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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    No One Is Going To Nashville (September 1987)
  • Latest Book:
    The New Kid (December 2011)
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Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

Cinderella 2000: Looking Back (Jan-2001)

Books in Order: 14 titles

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  • Newbery Honor Award -- winning author Mavis Jukes is back with a lovable new character named Carson. His father moves him to a new town in Northern California, where he'll be the new kid in class -- friendless and alone, except for his beloved stuffe...



  • When Colton's mom tells him that they're moving from Idaho Falls to northern California, Colt is sad, but he takes it like a man. At least he'll have one friend to keep him company -- Smoke, the twenty-pound black Maine coon cat that Colt's dad gav...



  • Illus. in full color. "Timid Alex strives to be like his rugged cowboy stepfather, and the two find a common bond when Alex 'rescues' Jake from a wolf spider. Jukes' quiet observations are unfaltering in their perceptiveness. Radiant full-page pastel...



  • You’re a gruff bear with fleas. A grump with a hump between your shoulders.

    So begins Mavis Jukes’s playful story of a young girl who wanders the house, imagining herself as a bear with lots to do: sniff for owl in the skies, go for a dip,...



  • A hilarious account of preparing for New Year's Eve for the millennium with romance, drama, shopping, two devilish stepsisters, and a happily-ever-after ending.

    Ashley Ella Toral wants to spend the last hours of 1999 and the first hours of the...



  • A hilarious account of preparing for New Year's Eve for the millennium with romance, drama, shopping, two devilish stepsisters, and a happily-ever-after ending.

    Ashley Ella Toral wants to spend the last hours of 1999 and the first hours of the...



  • Young readers will love the latest novel from Newbery Honor winner Mavis Jukes:

    River is dreading the assignment in Mrs. Furley's Human Interaction class.  The students actually have to discuss a boy's changes!  River is finding it hard en...



  • A hilarious look at life in the sixth grade follows Mrs. Gladys B. Furley, R.N., Human Interaction teacher, and her innovative approach to sex education, an approach that reassures twelve-year-old River about the awful mysteries of becoming a teenage...







  • Independent-minded and angry at being left at home while her parents travel on business, twelve-year-old Iris gives her babysitter the slip; but a disturbing incident makes her realize that she does need her family and friends...



  • Disaster becomes the result when ten-year-old Maggie Hunter--the child of divorced and feuding parents--sets out to even the score with an obnoxious classmate, Corky Newton, who has a taste for playing dirty tricks...



  • "Austin's visit to his grandmother's is the first since Grandpa died. Austin notices Grandpa's things but feels the emptiness of his absence. This spare story vividly captures the emotions of painful times and shows how they ease with sharing and rem...




  • Sonia, a future world-famous veterinarian, and her newly remarried father engage in a comic but touching battle of wills over a friendly stray dog called Max, in this award-winning novel about contemporary family life. Reissue....


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mavis Jukes has published 14 books.

Mavis Jukes does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The New Kid, was published in December 2011.

The first book by Mavis Jukes, No One Is Going To Nashville, was published in September 1987.

No. Mavis Jukes does not write books in series.