Linda Sue Park

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2000
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Wing & Claw

1 - Forest of Wonders (Mar-2016)
2 - Cavern of Secrets (Mar-2017)
3 - Beast of Stone (Mar-2018)

Multi-Author Series List

The 39 Clues

9 - Storm Warning (May-2010)

The 39 Clues: Cahills Vs. Vespers

5 - Trust No One (Dec-2012)

Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • The Kite Fighters

    A tale of two brothers in fifteenth-century Korea from theNewbery Medal winner and #1 New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of A Long Walk to Water. In this riveting novel, two brothers discover a shared passion for kites. Kee-sup can craft a kite uneq...

  • A Single Shard

    Tree-ear is an orphan boy in a twelfth-century Korean potters’ village. For a long time he is content to live with Crane-man under a bridge, barely surviving on scraps of food. All of that changes when Tree-ear sees master potter Min making his bea...

  • When My Name Was Keoko

    "This powerful and riveting tale of one close-knit, proud Korean family movingly addresses life-and-death issues of courage and collaboration, injustice, and death-defying determination in the face of totalitarian oppression." (Kirkus starred review)...

  • Mung-Mung

    In this enchanting peek-a-boo book from Newbery Medal winner Linda Sue Park, babies can imitate animal sounds in 19 languages. What kind of animal says GAV-GAV in Russian, Bo-Bo in Hindi, and WOW-WOW in Spanish?...

  • The Firekeeper's Son

    In Korea in the early 1800s, news from the countryside reached the king by means of signal fires. On one mountaintop after another, a fire was lit when all was well. If the king did not see a fire, that meant trouble, and he would send out his army. ...

  • Project Mulberry

    Julia Song and her friend Patrick would love to win a blue ribbon, maybe even two, at the state fair. They've always done projects together, and they work well as a team. This time, though, they're having trouble coming up with just the right plan. T...

  • What Does Bunny See?

    Red poppies, yellow primroses, purple violets, and other colorful flowers bloom and grow in this delightful picture book by Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park -- the perfect tool for learning colors and flowers!“Lots of books teach children to recogni...

  • Yum! Yuck!

    At a busy street market, kids eating ice cream exclaim, "Yum!" in English, "Geshmak!" in Yiddish, and "Nam-nam!" in Danish. But disaster strikes when a little dog overturns a spice cart, showering pepper on everyone's ice cream. Will the kids end up ...

  • Bee-bim Bop!

    A Korean American girl celebrates food and family in this cheerful book about cooking a special meal by Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park.In bouncy rhyming text, an excited and hungry child tells about helping her mother make bee-bim bop: shopping, pre...



  • Archer's Quest

    TWELVE-YEAR-OLD KEVIN, A Korean American math whiz, is shocked beyond belief when a young man, complete with bow and arrows, crash lands in his bedroom. And that's just the beginning. The man, called Skillful Archer, claims to be a legendary ruler fr...

  • Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo

    A sijo, a traditional Korean verse form, has a fixed number of stressed syllables and a humorous or ironic twist at the end. Like haiku, sijo are brief and accessible, and the witty last line winds up each poem with a surprise. The verses in this boo...

  • Click

    Eoin Colfer, Nick Hornby, Roddy Doyle, Linda Sue Park, David Almond -- top authors team up to tell the story of a man who magically connects the lives and times of young people around the world.

    A video message from a dead person. A larcenous ...

  • SeeSaw Girl

    The powerful tale of a sheltered girl's daring attempts to enlarge her world, from Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park.Jade Blossom never ventures beyond the walls of her family's Inner Court. In seventeenth-century Korea, a girl of good family does not ...

  • Keeping Score

    Both Maggie Fortini and her brother, Joey-Mick, were named for baseball great Joe DiMaggio. Unlike Joey-Mick, Maggie doesn’t play baseball--but at almost ten years old, she is a dyed-in-the-wool fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Maggie can recite all th...

  • Storm Warning

    The 39 Clues - 9

    BEHIND THE BLACK The shadow of a man in black has followed fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, on their worldwide search for 39 Clues that lead to a great power. Amy and Dan know the man in black has tried to kill them. They k...

  • A Long Walk to Water

    A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2008 and a boy in Sudan in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours' walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond ev...

