Richard Peck

Richard Peck is an award winning young adult novelist that is famously a winner of the Newberry Medal. He was born in Decatur, Illinois, which he believed was the epitome of Middle America. As a child, he was surrounded by elders of all ages as his mother was one of seven siblings while his grandma also had many sisters.

The best place to start is the Blossom Culp series, the earliest of Richard Peck's multi-book series: it opens with The Ghost Belonged to Me (1975) and runs to 4 books across 1975–1986, ending with Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death (1986). Richard Peck's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Richard Peck has 59 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1923 and 2021. 9 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being the Blossom Culp series with 4 books — and 50 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. Richard Peck's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Blossom Culp (1975–1986, 4 books), Lost in Cyberspace (1995–1996, 2 books) and A Long Way from Chicago (1998–2009, 3 books).

This guide splits Richard Peck's 59 books into 3 named series and 50 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Blossom Culp (4 books, 1975–1986); A Long Way from Chicago (3 books, 1998–2009); Lost in Cyberspace (2 books, 1995–1996).