Vivian Vande Velde

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1988
  • Latest Book:
    November 2022
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Full Series List in Order

Twitch the Squirrel

1 - 8 Class Pets + 1 Squirrel // 1 Dog = Chaos (Oct-2011)
2 - Squirrel in the House (Sep-2016)
3 - Squirrel in the Museum (Mar-2019)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Beauty and the Beast

Dragon's Bait (Sep-1992)
Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird (Nov-1995)

Fairytale Retellings: Red Riding Hood

Cloaked in Red (Oct-2010)

Fairytale Retellings: The Frog Prince

Frogged (Apr-2013)

Fairytale Retellings: Rumpelstiltskin

The Rumpelstiltskin Problem (Sep-2000)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • A Hidden Magic

    A young princess is tasked with rescuing a spoiled prince -- if she really wants to -- in this fantasy adventure by the author of Dragon Bait.Once upon a time there lived a very nice but very plain young princess named Jennifer. And she had the bad l...

  • User Unfriendly

    It’s the most advanced computer role-playing game ever: When you play you’re really there -- in a dark dream teeming with evil creatures, danger-filled fortresses, and malevolent sorceries. The game plugs directly into your brain -- no keyboard, ...

  • Dragon's Bait

    Fairytale Retellings: Beauty and the Beast

    In this fantasy adventure, a teenage girl accused of witchcraft and sentenced to death by dragon finds an unexpected friend -- and maybe something more. Fifteen-year-old Alys is not a witch. But that doesn’t matter -- the villagers think she is and...

  • Companions of the Night

    The Edgar Award"winning author of Never Trust a Dead Man puts a terrifying spin on what should be a typical night in a small town.   Sixteen-year-old Kerry has got a tough night ahead of her. What begins as a simple lost-and-found trip to the ...

  • Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird

    Fairytale Retellings: Beauty and the Beast

    Welcome to the fairy-tale world where Hansel and Gretel are horrible children who deserve to be baked and where Beauty is dismayed when her beloved Beast turns human. In the realm of the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird, when the sky really does ...

  • Curses, Inc. and Other Stories

    In the mood for something surprising, spooky, and stunning? Vivian Vande Velde's spellbinding short stories are filled with magic and mayhem. Witness the boy who breaks his dance date because he's too cheap to spend the money. He learns about spells ...

  • The Conjurer Princess

    Lylene's Crusade Some girls grow up fast. Especially princesses. One day Lylene was a bridesmaid, all dressed up for her older sister's wedding to a neighboring prince. A week later, Lylene was a wizard's apprentice, determined to gain the powe...

  • The Changeling Prince

    Weiland, a changeling who can assume many forms, is desperate to escape the sorceress who uses him and others as tools for her vengeance, until he meets a thief named Shile, who offers to help free him from the grasp of the sorceress. Original....

  • Ghost of a Hanged Man

    In the summer of 1877, when famous outlaw Jake Barnette is about to be hanged for three train robberies, two dozen bank hold-ups, and sixteen murders, he threatens to return from the grave for one final revenge, and strange things begin to happen all...



  • Smart Dog

    Everyone knows that dogs can’t talk. They can roll over. They can fetch a stick or a ball. They can even understand words like “Sit” or “Stay.” But they most certainly can’t say, “Excuse me. I’m in trouble. Could you please help me...

  • Never Trust a Dead Man

    SELWYN ROWESON HAS HAD A BAD WEEK. First Anora broke his heart and decided to marry Farold, then Farold beat him up in front of the entire village, and then, Farold was found dead, with a knife hilt-deep in his back. Which might not be so bad, except...

  • There's a Dead Person Following My Sister Around

    Imaginary friend--or GHOST? When Ted's five-year-old sister, Vicki, invents an imaginary friend, no one is too concerned ... until her "friend," Marella, starts to move things. Ted is sure that Marella is a ghost. But why would a ghost haunt Vicki? ...

  • Magic Can Be Murder

    “[A] lighthearted mystery . . . Kids who like mystery and fantasy and fans of television’s Sabrina, about a teenage witch, will like this” (Booklist).   Nola’s not much of a witch -- she can work only a few useless spells,...

  • The Rumpelstiltskin Problem

    Fairytale Retellings: Rumpelstiltskin

    What was with that bizarre fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin? WHY would a miller claim that his daughter can spin straw into gold? WHY would the king believe him? And WHY would a odd little man that can spin straw into gold do so in exchange for a tiny go...

  • Troll Teacher

  • Alison, Who Went Away

    Fourteen-year-old Susan (or, as she prefers to be called, Sybil) has been trying to reinvent herself ever since the mysterious disappearance of her older sister, Alison. Life has been very confusing since Alison left. Susan’s mother has become over...

  • Being Dead

    A sixteen-year-old will give anything to be with her true love -- even though he died two hundred years ago. . . . A sopping-wet little dead girl stalks a teen who had nothing to do with her death -- honest! . . . A heartless man dances with his wife...

  • Heir Apparent

    LOSE THE GAME, LOSE YOUR LIFE In the virtual reality game Heir Apparent, there are way too many ways to get killed -- and Giannine seems to be finding them all. Unless she can get the magic ring, find the stolen treasure, answer the dwarf's d...

  • Wizard at Work

    The wizard has big summer plans: to garden, to fish, and to nap. The only thing better would be if he had someone nice to share the days with. But the only people who show up want him to rescue yet another princess, lift the usual vile curse, confron...



