James Lincoln Collier

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1972
  • Latest Book:
    August 2025
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Multi-Author Series List

Jamestown's American Portraits

Corn Raid: A Story of the Jamestown Settlement (Jan-2000)
The Worst of Times: A Story of the Great Depression (Jan-2000)

Lost Treasures

3 - The Teddy Bear Habit or How I Became a Winner (Feb-2013)
6 - Rich and Famous (Aug-1975)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • It's Murder at St. Basket's

    Christopher Quincy was an American boy whose father admired everything British. As a result of this trait, Chris found himself trapped at St. Basket’s, an ancient London school founded -- and built -- in the time of Henry VIII and, Chris thought, i...

  • My Brother Sam Is Dead

    The Revolution was tearing Tim's family apart. All his life, Tim Meeker has looked up to his brother Sam. Sam's smart and brave, and always knows the right thing to do. In fact, everyone in town had admired Sam Meeker. Until now. Now Sam is par...

  • Rich and Famous

    Lost Treasures - 6

    THE BOY NEXT DOOR After discovering him during a six-second spot on television, George Stable's agent devises a plan to launch George's music career as the hot new "Boy Next Door." Unfortunately, his dad has other plans for the summer, and George is ...

  • Making of Jazz

    Explores the lives and contributions of more than one hundred major jazz musicians as well as describing the major styles and stages marking the development of jazz from ragtime and blues to electronic jazz...

  • War Comes to Willy

    A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears....

  • War Comes to Willy Freeman

    Willy Freeman’s life changes forever when she witnesses her father’s death at the hands of the Redcoats and returns home to find that the British have taken her mother as a prisoner to New York City. Willy, disguised as a boy, begins her long sea...

  • When the Stars Begin to Fall

    Everyone in Timber Falls knows that his family is trash, and sometimes Harry White thinks he’ll always be trash. But he can’t help getting angry -- what had he and his sister, Helen, ever done to anybody? When he discovers the local carpet factor...

  • The Winchesters

    Fourteen-year-old Chris Winchester is torn between two worlds. By birth, he’s part of the indomitable Winchester clan, owners of the enormous electronics factory that employs nearly everyone in town. Yet Chris’ father gave up his stake in the bus...

  • Outside Looking in

    At fourteen, Fergy is tired of his family’s life style. He’s tired of living in a van with his parents, J. P. and Gussie, and his younger sister, Ooma. He’s sick of peddling honey and pamphlets of his father’s writings. And most of all he hat...



  • My Crooked Family

    Sneaking into the majestic house on Park Row last night and unlocking the door for the well-dressed stranger had been exciting. Still, Roger knows that what he did for Circus was wrong, especially when he learns from the newspaper that one of the inh...

  • Duke Ellington

    "The text presents a unified view of Ellington as a 'special' human being; convinced even as a young boy that he would do great things in life, he labeled himself Duke and set about looking for the venue in which he would excel. He found it in jazz"....

  • With Every Drop of Blood

    A vivid portrayal of the Civil War. Johnny, fourteen, convinces his mother to let him join a wagon train carrying food to Confederate soldiers. He has been brought up to believe that all blacks are stupid; thus, when captured by a black Union soldier...

  • Corn Raid: A Story of the Jamestown Settlement

    Jamestown's American Portraits

    Life for indentured servants in pioneer Virginia is hard. It is doubly hard for Richard Ayre, a London orphan who had been scooped off the streets as a child and sent to the Jamestown Colony. But a chance encounter with an Indian boy his own age give...

  • The Worst of Times: A Story of the Great Depression

    Jamestown's American Portraits

    When the Depression strikes America, throwing millions out of work, Petey Williamson’s family seems safe. Hadn’t the boss promised Petey’s father that he’d always have a job? But during the Depression, promises cannot always be kept, and Pete...

  • Who Is Carrie?

    Carrie has been a kitchen slave in Sam Fraunces’ tavern in New York City for as long as she can remember. But after she narrowly escapes a kidnapper, Carrie becomes more curious about her mysterious past. After all, she doesn’t even know her own ...

  • The Empty Mirror

    Nick Hodges had always been a troublesome boy. Growing up an orphan in his Uncle Jack’s care in a small New England town wasn’t easy. Everyone was a little wary, a little watchful -- a little too watchful. One day, while Nick is walking in the wo...

