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ⓘ About Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Marie is one of just a handful of American journalists that have been granted a visa to North Korea since the Korean War. She was the first Fulbright Scholar to Korea in creative writing and has received many honors for her work, which includes the Best Book Award from the Friends of American Writers, an O. Henry honorable mention, and a New York Foundation for the Arts fiction fellowship. Her essays and stories have been published in Guernica, Slate, Salon, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The Guardian, and The Nation, as well as others. She is a founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and she teaches creative writing at Columbia. “Finding My Voice” is the first novel in the “Ellen Sung” series and was released in 1992.
All Book Series by Marie Myung-Ok Lee
If It Hadn't Been for Yoon Jun
Series opener · book 1 of 7 · published 1993 Pen name · Marie G. Lee
Lottie & Lisa
Series opener · book 1 of 94 · published 1952 Anthology · Erich Kastner
Summerdog Comes Home
Book 2 of 94 · published 1980 Anthology · George Albert Zabriskie
A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher
Book 3 of 94 · published 1981 Anthology · Mike Thaler
Baseball Fever
Book 4 of 94 · published 1981 Anthology · Ray Cruz,Johanna Hurwitz
Basic Fun
Book 6 of 94 · published 1982 Anthology · Susan Drake Lipscomb,Margaret Ann Zusnich
Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You
Book 10 of 94 · published 1983 Anthology · Vicki Cobb
Bet You Can't!
Book 13 of 94 · published 1983 Anthology · Kathy Darling,Vicki Cobb
The Earth is Flat--And Other Great Mistakes
Book 14 of 94 · published 1983 Anthology · Laurence Pringle
Behind the Attic Wall
Book 15 of 94 · published 1983 Anthology · Sylvia Cassedy
Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater
Book 16 of 94 · published 1984 Anthology · Bruce Curtis,Stephanie Young
The Jellyfish Season
Book 19 of 94 · published 1985 Anthology · Mary Downing Hahn
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1
Book 20 of 94 · published 1985 Anthology · Andrew Glass,Catherine Edwards Sadler
Get Rich Mitch!
Book 21 of 94 · published 1985 Anthology · Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
Mystery of the Melted Diamonds
Book 22 of 94 · published 1986 Anthology · Carol Farley
Ukrainian Egg Mystery
Book 23 of 94 · published 1986 Anthology · George E. Stanley
Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol
Book 25 of 94 · published 1986 Anthology · Steve Senn
Best Joke Book for Kids 2
Book 28 of 94 · published 1987 Anthology · Joan Eckstein
The Codebreaker Kids
Book 29 of 94 · published 1987 Anthology · George E. Stanley
The Case of the Lost Look-Alike
Book 31 of 94 · published 1988 Anthology · Carol Farley
The Case of the Vanishing Villain
Book 35 of 94 · published 1990 Anthology · Carol Farley
A Haunting in Williamsburg
Book 38 of 94 · published 1990 Anthology · Lou Kassem
The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists
Book 39 of 94 · published 1991 Anthology · Eugenie Allen
Ask Me Anything About the Presidents
Book 40 of 94 · published 1992 Anthology · Louis Phillips
The Adventures of King Midas
Book 41 of 94 · published 1992 Anthology · Lynne Reid Banks
Maria, a Christmas Story
Book 43 of 94 · published 1992 Anthology · Theodore Taylor
Lucie Babbidge's House
Book 44 of 94 · published 1993 Anthology · Sylvia Cassedy
How to Travel Through Time
Book 45 of 94 · published 1993 Anthology · James M. Deem
Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers
Book 48 of 94 · published 1994 Anthology · Mike Thaler
Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble
Book 49 of 94 · published 1994 Anthology · Anne C. Lemieux
Ali Baba Bernstein, Lost and Found
Book 55 of 94 · published 1995 Anthology · Johanna Hurwitz
Harry the Poisonous Centipede
Book 61 of 94 · published 1996 Anthology · Lynne Reid Banks
Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller
Book 62 of 94 · published 1996 Anthology · Septima Green
Four Perfect Pebbles
Book 63 of 94 · published 1996 Anthology · Lila Perl,Marion Blumenthal Lazan
Tracks in the Snow
Book 67 of 94 · published 1997 Anthology · Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Danger Along the Ohio
Book 68 of 94 · published 1997 Anthology · Patricia Willis
Night of the Chupacabras
Book 70 of 94 · published 1998 Pen name · Marie G. Lee
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
Book 72 of 94 · published 1998 Anthology · Anita Lobel
Breakaway
Book 74 of 94 · published 1998 Anthology · Kimberley Griffiths Little
Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me
Book 75 of 94 · published 1998 Anthology · Dawn Knight
It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz
Book 76 of 94 · published 1998 Anthology · Jacqueline Shannon
The Pizza That Time Forgot
Book 80 of 94 · published 1999 Anthology · William DeAndrea,Matthew Deandrea
Love Me, Love My Broccoli
Book 81 of 94 · published 1999 Anthology · Julie Anne Peters
Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters
Book 84 of 94 · published 1999 Anthology · Bruce Coville
A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights
Book 85 of 94 · published 1999 Anthology · Kathleen Krull
Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors
Book 86 of 94 · published 1999 Anthology · Bruce Coville
Death at Devil's Bridge
Book 93 of 94 · published 2000 Anthology · Cynthia C. DeFelice
Alice By Accident
Latest in the series · book 94 of 94 · published 2003 Anthology · Lynne Reid Banks
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Marie Myung-Ok Lee?
Marie is one of just a handful of American journalists that have been granted a visa to North Korea since the Korean War. She was the first Fulbright Scholar to Korea in creative writing and has received many honors for her work, which includes the Best Book Award from the Friends of American Writers, an O. Henry honorable mention, and a New York Foundation for the Arts fiction fellowship.
Which Marie Myung-Ok Lee series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Finding My Voice series, the earliest of Marie Myung-Ok Lee's multi-book series: it opens with Finding My Voice (1992) and runs to 2 books across 1992–1994, ending with Saying Goodbye (1994).
How many books has Marie Myung-Ok Lee written?
Marie Myung-Ok Lee has 225 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1952 and 2025. 217 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being the Finding My Voice series with 2 books — and 8 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Marie Myung-Ok Lee's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Marie Myung-Ok Lee's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Finding My Voice (1992–1994, 2 books).
How are Marie Myung-Ok Lee's books organised into series?
This guide splits Marie Myung-Ok Lee's 225 books into 3 named series and 8 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Finding My Voice (2 books, 1992–1994); Akashic Noir (121 books, 2002–2025); Avon Camelot (94 books, 1952–2003).