Lauren St. John

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2007
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Legend of the Animal healer

1 - The White Giraffe (May-2007)
2 - Dolphin Song (May-2008)
3 - The Last Leopard (Aug-2008)
4 - The Elephant's Tale (Jun-2010)

Wolfe and Lamb Mysteries

1 - Kat Wolfe Investigates (Oct-2018)
2 - Kat Wolfe Takes the Case (Dec-2019)
3 - Kat Wolfe on Thin Ice (Jan-2021)

Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • The White Giraffe

    Legend of the Animal healer - 1

    The night Martine Allen turns eleven years old is the night her life changes completely. Martine?s parents are killed in a fire, so she must leave her home to live on an African wildlife reserve with a grandmother she never even knew she had. When Ma...

  • Dolphin Song

    Legend of the Animal healer - 2

    Just as Martine is settling into life on the wildlife game reserve, she is whisked away on a school trip. She must leave her white giraffe, Jemmy, for two weeks! Her class is going on an ocean voyage to witness the Sardine Run, a spectacular natural ...

  • The Last Leopard

    Legend of the Animal healer - 3

    The fourth exciting book in the dramatic Legend of the Animal Healer series!Martine, her grandmother, and her best friend, Ben, are off to Zimbabwe to help her grandmother's friend, Sadie, run a hotel in the Matobo Hills. But when they arrive, Martin...

  • The Elephant's Tale

    Legend of the Animal healer - 4

    THE ELEPHANTS WILL LEAD YOU TO THE TRUTH Since moving to the Sawubona game reserve with her grandmother and discovering her mystical connection to animals, Martine's life has been full of adventure. When a mysterious stranger appears at Sawubona cla...

  • Dead Man's Cove

    When orphaned Laura Marlin moves from a children's home to live with her uncle in Cornwall, she longs for an exciting life just like the characters in her favourite detective novels. A real life adventure is on hand as she is deposited at her uncle's...

  • Kidnap in the Caribbean

    From Cornwall to the Caribbean, 11-year-old ace detective Laura Marlin comes face to face with pirates, sharks, criminal masterminds and an erupting volcano in her second mystery adventure, from award-winning author Lauren St John. Laura cannot con...

  • White Giraffe Box Set

  • The One Dollar Horse

    A thriller set in the equestrian world about making the impossible possible, about reaching the top on a one dollar horse.Fifteen year old Casey Blue lives in East London's grimmest tower block and volunteers at a local riding school, but her dream i...

  • Kentucky Thriller

    Eleven-year-old ace detective Laura Marlin finds herself deep in the murky world of race-fixing, trickery and horse thieves in her third mystery adventure, from award-winning author Lauren St John. Laura Marlin's two greatest loves in life are det...



  • Race the Wind

    The second romantic thriller in the gripping One Dollar Horse series in which Casey and her horse Storm face the challenge of the Kentucky Three Day Event.From the prize-winning author of the BLUE PETER BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD, the second romantic thr...

  • Shumba's Big Adventure

    Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. Shumba is the naughtiest lion cub in the whole of Af...

  • Rendezvous in Russia

    Eleven-year-old ace detective Laura Marlin is whirled into a breathtaking Russian adventure in her fourth gripping mystery, from award-winning author Lauren St John. When Laura Marlin's Siberian husky, Skye, saves an actress's life, she and her bes...

  • The White Giraffe and Dolphin Song

    11 year old Martine's African adventures begin in THE WHITE GIRAFFE and DOLPHIN SONG, as she meets a magical white giraffe, rescues beached dolphins, and learns of an ancient prophecy that says the child who rides the white giraffe will have power ov...

  • Fire Storm

    What if victory cost you your life? The final novel in The One Dollar Horse series by prize-winning Lauren St John, in which Casey and Storm compete at the Burghley Horse Trials. Teenage eventing star Casey Blue has it all - fame, her champion horse...