  • Me and Billy

    Life at Deacon Smith’s Home for Waifs would be completely dreary if it weren’t for Possum’s best friend, Billy, who “thinks up lies faster than he can talk” and provides plenty of excitement for the other boys. When Billy hears that gold is...

  • The Dreadful Revenge of Ernest Gallen

    Gene Richards is haunted by a voice, and he doesn’t like what it’s saying. He’s trying to ignore it -- pretend it’s not real -- but the voice has plans for Gene. A long time ago, something bad happened in the town of Magnolia -- something tha...

  • The Jazz Kid

    Paulie Horvath is never going to be a good student like his brother, John, never going to follow his hardworking father into the plumbing trade, never going to ease his mother's mind by passing tests or cleaning up his room. But once he hears jazz by...



  • Its Murder at St. Baskets

    Christopher Quincy was an American boy whose father admired everything British. As a result of this trait, Chris found himself trapped at St. Basket's, an ancient London school founded—and built—in the time of Henry VIII and, Chris thou...

  • The Teddy Bear Habit or How I Became a Winner

    Lost Treasures - 3

    A twelve-year-old boy, whose problems include having to take "Square" music lessons, an attachment to a childhood teddy bear, and a father who earns a living creating comic strips, gets involved with jewel thieves in an attempt to break the dull rout...

  • The Worst of Times

    When the Depression strikes America, throwing millions out of work, Petey Williamson's family seems safe. Hadn't the boss promised Petey's father that he'd always have a job? But during the Depression, promises cannot always be kept, and Petey finds ...

  • The Teddy Bear Habit

    Twelve-year-old George Stable wants to be a rock star someday, but he gets horrible stage fright -- unless he has his old teddy bear with him. Hiding the teddy in his guitar seems like a brilliant idea. Then George discovers that someone has hidden s...

  • The Corn Raid

    Life for indentured servants in pioneer Virginia is hard. It is doubly hard for Richard Ayre, a London orphan who had been scooped off the streets as a child and sent to the Jamestown Colony. But a chance encounter with an Indian boy his own age give...

  • Chipper

    It's 1895 in New York City. Hard times have hit, and life isn't going to get better any time soon. Almost thirteen-year-old Chipper Carey is running with the Midnight Rats just to survive. Fortunately, fate steps in and introduces him to Miss Sibley,...

  • Give Dad My Best

    Back before the stock market crash, Jack's dad had been working steadily and their family had had plenty of money. But now, in the middle of the 1930s Depression, there isn't much work for a trombone player -- just a gig down in New York City once in...

  • Planet Out of the Past

    Char, Weddy, and Nuell are excited over their discovery on this strange planet Pleisto, but also terrified, for the leader of their expedition, Professor Joher, has disappeared. Nuell and Weddy, his son and daughter, are concerned for his safety, whi...

  • Rock Star

    To Tim Anderson, playing the guitar is as natural -- and just about as important -- as breathing. He’s already decided he’s going to be a musician. But his father has other career plans for him -- all involving college. And now, because Tim is on...

  • Wild Boy

    In this rousing coming-of-age story, readers return to the exciting frontier of an America that is moving west. Twelve-year old Jesse, having struck down his father in a fit of rage, has come to a major crossroads in his young life. No longer able to...



  • Popular Disasters: A Glancing Blow At Life

    "Popular Disasters," James Lincoln Collier's new collection of his humor, includes some of his best-known pieces, as well as many collected here for the first time, among them "The Care and Feeding of Life's Greatest Calamities," "The Truth About Rud...

  • I Am A Dominant

    MEMORABLE MOMENTS. TANTALIZING TALES. James Collier is a London based Dominant, and in this rare, unapologetic expose, he shares some of his more romantic, debauched, and whimsical escapades. With help from Maggie Carpenter, he has dramatized his sto...

  • After My Brother Sam

    The sequel to the Newbery Honor classic My Brother Sam Is Dead by bestselling author James Lincoln Collier!Tim has lost both his father and his brother, Sam, to the Revolutionary War. And for what? The war continues, with fighting and bloodshed all a...

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James Lincoln Collier has published 32 books.

The next book by James Lincoln Collier, After My Brother Sam, will be published in August 2025.

The first book by James Lincoln Collier, It's Murder at St. Basket's, was published in January 1972.

No. James Lincoln Collier does not write books in series.
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