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  • Bibliography:
    49 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1964
  • Latest Book:
    December 2017
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Full Series List in Order

The Castle Court Kids

1 - The Diamond War (May-1995)
The Box and the Bone (Mar-1995)
Ghost Invasion (Aug-1995)
Secret Weapons (Sep-1995)

Game

1 - The Egypt Game (1967)
2 - The Gypsy Game (Feb-1997)

Green-Sky

1 - Below the Root (1978)
2 - And All Between (Nov-2005)
3 - Until the Celebration (Nov-1985)

Stanley Family Mystery

1 - The Headless Cupid (Jul-1971)
2 - The Famous Stanley Kidnapping Case (Aug-1979)
3 - Blair's Nightmare (Mar-1984)
4 - Janie's Private Eyes (Jan-1989)

William S. Baggett

1 - William S. and the Great Escape (Jun-2009)
2 - William's Midsummer Dreams (Jun-2011)

Multi-Author Series List

Bullseye Chillers

The Changeling (1970)

Book List in Order: 49 titles



  • Pamela, left to spend a boring summer with her two stern aunts, experiences a moment that will change the shape of her visit when she sees a boy emerging from the mist with a herd of beautiful ponies....



  • Robin was always "wandering off" (her mother's words) to get away from the confusion she felt inside her. It was not until Robin's father found a permanent job at the McCurdy ranch, after three years as a migrant worker, that Robin ha...



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    A long, boring summer in the city stretches ahead for almost-twelve-year-old Harry Houdini Marco. Running a boarding house with his widowed mother is a never-ending job, and all Harry's friends have moved to the suburbs. But one day he does a favo...



  • The first time Melanie Ross meets April Hall, she's not sure they'll have anything in common. But she soon discovers that they both love anything to do with ancient Egypt. When they stumble upon a deserted storage yard behind the A-Z Antiques and Cur...



  • Shy, quiet Martha Abbott isn't sure where she fits in. Her family calls her Marty Mouse because she's so timid, and she's never been popular at school. It's not until she meets Ivy Carson that things begin to change. Ivy opens up a world of make-b...



  • When the four Stanley children meet Amanda, their new stepsister, they're amazed to learn that she studies witchcraft. They're stunned to see her dressed in a strange costume, carrying a pet crow, and surrounded by a pile of books about the supernatu...



  • Cats. Jessica's never liked them. Especially not a skinny, ugly kitten that looks like a worm. Worm. Jessica wishes she'd never brought Worm home with her, because now he's making her do terrible things. She's sure she isn't imagining the evil voi...










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  • Raamo, at thirteen, had rarely doubted the wisdom of the Ol-zhaan, the unquestioned rulers of the Green-Sky planet. Yet, after he had been chosen to become an Ol-zhaan, he made surprising discoveries and was exposed to dangers different form any he h...



  • The Stanley family is moving to Italy! David, Janie, and twins Esther and Blair are thrilled. But their moody stepsister Amanda, thwarted from spending time in California with her father, spends the trip alternately moping or boasting about how rich ...



  • Fifteen-year-old James has just discovered the magnificence of nature—but can he protect it from the phoniness of the material world?When his academic-minded parents decide to forsake civilization for a wilderness summer in the Sierra Nevada mo...





  • Summer is just a teenager, but sometimes she feels like the parentFifteen-year-old Summer McIntyre lives with her mother, Oriole, and seven-year-old sister, Sparrow, in a trailer in Alvarro Bay City, overlooking the Pacific. Oriole is a Northern Cali...



  • A giant Irish wolfhound might be the dog of David’s dreams in the third book in the Stanley Family series, a companion to The Headless Cupid, from three-time Newbery Honor winner Zipha Keatley Snyder.With five children, a raven, and a pet turkey na...





  • Resistant to their forced union, the Kindar of Green-sky and the Erdlings are shocked when their disappointment and misery is capped off by the disappearance of the Holy Children, Pomma and Teera. Reprint....






  • Carly might as well be invisible. Her older brothers and sisters move quietly along their own paths, governed by fear of their stern father and concern for their sick mother. Carly feels more at home with Great-aunt Mehitabel and her Chinese servant,...




  • Newbery Medal winner Zilpha Keatley Snyder delves into the paranormal in this story of a teenage boy who makes an extraordinary discoveryThe whole thing started six years ago when Dion James was around eight or nine. He got a shoe-shining gig on the ...



  • One by one, dogs are disappearing from thirteen-year-old David Stanley's neighborhood. Who could be taking people's pets? David's eight-year-old sister Janie has just founded the J.V. Stanley detective agency and she's determined to find out. It look...



  • Libby hates school. Before this year she was tutored at home by her eccentric but brilliant relatives, but now her mother has decided it's time for Libby to be "socialized." So here she is, stuck with four kids she doesn't like in a writers' club tha...



  • Tymmon was thrown out of his kingdom, and has to make his way in the world, but unexpected help from a singing gargoyle will certainly make that easierIn one night, Tymmon’s life is turned upside down. His father, the beloved court jester of Au...



  • For as long as he can remember, people have  warned fourteen-year-old Rudy and other kids in the  neighborhood not to play in Pyramid Hill's abandoned  gold mines. Even Rudy's best friend, Barney, a  true daredevil, won't go near those cavern...



