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ⓘ About Megan McDonald
Megan McDonald is American author of children books. She is famously known for her series of books which focus on Judy Moody, a third-grade girl. The series is written for grade three and four. The author has also written lots of picture books for younger children and continues to write. McDonald was born 1959 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Mary Louise and John McDonald. She is the youngest of five girls, and this served as her inspiration for The Sisters Club. She graduated with a B.A degree in 1981 from Oberlin College and in 1985 she graduated with an M.L.S from University of Pittsburgh. She started her career as a children’s librarian, working for Adams Memorial Library, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and Minneapolis Public Library.
All Book Series by Megan McDonald
Judy Moody: In a Monday Mood
Latest in the series · book 16 of 16 · published 2021
Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
Series opener · book 1 of 5 · published 2011
Judy Moody's Thrill-A-Delic Hunt for Bigfoot
Latest in the series · book 5 of 5 · published 2011
Judy Moody's Mini-Mysteries and Other Sneaky Stuff for Super-Sleuths
Single-title series · published 2012
Judy Moody's Double-Rare Way-Not-Boring Book of Fun Stuff to Do
Series opener · book 1 of 4 · published 2001
Judy Moody's Way Wacky Uber Awesome Book of More Fun Stuff to Do
Book 3 of 4 · published 2010
Judy Moody's Best Mood Ever: Coloring and Activity Book
Latest in the series · book 4 of 4 · published 2011
Cloudy with a Chance of Boys
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2011
Zelda and Ivy
Series opener · book 1 of 46 · published 1998 Anthology · Laura McGee Kvasnosky
Zelda and Ivy and the Boy Next Door
Book 2 of 46 · published 1999 Anthology · Laura McGee Kvasnosky
Zelda and Ivy: One Christmas
Book 3 of 46 · published 2000 Anthology · Laura McGee Kvasnosky
Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways
Book 7 of 46 · published 2006 Anthology · Laura McGee Kvasnosky
The Monster in the Backpack
Book 8 of 46 · published 2006 Anthology · Noah Z. Jones,Lisa Moser
Squirrel's World
Book 9 of 46 · published 2007 Anthology · Valeri Gorbachev,Lisa Moser
Houndsley and Catina and the Quiet Time
Book 12 of 46 · published 2008 Anthology · Marie-Louise Gay
Houndsley and Catina and the Birthday Surprise
Book 13 of 46 · published 2008 Anthology · James Howe,Marie-Louise Gay
Zelda and Ivy: Keeping Secrets
Book 14 of 46 · published 2009 Anthology · Laura McGee Kvasnosky
Joe and Sparky Get New Wheels: Candlewick Sparks
Book 15 of 46 · published 2009 Anthology · Frank Remkiewicz,Jamie Michalak
Zelda and Ivy: The Big Picture
Book 17 of 46 · published 2010 Anthology · Laura McGee Kvasnosky
Joe and Sparky, Superstars!
Book 18 of 46 · published 2011 Anthology · Frank Remkiewicz,Jamie Michalak
Houndsley and Catina Plink and Plunk
Book 19 of 46 · published 2011 Anthology · James Howe,Marie-Louise Gay
Monkey and Elephant Get Better
Book 21 of 46 · published 2013 Anthology · Carole Lexa Schaefer
Joe And Sparky Get New Wheels
Book 23 of 46 · published 2013 Anthology · Frank Remkiewicz,Jamie Michalak
Bramble and Maggie: Horse Meets Girl
Book 24 of 46 · published 2013 Anthology · Jessie Haas
Annie and Simon: The Sneeze and Other Stories
Book 25 of 46 · published 2013 Anthology · Catharine O'Neill
Squirrel's Fun Day
Book 26 of 46 · published 2013 Anthology · Valeri Gorbachev,Lisa Moser
Joe and Sparky Go to School
Book 27 of 46 · published 2013 Anthology · Frank Remkiewicz,Jamie Michalak
Ant and Honey Bee: A Pair of Friends at Halloween
Book 28 of 46 · published 2013
Rabbit And Robot: The Sleepover
Book 30 of 46 · published 2014 Anthology · Cece Bell
Monkey and Elephant Go Gadding
Book 31 of 46 · published 2014 Anthology · Carole Lexa Schaefer
Poppy the Pirate Dog and the Missing Treasure
Book 34 of 46 · published 2015 Anthology · Liz Kessler
Monkey and Elephant and a Secret Birthday Surprise
Book 35 of 46 · published 2015 Anthology · Carole Lexa Schaefer
Monkey and Elephant and the Babysitting Adventure
Book 36 of 46 · published 2016 Anthology · Carole Lexa Schaefer
Rabbit and Robot and Ribbit
Book 37 of 46 · published 2016 Anthology · Cece Bell
Joe and Sparky, Party Animals!
