Mary Amato

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2000
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Good Crooks

1 - Missing Monkey! (Feb-2014)
2 - Dog Gone! (Feb-2014)
3 - Sniff a Skunk! (Apr-2015)

Lucy McGee

1 - News from Me, Lucy McGee (Oct-2018)
2 - Sing With Me, Lucy McGee (Apr-2019)
3 - Lucky Me, Lucy McGee (May-2020)
4 - Lucy McGee, Star on TV (Nov-2020)

The Riot Brothers

1 - Snarf Attack, Underfoodle, and the Secret of Life (Apr-2004)
2 - Drooling and Dangerous (Mar-2006)
3 - Stinky and Successful (Nov-2007)
4 - Take the Mummy and Run (Apr-2009)

Star Striker

1 - Game On! (Sep-2021)

Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • The Word Eater

    Life is miserable for sixth grader Lerner Chanse at her new school. It looks like Lerner is destined to be a SLUG (Sorry Losers Under Ground) until she finds a magical worm that eats printed words instead of dirt. If Fip eats a word, that item simply...

  • Snarf Attack, Underfoodle, and the Secret of Life

    The Riot Brothers - 1

    Move over, Captain Underpants, a couple of new pranksters are in town. Narrated by fifth-grader Wilbur and featuring his third-grade brother, Orville, this hilarious story follows the antics of two boys with overactive imaginations and a comfortable ...

  • The Naked Mole-Rat Letters

    When her father begins a long-distance romance with a Washington, D.C. zookeeper, twelve-year-old Frankie sends fabricated email letters to the zookeeper in an attempt to end the relationship, in this story about family, friendship, and growing up....

  • Drooling and Dangerous

    The Riot Brothers - 2

    Orville and Wilbur Riot have never been strangers to adventure, and according to Riot Brother Rule #15, You can't do the same mission twice. So now they're back with more games, more missions, and loads more fun. One day they are spies on the trail o...

  • Please Write In This Book

    When a teacher leaves a blank book in the Writer’s Corner for her students to find, with the instructions "Please Write in this Book," she hopes it will encourage her students to talk to one another in its pages. They do, and the result is an epic ...

  • Stinky and Successful

    The Riot Brothers - 3

    Just when you thought the Riot Brothers couldn't get any wackier or more hilarious, along comes the third book in the series, chock full of even more eye-popping, mouth-foaming missions, games, and sayings. Whether Orville and Wilbur are playing Sock...

  • The Chicken of the Family

    Henrietta?s two older sisters love to tease her. When they try to convince her that she?s actually a chicken instead of a little girl, it?s pretty hard to believe at first. But the evidence is all there: her legs are kind of yellow, and her toes are ...

  • Take the Mummy and Run

    The Riot Brothers - 4

    Orville and Wilbur Riot are back in the hilarious fourth book of the Riot Brothers adventures. Whether hunting for lost mummies or creating their own water park, there's never a dull moment. A companion to "Snarf Attack," "Underfoodle," and the "Secr...

  • Invisible Lines

    If there’s one thing I’m good at it’s making people laugh because when I’m standing up I’m what you call a stand-up comedian, and when I’m sitting down, I’m just plain funny. 
     
    Trevor is just plain funny, and he’s lucky he i...



  • Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook

    First Slurpy is fishnapped, then other things from Mrs. Blackwell's room start to disappear. Odder still, whoever is committing these crimes leaves a note written in poetry. Edgar has it all covered in his "crime investigation notebook"--but so does ...

  • Guitar Notes

    On odd days, Tripp Broody uses a school practice room to let loose on a borrowed guitar. Eyes closed, strumming that beat-up instrument, Tripp escapes to a world where only the music matters. On even days, Lyla Marks uses the same practice room. T...

  • Dog Gone!

    Good Crooks - 2

    A funny, silly new series perfect for fans of Dav Pilkey and Tony Abbott. Mary Amato is a star of state master and children's choice lists and returns to the age category of her popular Riot Brothers chapter book series with this new venture. Whe...

  • Missing Monkey!