  • Witch's Wishes

    When a little girl helps out a witch who has an accidental collision with a helicopter while returning from the market on her broom, the witch decides to grant all the girl's wishes for one magical evening that leads to a state of chaos no one could ...

  • Now You See It . . .

    Now you see it ... now you don't. Wendy isn't as blind as a bat -- there are bats who can see better than she can. That's why, when her new glasses break, she's all too happy to wear the dorky sunglasses she found on her lawn. Oddly enough, they ma...

  • The Book of Mordred

    Dark forces are taking hold in the kingdom of Camelot: King Arthur struggles to keep his knights in line as they steadily divide themselves into factions; the great Merlin has vanished at the hands of his lover and pupil, Nimue; wizards all over the ...

  • Three Good Deeds

    Goose, Goose, Boy If Howard had known the old hag was a witch, he never would have taunted her. Nit he did. So she did what witches do -- cursed him -- and now he's a goose. Which, to tell you the truth, is not as serene and peaceful as it migh...

  • A Well-Timed Enchantment

    It's bad enough that Deanna has to waste her summer in France and her only friend is a mangy black cat, but now she's staring hopelessly into a well, trying to figure out what in the world to wish for.Before she can make a wish, the cat scratches her...

  • A Coming Evil

    In a highly readable novel, Vande Velde daringly combines a fantasy with her tale of a young girl during the French Resistance in WWII. Lisette Beaucaire was angry when her parents sent her away from Paris that September day in 1940. And although she...

  • Remembering Raquel

    Fifteen-year-old Raquel Falcone is, as one of her classmates puts it, the kind of kid who has a tendency to be invisible. That is until the night she's hit by a car and killed while walking home from the movies. In brief, moving chapters, we hear ab...

  • Witch Dreams

    Sixteen-year-old Nyssa can enter into people’s dreams. Although the authorities of the medieval town of Lindenwolde would put her to death if they realized she was a witch, she feels compelled to practice her unique brand of witchcraft to ...

  • Stolen

    The same day that the villagers of Thornstowe finally hunt down a witch with a reputation for stealing children, a 12-year-old appears in the woods with no memory of her past. Is there a connection between Isabelle, the girl who doesn’t know who sh...

  • All Hallows' Eve

    Vivian Vande Velde spins 13 systematically scary yarns that all take place on All Hallows' Eve. Readers encounter a car possessed by a vengeful spirit, a mausoleum inhabited by a murderer and a family of ghosts as well as other creatures that will gi...



  • Cloaked in Red

    Fairytale Retellings: Red Riding Hood

    Eight witty stories that parody the Little Red Riding Hood tale ...

  • 8 Class Pets + 1 Squirrel // 1 Dog = Chaos

    Twitch the Squirrel - 1

    Twitch, the school yard squirrel, has really gotten himself into a bind this time. While trying to escape from a hungry owl, he roused the principal's dog and got chased into the school. Now he's locked in for a dangerous and disastrous night. Can Gr...

  • Deadly Pink

    Grace Pizzelli is the average one, nothing like her brilliant older sister, Emily, who works for Rasmussem, creators of the world’s best virtual reality games. The games aren’t real, though -- or at least they weren’t. Now Emily has hidden hers...

  • Frogged

    Fairytale Retellings: The Frog Prince

    One should be able to say of a princess “She was as good as she was beautiful,” according to The Art of Being a Princess (third revised edition), which the almost-thirteen-year-old Princess Imogene is supposed to be reading. Not feeling particula...

  • 23 Minutes

    A teen girl races against the clock to prevent a terrible tragedy in this time travel suspense thriller that will keep middle grade and young adult readers on the edges of their seats By both society’s measure and her own, fifteen-year-old Zoe Maha...

  • Squirrel in the House

    Twitch the Squirrel - 2

    A gleefully oblivious Squirrel narrates this rib-tickling chapter book about how he turns a family get together upside-down.  Squirrel, the chief mischief maker from 8 Class Pets + 1 Squirrel ÷ 1 Dog = Chaos is ready to party. He enters Cuddles...

  • The Princess Imposter

    Princess Gabriella is accustomed to a certain kind of castle life. So when she wakes up one morning in a crowded hut, surrounded by squabbling fairy siblings, it takes all her princess training to maintain her poise and good manners. Meanwhile, ac...

  • The Prince Problem

    Telmund is a prince who loves fables. But when a hasty witch mistakes him for a bully in need of paranormal punishment, he's cursed to transform into a new animal every time he falls asleep. With his shape constantly changing, Telmund discovers that ...

  • Squirrel in the Museum

    Twitch the Squirrel - 3

    Pandemonium breaks out at the science museum as Twitch, the popular squirrel from "8 Class Pets + 1 Squirrel ÷ 1 Dog = Chaos", hitches a ride in a backpack on a school trip. Twitch the Squirrel sets off chaos during the school trip to the science...

  • Squirrel on Stage

    Twitch the lovably chaotic squirrel and Sweetie the Library Rat accidentally make their stage debuts in this hilarious chapter book, a new followup to 8 Class Pets.When Twitch discovers the kids at school are putting on a Cinderella play, he can’t ...



Award-Winning Books by Vivian Vande Velde

Heir Apparent
2006 Sunshine State Young Reader's Award -- Grades 6-8
Never Trust a Dead Man
2000 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Vivian Vande Velde has published 39 books.

Vivian Vande Velde does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Squirrel on Stage, was published in November 2022.

The first book by Vivian Vande Velde, A Hidden Magic, was published in January 1988.

Yes. Vivian Vande Velde has 1 series.
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