Book 38 of 46 · published 2017 Anthology · Jamie Michalak
Bramble and Maggie: Snow Day
Book 39 of 46 · published 2017 Anthology · Jessie Haas,Alison Friend
Frank and Bean
Book 41 of 46 · published 2019 Anthology · Bob Kolar,Jamie Michalak
Fergus and Zeke and the Field Day Challenge
Book 42 of 46 · published 2020 Anthology · Kate Messner
Frank and Bean: Food Truck Fiasco
Book 43 of 46 · published 2022 Anthology · Bob Kolar,Jamie Michalak
Fergus and Zeke at the Science Fair
Book 44 of 46 · published 2022 Anthology · Kate Messner
Fergus and Zeke for President
Book 45 of 46 · published 2023 Anthology · Kate Messner
The Cave and Other Stories
Latest in the series · book 46 of 46 · published 2025 Anthology · Jarvis
Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid
Series opener · book 1 of 14 · published 2005
Stink and the Incredible Super-Galactic Jawbreaker
Book 2 of 14 · published 2006
Stink: Superhero Superfan
Latest in the series · book 14 of 14 · published 2023
Stink it Up!: A Guide to the Gross, the Bad, and the Smelly
Single-title series · published 2013
The Grand-Slam Book-Bowl Jam
Latest in the series · book 5 of 5 · published 2016
Super Stink-y Stuff from A to Zzzzz
Series opener · book 1 of 2 · published 2008
More Super-Stink-y Stuff from A to Z
Latest in the series · book 2 of 2 · published 2010
Judy Moody and the Missing Mood Ring
Latest in the series · book 13 of 13 · published 2022
Daisy Jane, Best-Ever Flower Girl
Latest in the series · book 7 of 7 · published 2007
When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864
Series opener · book 1 of 44 · published 1996 Anthology · Barry Denenberg
A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
Book 2 of 44 · published 1996 Anthology · Kathryn Lasky
Winter Of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary Of Abigail Jane Stewart
Book 3 of 44 · published 1996 Anthology · Kristiana Gregory
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865
Book 4 of 44 · published 1997 Anthology · Joyce Hansen
A Picture Of Freedom
Book 5 of 44 · published 1997 Anthology · Patricia McKissack
Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941
Book 6 of 44 · published 1998 Anthology · Barry Denenberg
Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903
Book 7 of 44 · published 1998 Anthology · Kathryn Lasky
West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi
Book 8 of 44 · published 1998 Anthology · Jim Murphy
Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763
Book 9 of 44 · published 1998 Anthology · Mary Pope Osborne
A Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence
Book 10 of 44 · published 1998 Anthology · Sherry Garland
Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic 1912
Book 12 of 44 · published 1998 Anthology · Ellen Emerson White
The Great Railroad Race: The Diary of Libby West, Utah Territory 1868
Book 13 of 44 · published 1999 Anthology · Kristiana Gregory
My Heart is on the Ground
Book 14 of 44 · published 1999 Anthology · Ann Rinaldi
The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl
Book 15 of 44 · published 1999 Anthology · Ann Turner
A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin
Book 16 of 44 · published 1999 Anthology · Karen Hesse
Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North
Book 17 of 44 · published 2000 Anthology · Patricia McKissack
A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896
Book 18 of 44 · published 2000 Anthology · Susan Campbell Bartoletti
My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941
Book 19 of 44 · published 2000 Anthology · Mary Pope Osborne
One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria to New York 1938
