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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2009
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Fiona Finkelstein

Fiona Finkelstein, Big-time Ballerina!! // Ballerina Weather Girl (Sep-2009)
Fiona Finkelstein Meets Her Match!! // Miss Matched (Oct-2010)

Not-So-Ordinary Girl

1 - Fiona Finkelstein, Big-time Ballerina!! // Ballerina Weather Girl (Sep-2009)
2 - Fiona Finkelstein Meets Her Match!! // Miss Matched (Oct-2010)
3 - Don't Chicken Out (May-2013)

Penelope Crumb

1 - Penelope Crumb (Aug-2012)
2 - Penelope Crumb Never Forgets (Jan-2013)
3 - Penelope Crumb Finds Her Luck (Oct-2013)
4 - Penelope Crumb Is Mad at the Moon (Sep-2014)

Book List in Order: 12 titles



  • Sometimes Fiona Finkelstein's life seems to be a lot like a TV show -- everywhere she goes, there's a lot of drama. That's what being nine in Ordinary, Maryland, is like when your dad is the chief meteorologist for the local TV station, your mom li...



  • In addition to ballet, Fiona is out to prove she has other talents. Such as . . . match-making. She sets out to start a club with her friends and classmates to pair teachers and friends together-- but in the end, learns that she is much better at mat...



  • Penelope Crumb would LOVE Ramona Quimby! And might even name her eyebrow "Marge." Penelope Crumb is no ordinary fourth grader. She carries around a red toolbox that used to belong to her father (who's been dead since Penelope was a baby), she keep...



  • Penelope Crumb's best friend Patsy Cline Roberta Watson is becoming best friends with another girl in class, so Penelope decides she needs to win her back. Compliments and presents fail -- and Penelope is afraid she'll lose Patsy Cline forever, so s...



  • Fiona lands herself in a fairground fluster in this conclusion to the mischievous and charming Not-So-Ordinary Girl trilogy. Fiona is tired of hearing “no” from everyone. Especially when it is followed by: “You’re not old enough.” Can sh...



  • In the third book in this hilarious, endearing series, all Penelope Crumb wants is to be someone's "Favorite." She’d thought she was her Grandpa Felix’s Favorite, and her mom’s Favorite, and her friend Patsy Cline’s Favorite, but she’s star...



  • Penelope Crumb is not having a very good week. First she accidentally comes to school dressed as an elephant (dress like an animal day is next week), and then in gym class she's forced to square dance. With a boy who is known as Lippy Gordon because ...



  • THE SUMMER STORY OF THREE SISTERS, ONE RESTAURANT, AND A (POSSIBLE) GERMAN SPY World War II is coming in Europe. At least that’s what Frankie Baum heard on the radio. But from her small town in Maryland, in the wilting summer heat of 1939, the w...








  • Do you believe in impossible things? Cutie Grackle does. She has to. Otherwise, she’ll never be more than a lonely 10 year old in a cursed family. Cutie Grackle is used to being different -- she lives alone on a mountain with her feeble-minded...



  • A laugh-through-your-tears middle grade novel about what it’s like to lose something precious. For fans of the Three Rancheros series by Kate DiCamillo.A necklace. A bugle. A lion statue. What do they have to do with each other? Absolutely nothing ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Shawn K. Stout has published 12 books.

The next book by Shawn K. Stout, Anatomy of Lost Things, will be published in June 2024.

The first book by Shawn K. Stout, Fiona Finkelstein, Big-time Ballerina!! // Ballerina Weather Girl, was published in September 2009.

Yes. Shawn K. Stout has 3 series.