    Good Crooks - 1

    A funny, silly new series perfect for fans of Dav Pilkey. Mary Amato is a star of state master and children's choice lists and returns to the age category of her popular Riot Brothers chapter book series with this new venture. When their parents ...

  • Get Happy

    In this poignant, realistic, contemporary YA by a state master list star, a young songwriter builds a substitute family with her friends in place of her own broken family. Minerva has been raised by her single mother after her father left them bo...

  • Sniff a Skunk!

    Good Crooks - 3

    "Good Crooks Book Three: Sniff a Skunk!" brings back our favorite pair of do-gooder crooks in a hilarious adventure about an odiferous encounter with a skunk. ...

  • Our Teacher Is a Vampire and Other (Not) True Stories

    It all begins when Alexander H. Gory Jr. passes around a notebook in which he reveals a tantalizing secret: he has proof that their teacher, Mrs. Penrose, is a vampire. Soon the entire class is speculating and adding their opinions to the notebook un...

  • Open MIC Night at Westminster Cemetery

    When Lacy wakes up dead in Westminster Cemetery, final resting place of Edgar Allan Poe, she's confused. It's the job of Sam, a young soldier who died in 1865, to teach her the rules of the afterlife and to warn her about Suppression -- a punishment ...

  • News from Me, Lucy McGee

    Lucy McGee - 1

    When the coolest girl in the class invites you to her exclusive after-school club, how can you say no? Even if it means skipping out on Songwriting Club? Even if she's always been too popular to give you the time of day? Even if she asks you to ...

  • Sing With Me, Lucy McGee

    Lucy McGee - 2

    When a talent show brings out cutthroat tendencies in her classmates, aspiring singer, songwriter, and ukulele player Lucy has to fight for what's fair and avoid falling for mean girl Scarlett's ploys yet again in the second book in the generously il...



  • Lucky Me, Lucy McGee

    Lucy McGee - 3

    Fourth grader Lucy McGee's ukulele is missing--and if she doesn't find it soon, she'll be kicked out of the Songwriting Club!Lucy McGee is determined to track down her beloved instrument, but she can't let anyone catch on--even best friend Phillip. W...

  • Lucy McGee, Star on TV

    Lucy McGee - 4

    A chance to be on TV brings out the worst in fourth grader Lucy McGee--and now her friends want her out of the Songwriting Club!Lucy McGee and Phillip Lee are invited to perform a song on their school's morning show--this is their big break! First, t...

  • Game On!

    Star Striker - 1

    Join Albert and a group of ragtag aliens as they dribble, cross, and score across the galaxy in this soccer-themed story of unlikely friendships.The day that aliens abducted 13-year-old Albert Kinney was the day he was hoping to make the school so...

  • Touch and Go

    Albert and the Zeenods are back in this second book in the thrilling Star Striker series about unlikely friendships and interstellar soccer.Albert and his Zeenod teammates might not be the best soccer players in the universe but there's nothing Alber...

  • Star Striker #2

    Albert and the Zeenods are back in this second book in the thrilling Star Striker series about unlikely friendships and interstellar soccer.Albert and his Zeenod teammates might not be the best soccer players in the universe but there's nothing Alber...

  • Perfect Partners

    Cat has a passion for painting. When she sees an advertisement to join an art club, she jumps at the chance to find painting partners—other cats like her. However when she arrives at the club, it is filled with barking dogs. What will panicked ...

  • The Final Goal

    In this thrilling conclusion to the Star Striker series, Albert and his team face the final round of the interplanetary soccer tournament -- but with the Zeenods’ freedom on the line, it’s no game.As Albert and the Zeenods prepare for their final...

Award-Winning Books by Mary Amato

The Chicken of the Family
2009 Buckeye Children's Book Award -- Grades K-2
Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook
2011 Delaware Diamonds Award -- Grades 3-5
Guitar Notes
2015 Beehive Award -- Young Adult
Please Write In This Book
2012 Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award -- Grades 3-5
The Word Eater
2004 Grand Canyon Reader Award -- Intermediate


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mary Amato has published 26 books.

Mary Amato does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Final Goal, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Mary Amato, The Word Eater, was published in June 2000.

Yes. Mary Amato has 4 series.
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