Book 20 of 44 · published 2000 Anthology · Barry Denenberg
Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana 1932
Book 21 of 44 · published 2001 Anthology · Kathryn Lasky
Valley of the Moon: The Diary of María Rosalía de Milagros, Sonoma Valley, Alta Valley, California, 1846,
Book 22 of 44 · published 2001 Anthology · Sherry Garland
Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory 1849
Book 23 of 44 · published 2001 Anthology · Kristiana Gregory
My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher, Broken Bow, Nebraska 1881
Book 24 of 44 · published 2001 Anthology · Jim Murphy
When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer
Book 25 of 44 · published 2002 Anthology · Beth Seidel Levine
My Secret War : The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck
Book 26 of 44 · published 2002 Anthology · Kathryn Lasky
A Time for Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C. 1917
Book 27 of 44 · published 2002 Anthology · Kathryn Lasky
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Book 28 of 44 · published 2002 Anthology · Ellen Emerson White
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan, The Perkins School for the Blind, 1932
Book 29 of 44 · published 2002 Anthology · Barry Denenberg
Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards, Dalhart, Texas 1935
Book 30 of 44 · published 2002 Anthology · Katelan Janke
So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847
Book 31 of 44 · published 2003 Anthology · Barry Denenberg
Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson
Book 32 of 44 · published 2003 Anthology · Ann Turner
Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota
Book 33 of 44 · published 2003 Anthology · Marion Dane Bauer
Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl, New York Colony 1763
Book 35 of 44 · published 2004 Anthology · Patricia McKissack
Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909
Book 36 of 44 · published 2004 Anthology · Deborah Hopkinson
I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1691
Book 37 of 44 · published 2004 Anthology · Lisa Rowe Fraustino
The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941
Book 38 of 44 · published 2010 Anthology · Kirby Larson
With the Might of Angels: The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley, Virginia, 1954
Book 41 of 44 · published 2011 Anthology · Andrea Davis Pinkney
Behind the Masks: The Diary of Angeline Reddy, Bodie, California, 1880
Book 42 of 44 · published 2012 Anthology · Susan Patron
Down the Rabbit Hole, Chicago, Illinois, 1871: The Diary of Pringle Rose
Book 43 of 44 · published 2013 Anthology · Susan Campbell Bartoletti
A City Tossed and Broken: The Diary of Minnie Bonner, San Francisco, California, 1906
Latest in the series · book 44 of 44 · published 2013 Anthology · Judy Blundell
Hoofbeats of Danger
Series opener · book 1 of 22 · published 1999 Anthology · Holly Hughes
Trouble at Fort Lapointe
Book 2 of 22 · published 1999 Anthology · Kathleen Ernst
The Night Flyers
Book 3 of 22 · published 1999 Anthology · Elizabeth McDavid Jones
Secrets on 26th Street
Book 4 of 22 · published 1999 Anthology · Elizabeth McDavid Jones
The Smuggler's Treasure
Book 5 of 22 · published 1999 Anthology · Sarah Masters Buckey
Voices at Whisper Bend
Book 6 of 22 · published 1999 Anthology · Katherine Ayres
Mystery of the Dark Tower
Book 7 of 22 · published 2000 Anthology · Evelyn Coleman
Watcher in the Piney Woods
Book 8 of 22 · published 2000 Anthology · Elizabeth McDavid Jones
The Minstrel's Melody
Book 11 of 22 · published 2001 Anthology · Eleanora E. Tate
Enemy in the Fort
