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ⓘ About David A. Kelly
Author David A. Kelly is a writer of a lot of different things; he has written about travel, contributed to books, and writes children’s books. He is also a technology analyst and gets published in many corporate magazines. He is the Business Travel Expert on About.com, and writes about travel for many newspapers. To make a long story short, the man writes all kinds of different things, that get published all over the place. Kelly holds and MBA in Marketing that he got from Bentley University, a BA from Syracuse University, and an MA in Cognitive and Neural Networks from Boston University. Kelly is a member of an organization that is made up of the nation’s leading professional travel writers (that is called Society of American Travel Writers).
All Book Series by David A. Kelly
Soccer for Kids: Learn the Basics & Play the Game
Single-title series · published 2021
Balto and the Great Race
Series opener · book 1 of 12 · published 1999 Anthology · Elizabeth Cody Kimmel,Nora Koerber
The Curse of King Tut's Mummy
Book 3 of 12 · published 2005 Anthology · Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld,Jim Nelson
Babe Ruth and the Baseball Curse
Book 4 of 12 · published 2009 Co-authored · Tim Jessell
Finding the First T-Rex
Book 5 of 12 · published 2010 Anthology · Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
The $25,000 Flight
Book 6 of 12 · published 2014 Anthology · Lori Haskins Houran
Apollo 13
Book 7 of 12 · published 2015 Anthology · Wesley Lowe,Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
The Race Around the World
Book 8 of 12 · published 2015 Anthology · Nancy F. Castaldo
Climbing Everest
Book 9 of 12 · published 2015 Anthology · Gail Herman,Michele Amatrula
The Search for El Dorado
Book 10 of 12 · published 2016 Anthology · Lois Miner Huey
Kerri Strug and the Magnificent Seven
Book 11 of 12 · published 2016 Anthology · Kaitlin Moore
George Washington's Spies
Latest in the series · book 12 of 12 · published 2016 Anthology · Claudia Friddell
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is David A. Kelly?
Author David A. Kelly is a writer of a lot of different things; he has written about travel, contributed to books, and writes children's books. He is also a technology analyst and gets published in many corporate magazines. He is the Business Travel Expert on About.com, and writes about travel for many newspapers.
Which David A. Kelly series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Totally True Adventures series, the earliest of David A. Kelly's multi-book series: it opens with Balto and the Great Race (1999) and runs to 12 books across 1999–2016, ending with George Washington's Spies (2016). David A. Kelly's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has David A. Kelly written?
David A. Kelly has 49 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1999 and 2025. 45 of them belong to 6 named series — the largest being the Ballpark Mysteries series with 23 books — and 4 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should David A. Kelly's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. David A. Kelly's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Totally True Adventures (1999–2016, 12 books), Ballpark Mysteries (2011–2025, 23 books) and Ballpark Mysteries Super Special (2016–2019, 4 books), plus 3 more.
How are David A. Kelly's books organised into series?
This guide splits David A. Kelly's 49 books into 6 named series and 4 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Ballpark Mysteries (23 books, 2011–2025); Totally True Adventures (12 books, 1999–2016); Ballpark Mysteries Super Special (4 books, 2016–2019); MVP (4 books, 2016–2017); Football Mysteries (1 book, 2023), plus 1 further series.