Lois Duncan

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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1966
  • Latest Book:
    August 2016
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About the Author

Lived: April 28, 1934 ~ June 15, 2016 (age 82)

Full Series List in Order

For Dogs

1 - Hotel for Dogs (Jun-1971)
2 - News for Dogs (Apr-2009)
3 - Movie for Dogs (Jun-2010)

Multi-Author Series List

Lost Treasures

9 - Hotel for Dogs (Jun-1971)

Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • Ransom

    The lives of five captives hang in the balance while their families gather the ransom. Two brothers, their family frantic to find their sons. A loner whose uncle doesn't even know he's missing. An army brat whose family will never be able to raise...

  • Peggy

    Historical fiction set just prior to and during the Revolutionary War about the life of the belle of Philadelphia who became Mrs. Benedict Arnold....

  • Hotel for Dogs

    For Dogs - 1
    Lost Treasures - 9

    EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY… LIZ WALKER LONGS TO ADOPT the scruffy stray she finds on her doorstep one day. But she can't take her home -- her aunt Alice is allergic to dogs. With the help of her brother, Bruce, Liz manages to find the perfect home...

  • Five Were Missing

    IT WAS AN ORDINARY SCHOOL BUS RIDE …at first, Glenn was being his usual wonder-boy self, while his brother Bruce quietly sat in his shadow. Shy, dark-haired Jesse French tried to concentrate on the book she was reading. Dexter, sullen and self-con...

  • When the Bough Breaks

    Kathryn and Robert Michener have been married twelve years when she learns of his affair with another woman. Her pride is shattered, and although Rob swears that Barbara means nothing to him, Kate starts divorce proceedings immediately… Now, thr...

  • I Know What You Did Last Summer

    THEY THOUGHT IT WAS OVER Last summer, four terrified friends made a desperate pact to conceal a shocking secret. But now, someone has learned the truth. The horror is starting again. There is an unknown avenger out there who is stalking them in a...

  • Down a Dark Hall

    The terror is real only in her dreams. Kit knows that evil waits for her in the dark halls of Blackwood School for Girls. But she doesn't know it has already entered her life. Who will believe her if her fears are real only when she sleeps? ...

  • Summer of Fear

    What is it about lovely cousin Julia that fills Rachel with terror? From the moment Julia arrived that summer, she seemed to seep into Rachel Bryant's life like a poison. Rachel knew she should feel sorry for her seventeen-year-old cousin. But why...

  • Killing Mr. Griffin

    The plan was only to scare their English teacher... They never actually intended to kill Mr. Griffin. But sometimes plans go wrong. ...



  • Daughters of Eve

    The girls at Modesta High School feel like they're stuck in some anti-feminist time warp-they're faced with sexism at every turn, and they've had enough. Sponsored by their new art teacher, Ms. Stark, they band together to form the Daughters of Eve. ...

  • The Third Eye

    An edge-of-your-seat thriller from the bestselling author of I Know What You Did Last Summer. When Karen closes her eyes, the visions come. Through time and space, she sees a place where stolen children sleep. And if Karen denies a young policeman's ...

  • The Eyes of Karen Connors

  • Wonder Kid Meets the Evil Lunch Snatcher

  • Songs from Dreamland

  • The Birthday Moon

  • Don't Look Behind You

    If you had the perfect life, would you be able to walk away forever? April has no choice. It's senior year, and April has everything -- great friends, a handsome boyfriend, and a shot at the state tennis championships. Until she learns that her...

  • Stranger With My Face

    Laurie Stratton finally has everything a sixteen-year-old could ever want. But just as her perfect summer comes to a close, things start to unravel when her boyfriend insists he saw her out with another guy-when Laurie was really home sick! More myst...

  • Locked in Time

    Nore Roberts didn't ask for a new life, but now that her mom is gone and her dad is newly married, she has to settle in at Shadow Grove, the old Civil War mansion her stepfamily calls home. When she meets her stepmother, Lisette, Nore is shocked by h...

  • A Gift of Magic

    When the old woman died, she left her grandchild Nancy with the extraordinary gift of magic. Nancy can read people's minds, know their thoughts, and make them do what she wants. Will she use her gift for good, or satisfy her own selfish desire?Lois D...