Book 12 of 22 · published 2001 Anthology · Sarah Masters Buckey
Mystery on Skull Island
Book 14 of 22 · published 2001 Anthology · Elizabeth McDavid Jones
Riddle of the Prairie Bride
Book 15 of 22 · published 2001 Anthology · Kathryn Reiss
Mystery at Chilkoot Pass
Book 17 of 22 · published 2002 Anthology · Barbara Steiner
The Strange Case of Baby H
Book 18 of 22 · published 2002 Anthology · Kathryn Reiss
Gangsters at the Grand Atlantic
Book 19 of 22 · published 2003 Anthology · Sarah Masters Buckey
Danger at the Wild West Show
Book 20 of 22 · published 2003 Anthology · Alison Hart
Ghost Light on Graveyard Shoal
Book 21 of 22 · published 2003 Anthology · Elizabeth McDavid Jones
Betrayal at Cross Creek
Latest in the series · book 22 of 22 · published 2004 Anthology · Kathleen Ernst
The Tangled Web: A Julie Mystery
Book 7 of 11 · published 2009 Anthology · Kathryn Reiss
The Puzzle of the Paper Daughter: A Julie Mystery
Book 8 of 11 · published 2010 Anthology · Kathryn Reiss
The Silver Guitar: A Julie Mystery
Book 9 of 11 · published 2011 Anthology · Kathryn Reiss
Lost in the City: A Julie Mystery
Book 10 of 11 · published 2013 Anthology · Sergio Geovine,Kathleen O'Dell
Message in a Bottle: A Julie Mystery
Latest in the series · book 11 of 11 · published 2017 Anthology · Juliana Kolesova,Kathryn Reiss
Kaya: An American Girl- 1764
Series opener · book 1 of 16 · published 2000 Anthology · Janet Beeler Shaw
A Heart Full of Hope
Book 3 of 16 · published 2014 Anthology · Juliana Kolesova,Michael Dworkin,Connie Rose Porter
No Ordinary Sound
Book 7 of 16 · published 2016 Anthology · Denise Lewis Patrick
Never Stop Singing
Book 8 of 16 · published 2016 Anthology · Denise Lewis Patrick
Rebecca: The Sound of Applause
Book 10 of 16 · published 2019 Anthology · Jacqueline Dembar Greene
Rebecca: Lights, Camera, Rebecca!
Book 11 of 16 · published 2019 Anthology · Jacqueline Dembar Greene
Courtney Changes the Game
Book 12 of 16 · published 2020 Anthology · Kellen Hertz
Meet Isabel and Nicki
Latest in the series · book 16 of 16 · published 2023 Anthology · Julia DeVillers,Jennifer Roy
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Megan McDonald?
Megan McDonald is American author of children books. She is famously known for her series of books which focus on Judy Moody, a third-grade girl. The series is written for grade three and four.
Which Megan McDonald series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Beezy series, the earliest of Megan McDonald's multi-book series: it opens with Beezy (1997) and runs to 4 books across 1997–2000, ending with Beezy and Funnybone (2000). Megan McDonald's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Megan McDonald written?
Megan McDonald has 235 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1990 and 2025. 207 of them belong to 16 named series — the largest being the Candlewick Sparks series with 46 books — and 28 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Megan McDonald's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Megan McDonald's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Beezy (1997–2000, 4 books), Candlewick Sparks (1998–2025, 46 books) and American Girl: History Mysteries (1999–2004, 22 books), plus 12 more.
How are Megan McDonald's books organised into series?
This guide splits Megan McDonald's 235 books into 16 named series and 28 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Candlewick Sparks (46 books, 1998–2025); American Girl: History Mysteries (22 books, 1999–2004); Judy Moody (16 books, 2000–2021); American Girl Historical Characters (16 books, 2000–2023); Stink (14 books, 2005–2023), plus 11 further series.