Anne Schraff

Anne E. Schraff Anne E. Schraff is a remarkably productive American Young Adult author whose career spans a wide range of subjects. She has penned over eighty titles and counting, exploring everything from historical fiction and biographies to science topics. Yet her clear favorite area is young adult fiction, where she crafts engrossing high-school dramas.

The best place to start is the Passages to History series, the earliest of Anne Schraff's multi-book series: it opens with Dear Mr. Kilmer (1969) and runs to 15 books across 1969–2001, ending with The Burning of the Valley (2001). Anne Schraff's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Anne Schraff has 250 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1969 and 2025. 236 of them belong to 20 named series — the largest being the Urban Underground series with 40 books — and 14 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Anne Schraff's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Passages to History (1969–2001, 15 books), Passages 2000 (1978–2008, 14 books) and Passages (1978–2008, 11 books), plus 17 more.

This guide splits Anne Schraff's 250 books into 20 named series and 14 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Urban Underground (40 books, 2010–2014); Bluford High (25 books, 2002–2025); Legendary African Americans (18 books, 2000–2015); Passages to History (15 books, 1969–2001); Passages 2000 (14 books, 1978–2008), plus 15 further series.