Susan Beth Pfeffer

Susan Beth Pfeffer is a bestselling young adult, young adult romance, and young adult fantasy fiction author from New York. Pfeffer was born in New York City in 1948 and lived with her family in Queens before they moved to Long Island. She had the opportunity to live outside the bustling center of New York but still traveled frequently enough with her mother to the city making for the perfect environmental childhood.

The best place to start is the Make Me a Star series, the earliest of Susan Beth Pfeffer's multi-book series: it opens with Prime Time (1985) and runs to 6 books across 1985–1988, ending with Take Two and...Rolling! (1988). Susan Beth Pfeffer's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Susan Beth Pfeffer has 80 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1970 and 2013. 37 of them belong to 8 named series — the largest being the Portraits of Little Women series with 14 books — and 43 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. Susan Beth Pfeffer's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Kid Power (1977–1984, 2 books), Make Me a Star (1985–1988, 6 books) and Perfect Image (1986–1988, 2 books), plus 5 more.

This guide splits Susan Beth Pfeffer's 80 books into 8 named series and 43 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Portraits of Little Women (14 books, 1997–2000); Make Me a Star (6 books, 1985–1988); The Sebastian Sisters (5 books, 1988–1990); Last Survivors (4 books, 2006–2013); April and Darcy (2 books, 1990), plus 3 further series.