  • Cat Kinsey is the fastest runner in Brownwood School. She's hoping to win the sixth-grade girls' race and the Winners' Grand Finale, too, as she did last year. But her old-fashioned father won't let her wear slacks like the other girls. Cat's so mad ...





  • Who stole the buried treasure? Carlos Garcia, Eddy Wong, and Bucky Brockhurst are building a brand-new private clubhouse when they stumble upon buried treasure. No sooner have they hauled the old metal box out of the ground than Bucky's irritating...






  • Eddy Wong and friends want to cut down a grove of trees to build a baseball diamond, but Kate and Aurora insist that the trees are the magical Unicorn's Grove. By the author of Fool's Gold. Original....



  • It’s almost Halloween, and the Castle Court Kids are ready to raise some ghostsThe old Anderson barn is haunted. According to sixteen-year-old Bettina Katzenbach, the ghosts of Addie Anderson and her bandit boyfriend return every Halloween. Ent...



  • The Castle Court Kids are back—and this time, they’re teaming up to fight the bad guysKate Nicely and her BFF, Aurora Pappas, haven’t told anyone about their top-secret science project that’s going to win first place at the An...



  • It all starts the summer after Neely finishes fifth grade. She is trying to entertain her little brother, Grub, when they accidentally find a way to sneak into Halcyon House, a magnificent mansion that has been deserted for years. Inside they discove...



  • "What do you know about Gypsies?" With that simple question, April Hall and Melanie Ross begin a thrilling new game. Before they know it, the whole gang is in on it -- even Toby, who just has to steal the show by claiming to be a real, live, authenti...



  • Gib Whittaker's life at Lovell House Orphanage in the early 1900s is pretty bleak. But along with hours of chores, bad food, and paddlings, the boys do get some schooling, and reading and writing are better than scrubbing floors. Still, Gib's fondest...



  • Dani O'Donnell is stuck in the middle of the desert, in 1951, in gruesome Rattler Springs, Nevada. She knows the desert hates her, and she hates it right back. All she wants to do is get home to California, but she and her mother are too broke to mov...



  • Gib Whittaker is leaving the Lovell House Orphanage for the second time in his young life. He’s going back to live with the Thornton family, who are free to take him in again now that Mr. Thornton has died. Life has changed on the old ranch, and Gi...



  • After her father dies, a lonely eleven-year-old finds a solution to her grief when she discovers a secret window into another lifeHallie Meredith is furious with God. First, her adored father died in a car accident. As if that weren’t horrible enou...



  • Eleven-year-old Matt Hamilton -- aka the Hamster -- is new in town, and just about the first thing he does is get lost in the woods of Rathburn Park. It's a typically boneheaded thing to do, and Matt is pondering whether starvation is preferable to t...






  • Xandra Hobson has always been fascinated by magic. So when she rescues a beautiful wounded bird, she is convinced that the glowing white feather it leaves behind must be magical. When she brings the feather to school, she is surprised to find that Be...



  • Abby O’Malley is a girl who likes things to make sense. School makes sense, and her best friend Paige makes sense (most of the time), but Abby’s flighty mother never makes sense. Abby’s mom seems to think that she and Abby are descended from a ...



  • Eight-year-old Teera finds herself above the powerful Root that keeps her Erdling community captive underground. The Erdlings are feared and despised by the Kindar people who live in the massive trees above. Raamo and Neric, two young Kindar discover...



  • Three-time Newbery Honor winner Zilpha Keatley Snyder combines a cast of quirky characters with an eerie old mansion to create a spellbinding tale of mystery and magic.Harleigh J. Weatherby IV feels misunderstood. At age twelve he is about as tall as...



  • Twelve-year-old Audrey Abbott dreams of becoming a writer, but with her father's failing health and the family's shaky finances, it seems there is no room for what her overworked mother would surely call a childish fantasy. So Audrey keeps her writin...



  • William S. Baggett is a good kid trapped in a really awful family. William has his running-away money ready to go, he's just been waiting until he's older than twelve to leave. When his big brothers flush his sister's pet guinea pig down the toilet, ...



  • After a year living with Aunt Fiona, William is off to audition for the role of Puck in a summer production of A Midsummer Night's Dream . But getting the part is just the beginning. Now William has to deal with a jealous rival, a not-so-secret admi...



  • Amy’s new town holds a secret far more wondrous than she could ever imagine Taylor Springs is the place where Amy’s family grew up, and it felt like her hometown even before she moved there. But there is one place that her family left out of t...



  • Nine novels from a three-time Newbery Honor author whose “tales of wonder, mystery, and suspense beguiled two generations of children and young adults” (The New York Times).   Blending realism and fantasy, Zilpha Keatley Snyder was a master ...



  • Nine novels -- including The Changeling -- from the three-time Newbery Honor author who “led young readers into the wondrous terrain between fantasy and reality” (The Washington Post).   Blending realism and fantasy, Zilpha Keatley Snyder wa...





Award-Winning Books by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

The Birds of Summer
1983 PEN Literary Award -- Children/Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Zilpha Keatley Snyder has published 49 books.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Zilpha Keatley Snyder Treasury Volume One, was published in December 2017.

The first book by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Season of Ponies, was published in June 1964.

Yes. Zilpha Keatley Snyder has 5 series.