  • Dead Man's Cove and Kidnap in the Caribbean

    2-in-1 edition of the first two stories in the BLUE PETER AWARD-winning mystery adventure series about11-year-old ace detective, Laura Marlin. BLUE PETER AWARD-winning DEAD MAN'S COVE is the first in a new detective adventure series from the author...

  • The Obituary Writer

    Nick Donaghue, a young, handsome obituary writer for The Times, leads a charmed existence until he is caught up in one of Britain's worst ever train crashes. When he survives unscathed, his friends and colleagues consider him the luckiest man alive. ...

  • The Glory

    From the bestselling author of THE ONE DOLLAR HORSE trilogy a sensational, stand-alone equestrian thriller and romance about a girl on the run from the law, a boy on a mission to save a life and a race from Colorado to Oregon that they both have to w...

  • Kentucky Thriller and Rendezvous in Russia

    2-in-1 edition of the first two stories in the BLUE PETER AWARD-winning mystery adventure series about 11-year-old ace detective, Laura Marlin. In KENTUCKY THRILLER, Laura is ecstatic when her uncle agrees to let her keep a horse after they rescue ...

  • Operation Rhino

    The fifth African adventure in Lauren St John's bestselling THE WHITE GIRAFFE series. When Sawubona's white rhinos are attacked, the poachers leave behind a terrified calf. Devastated but determined to help, Martine and Ben agree to take the rhino b...



  • A Friend for Christmas

  • Mercy and the Hippo

    A full colour red Early Reader story about a little girl and her hippo friend, Mercy, from BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD-winning author, Lauren St John.

    Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books perfect for building confi...

  • The Secret of Supernatural Creek

    Eleven-year-old ace detective Laura Marlin is back for her next exciting adventure in the fifth mystery from award-winning author Lauren St John. 'Anyone ever told you that you're too clever for your own good, Laura Marlin?' With her arch-nemesis, Mr...

  • Kat Wolfe Investigates

    Wolfe and Lamb Mysteries - 1

    When twelve-year-old Kat Wolfe starts a pet-sitting agency, she soon finds herself unraveling a mystery, in this first book of a new middle-grade series from award-winning author Lauren St. John. After a break-in at their London home, Kat Wolfe an...

  • The Snow Angel

    Lauren St John's stunning Christmas classic is about forgotten children, the power of nature to heal us and a girl who will climb mountains in search for a place to call home. Nominated for the 2019 Carnegie Medal. Growing up in vibrant, crowded Nair...

  • Black Beauty

    Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and ...

  • Kat Wolfe Takes the Case

    Wolfe and Lamb Mysteries - 2

    Kat Wolfe, Harper Lamb, and their animal sidekicks are back in a new caper as Lauren St. John's Wolfe and Lamb Mysteries .A suspicious death coincides with the exciting discovery of the fossilized bones of a 200-million-year-old dinosaur. Kat is on t...

  • Kat Wolfe on Thin Ice

    Wolfe and Lamb Mysteries - 3

    The Wolfe Pet Sitting Agency returns to unravel another mystery -- and this time, it's a slippery slope for our heroes and their newfound husky-dog sidekicks! Kat Wolfe on Thin Ice is the third book in the middle-grade series about animals and friend...

  • Wave Riders

    The sea almost killed them, and now it must lead them to the truth in this standalone middle-grade eco-mystery about twins lost on the high seas from the author of the bestselling novel The White Giraffe.Twelve-year-old Jess and Jude live a dream lif...

  • The Midnight Picnic



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  • Finding Wonder

    'Superb storytelling.' - Phil Earle'Absolutely brilliant!' Abi Elphinstone, author of Sky Song'Completely enthralling. A masterclass in mystery adventure.' - Piers Torday'Utterly magnificent.'- Judith Eagle'Glorious . . . passionate, intricate, total...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lauren St. John has published 31 books.

Lauren St. John does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Finding Wonder, was published in September 2023.

The first book by Lauren St. John, The White Giraffe, was published in May 2007.

Yes. Lauren St. John has 2 series.
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