, from Jaclyn Moriarty During a sleepover, a letter comes to five children begging for the urgent assistance...







  • A Good Housekeeping Best Kids’ Book of 2023 Here are only a few of the wonderful, strange, and mysterious elements in this breathtaking visit to the Kingdoms and Empires: A very proper girl named Lillian Velvet, living a very lonely life wi...



  • Here are only a few of the wonderful, strange, and mysterious elements in this breathtaking visit to the Kingdoms and Empires: A very proper girl named Lillian Velvet, living a very lonely life with a nasty Grandmother.  A jar of coins, each wit...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jaclyn Moriarty has published 21 books.

Jaclyn Moriarty does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Secret of Lillian Velvet, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Jaclyn Moriarty, Feeling Sorry For Celia, was published in March 2001.

Yes. Jaclyn Moriarty has 3 series.