  • The Twisted Window

    The new guy at Tracy's school is handsome, intense, and desperately needs her helpbut there's something about him that isn't quite right High school junior Tracy Lloyd is unsure about the new guy in school. Brad Johnson is attractive, smart, an...

  • Who Killed My Daughter?

    On July 16, 1989, Kaitlyn Arquette was shot to death in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The police gave up, but her mother would not . . . In this tragic memoir and investigation, Lois Duncan searches for clues to the murder of her youngest child, eighte...

  • They Never Came Home

    Dan and Larry’s hiking trip ends in a missing persons search. Can Joan find her brother before it’s too late? When high school buddies Larry Drayfus and Dan Cotwell take a backpacking trip into the Mogollon Mountains, nobody is concerned when ...

  • The Magic of Spider Woman

  • Night Terrors

    A collection of eleven original stories about the dark features chilling works by Joan Aiken, Alane Ferguson, Madge Hurrah, Annette Curtis Klause, Chris Lynch, Harry Mazer, Norma Fox Mazer, Joan Lowry Nixon, Richard Peck, Ted Taylor, and Patricia Win...

  • Gallows Hill

    The crystal paperweight should have been clear, but it was not.

    Handsome, popular Eric Garrett decides that Sarah Zoltanne is just the right person to play a fortune-teller at the high-school fair.  Sarah is surprised and pleased.  After a...

  • Trapped

  • The Longest Hair in the World

  • I Walk at Night

    As the night approaches, the friendly house cat is set free from his home whereupon he becomes a prowler of the night, yet when the morning comes, his adventure ends and the cat returns to be the friendly family pet once more....

  • On The Edge

    A collection of powerful stories reveals what it is like to live life on the edge and features such contributors as Terry Davis, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Alden R. Carter, Rich Wallace, and Ellen Wittlinger. Reprint....



  • Song of the Circus

  • News for Dogs

    For Dogs - 2

    From the beloved author comes the sequel to Hotel for Dogs. It’s up to Andi and her brother Bruce to foil the plans of evil dognappers.Now that Andi is no longer running a hotel for dogs, she decides to start a new project -- a newspaper for dogs! ...

  • Movie for Dogs

    For Dogs - 3

    The hilarious sequel to HOTEL FOR DOGS (made into the hit movie!) and NEWS FOR DOGS! Andi and her canine friends are back for their biggest adventure yet -- Hollywood! When Andi's brother Bruce wants to enter a dog-themed film-making contest, Andi...

  • Debutante Hill

    Louis Duncan's 1958 young adult classic tells the story of what happens when the debutante tradition comes to one small town: the parties, the ball gowns, as well as one girl's growing sense of right and wrong.Lynn Chambers is popular, wealthy, and g...

  • Written in the Stars

    "What makes 'Written in the Stars' striking and quite wonderful is the ease and sagacity with which Ms. Duncan writes about adolescence (at an astonishingly young authorial age) and the emotional resonance she creates with characters we will know onl...

  • The Middle Sister

    Tall and thin, Ruth envies the golden femininity of her older sister, Janet, and the delicate wistfulness of her younger sister. Ruth tries to imitate Janet, even simulating her interest in a theatrical career, but in the end it becomes apparent t...

Award-Winning Books by Lois Duncan

Don't Look Behind You
1992 Iowa Teen Award -- Young Adult
1992 Virginia Readers Choice Award -- High School
1993 Volunteer State Book Award -- Young Adult
Gallows Hill
2000 Volunteer State Book Award -- Young Adult
Locked in Time
1987 South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award -- Young Adult
Stranger With My Face
1986 Young Hoosier Book Award -- Grades 6-8
Summer of Fear
1982 Land of Enchantment Book Award -- Children/Young Adult
The Third Eye
1987 Colorado Blue Spruce Award -- Young Adult
Who Killed My Daughter?
1995 Young Reader's Choice Award -- Grades 9-12


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lois Duncan has published 35 books.

Lois Duncan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Middle Sister, was published in August 2016.

The first book by Lois Duncan, Ransom, was published in January 1966.

Yes. Lois Duncan has 1 series.
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