  • The Third Gift

    The three wise men, or the three kings, are familiar figures in the Christmas tradition. Newbery medalist Linda Sue Park has taken the brief biblical references to the three as the starting point for a new story. In it we meet a boy who is learning h...

  • Trust No One

    The 39 Clues: Cahills Vs. Vespers - 5

    A TRAITOR WIHTIN When seven members of their family were kidnapped, thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, got ready for the fight of their lives. But their enemy, a terrifying group known as the Vespers, remained frustratingly el...

  • Xander's Panda Party

    Xander planned a panda party. Yes, a dandy whoop-de-do! But Xander was the only panda. Just one panda at the zoo. The zoo’s paucity of pandas doesn’t impede Xander’s party planning for long. He decides to invite all the bears. But Koala pro...



  • Yaks Yak: Animal Word Pairs

    At once funny and informative, Yaks Yak presents animals acting out the verbs made from their names. Illustrations rich in comic details show hogs hogging, slugs slugging, and other spirited creatures demonstrating homographs, words with different me...

  • Forest of Wonders

    Wing & Claw - 1

    From Newbery Medal-winning author Linda Sue Park comes a captivating fantasy-adventure about a boy, a bat, and an amazing transformation. Raffa Santana has always loved the mysterious Forest of Wonders. For a gifted young apothecary like him, ever...

  • Cavern of Secrets

    Wing & Claw - 2

    In the second installment of the spellbinding Wing & Claw series, Newbery Medal-winning author Linda Sue Park takes a young apothecary hero to new heights of danger, exciting adventure, and intriguing botanical magic. Raffa Santana has spent all w...

  • Beast of Stone

    Wing & Claw - 3

    In this third and final installment in the enchanting Wing & Claw trilogy, Newbery Medal-winning author Linda Sue Park sends her young apothecary to the front lines of a fearsome battle, where he must rely on his talents and his friends to defend wha...

  • Gondra's Treasure

    Gondra, a little dragon with an Eastern dragon dad and a Western dragon mom, celebrates her uniqueness in this sparkling collaboration between Newbery medalist Linda Sue Park and rising star artist Jennifer Black Reinhardt. Gondra has inherited tr...

  • Nya's Long Walk

    In this picture book companion to the beloved bestseller A Long Walk to Water, a young South Sudanese girl goes on a journey that requires determination, persistence, and compassion.Young Nya takes little sister Akeer along on the two-hour ...

  • Prairie Lotus

    Prairie Lotus is a powerful, touching, multilayered novel about a girl determined to fit in and realize her dreams: getting an education, becoming a dressmaker in her father’s shop, and making at least one friend.Acclaimed, award-winning author Lin...

  • Gurple and Preen

    This wildly imaginative, crayon-inspired picture book shows that with a bit of teamwork and a universe of creativity, anything is possible! Buzz! Zap! CRASH! Gurple and Preen are in a big mess! When they crash-land onto an unfamiliar plane...

  • The One Thing You'd Save

    In this provocative discussion-starter about what really matters, Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park’s linked poems capture the diverse voices of a middle school class answering the question: “If your house were on fire, what one th...

  • Bee-bim Bop! Board Book

    A Korean American girl celebrates food and family in this cheerful board book about cooking a special meal by Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park.In bouncy rhyming text, an excited and hungry child tells about helping her mother make bee-bim bop: sho...



  • My Book and Me

    A celebration of books and reading from Newbery medal winner Linda Sue Park and illustrated by two-time Caldecott medal winner, Chris Raschka.This is my book.My favorite book.I carry it with mewherever I go.Meet the child who loves books in this lyri...

  • Gracie Under the Waves

    Gracie Under the Waves has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher....

Award-Winning Books by Linda Sue Park

A Long Walk to Water
2011 Jane Addams Children's Book Award -- Books for Older Children
A Single Shard
2002 Newbery Medal -- Children's
2004 Young Reader's Choice Award -- Intermediate/Grades 7-9


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Linda Sue Park has published 31 books.

The next book by Linda Sue Park, Gracie Under the Waves, will be published in September 2024.

The first book by Linda Sue Park, The Kite Fighters, was published in March 2000.

Yes. Linda Sue Park has 1 series.
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