Scott O'Dell

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  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1960
  • Latest Book:
    April 1995
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Full Series List in Order

Related Books

1 - Island of the Blue Dolphins (Oct-1960)
2 - Zia (Apr-1976)

Seven Serpents

1 - The Captive (Nov-1979)
2 - The Feathered Serpent (Oct-1981)
3 - The Amethyst Ring (Apr-1983)

Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • Island of the Blue Dolphins

    Related Books - 1

    In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds abound. Once, Indians also lived on the island. And when they left and sailed to the e...

  • Journey to Jericho

  • The King's Fifth

    Newbery Honor Book: A “stunning” historical novel of a teenager’s journey from Spain to the New World in search of gold (Kirkus Reviews). Mapmaker Esteban de Sandoval is only seventeen years old, but he has experienced much adventure, traveling...

  • Black Pearl

    Ramon cannot believe what he has just found in an oyster he's brought up from an underwater cave where the Manta Diablo, the monster devilfish, lurks. Ramon is holding a pearl. Not just any pearl, but the most fabulous gem he or anyone else has ever ...

  • Dark Canoe

    THERE IS A THIN LINE BETWEEN GENIUS AND MADNESS. When young Nathan sails with his older brothers in search of a lost treasure ship, he is expected to do exactly as they tell him. But when one of his brothers mysteriously dies and the othe...

  • Sing Down the Moon

    THE SPANISH SLAVERS WERE AN EVER-PRESENT THREAT TO THE NAVAHO WAY OF LIFE. One lovely spring day, fourteen-year-old Bright Morning and her friend Running Bird took their sheep to pasture. The sky was clear blue against the red buttes of the Canyon...

  • The Treasure of Topo-el-Bampo

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  • Child of Fire

  • The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day

    As smugglers, Tom Barton and his uncle Jack are used to breaking the law. With quick wits and secret cargo holds, they manage to avoid discovery and to make a comfortable living until William Tyndale asks them to carry precious English Bibles along w...



  • Zia

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    What happened to Karana of the Island of the Blue Dolphins? When fourteen-year-old Zia and her brother, Mando, find a boat cast up on the beach near the Santa Barbara mission, they are determined to make the voyage out to the far island -- the Is...

  • The 290

    Jim Lynne is idly playing darts in Liverpool when his brother, Ted, calls him over to a table to ask a question about the ship that he is working on. It seems the ship, strangely named the 290, is not the cargo ship that people are saying it is. What...

  • Carlota

    A young girl relates her feelings and experiences as a participant in the battle of San Pasqual during the last days of the war between Californians and Americans....

  • Kathleen, Please Come Home

    Fifteen-year-old Kathleen Winters has always been a good girl, trying to please her mother. But now, things are changing. First, there’s the new girl, Sybil Langley. Sybil is confident, rebellious, and worldly—everything Kathleen wishes s...

  • The Captive

    Seven Serpents - 1

  • Sarah Bishop

    A Fight For Survival Sarah Bishop used to cook and clean for her father and brother on their farm. She thought she'd do that all her life, until the Revolutionary War came to their village and changed everything for Sarah, forever. Now she's a ...

  • The Feathered Serpent

    Seven Serpents - 2

  • Spanish Smile

    Lucinda lived like a princess on her father's private island off the coast of California, Isla del Oro. But she was really a prisoner, shut off from the world, never allowed off the island. Then Christopher Dawson, a young archeologist, came to the i...

  • The Amethyst Ring

    Seven Serpents - 3

    Spanish seminarian Julián Escobar, known to the Mayas as Lord Kukulcán and worshipped as a god, witnesses the fall of the Mayan and Incan civilizations with the coming of Cortés and Pizarro....

  • The Castle in the Sea

    When Lucinda's wealthy and powerful father dies, she inherits the Isla del Oro, a small island off the coast of California, where everything is as it was when her grandfather first discovered it a century before. Lucinda is now the wealthiest girl in...



  • Alexandra

    For many generations, the men in Alexandra's family have been sponge divers -- first on the Greek island of Kalymnos and now in the Florida village of Tarpon Springs. Diving has always been considered a man's job by Alexandra's family -- dangerous an...

  • The Road to Damietta

    The Newbury Award-winning author delivers “what may be his finest novel” in this young adult narrative of Saint Francis of Assisi and the Fifth Crusade (Publishers Weekly).   Rich in the atmosphere of thirteenth-century Italy, The Road to Da...

  • Streams to the River, River to the Sea

    The award-winning author Scott O'Dell brings Sacagawea's story to life, giving us a breathtaking account of this young heroine's role in an American saga.Sacagawea, a young Native American woman, accompanied by her infant and her cruel husband, exper...

  • The Serpent Never Sleeps

    Pocahontas and early Jamestown are brought to life through the eyes of the Newbery Award winner's historical heroine....

  • Black Star, Bright Dawn

    Enter a World of Ice and Snow -- and Adventure.... Her name was Bright Dawn, a teenage Eskimo girl. He was Black Star, part husky but mostly wolf, with ice-blue eyes. Together, they were a team--about to begin the famous Iditarod dogsled race thro...

  • My Name Is Not Angelica

    In this historical novel set in the Virgin Islands of 1733, Raisha escapes from her Dutch "owners" in time to witness the mass suicide of her fellow slaves, who prefer death to recapture....

  • Thunder Rolling in the Mountains

    This powerful account of the tragic defeat of the Nez Perce Indians in 1877 by the United States Army is narrated by Chief Joseph's strong and brave daughter....

  • Venus Among the Fish

    Killer whales are invading the peaceful dolphin territory of Glacier Strait. Coral and her brother Snapper are sent from their herd to search for their older brother and safer waters. Coral's journey is treacherous as she encounters vicious sharks an...

  • Hill of the Hawk

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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

Award-Winning Books by Scott O'Dell

Island of the Blue Dolphins
1961 Newbery Medal -- Children's
1964 Nene Award -- Children's Fiction
1982 Virginia Readers Choice Award -- Elementary
Streams to the River, River to the Sea
1987 Scott O Dell Award for Historical Fiction -- Historical Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Scott O'Dell has published 28 books.

Scott O'Dell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Venus Among the Fish, was published in April 1995.

The first book by Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins, was published in October 1960.

Yes. Scott O'Dell has 2 series.
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