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Some works in a series can stand alone—they can be read in any order, as each book makes few, if any, reference to past events, and the characters seldom, if ever, change. Many of these series books may be published in a numbered series. Examples of such series are works like The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and Nick Carter.
These books, together with Baum's original fourteen novels, form the "Famous Forty", and are considered the canonical books of the series. [2] Ruth Plumly Thompson's style was markedly different from Baum's. Her tales harked back to more traditional fairy tales. She often included a small kingdom, with a prince or princess who saves his or her ...
Goosebumps is a series of children's horror fiction novellas by R. L. Stine. 62 books were published under the Goosebumps umbrella title from 1992 to 1997; the first was Welcome to Dead House; the last was Monster Blood IV. The cover illustrations for this series was done primarily by Tim Jacobus. [1]
With a Percy Jackson TV series airing on Disney+, kids who want to follow along with the books can read the Percy Jackson books in order, plus two more series.
The Maze Runner is a series of young adult dystopian science fiction novels written by American author James Dashner. [1] [2] The series consists of The Maze Runner (2009), The Scorch Trials (2010) and The Death Cure (2011), as well as two prequel novels, The Kill Order (2012) and The Fever Code (2016), a novella titled Crank Palace (2020), and a companion book titled The Maze Runner Files ...
The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, [2] and the sequence gets its name from the second novel in the series, The Dark Is Rising. The Dark Is Rising Sequence is used as an overarching title in several omnibus, boxed-set, and coordinated editions; but the title of The Dark Is Rising ...
There are about 80 illustrations in each book — one on almost every page, and always one for each sidebar. The large heads were inspired by the caricatures that used to be drawn for the weekly cover of the New York Times Book Review. Some books include those for famous people like Stevie Wonder, Ronald Reagan and Jeff Kinney. [15]
Donna Parker is the protagonist of an eponymous seven-volume book series for girls that was written by Marcia Levin under the pseudonym Marcia Martin from the 1950s through the 1960s. First published by Whitman from 1957 through 1964 in thick glossy picture cover editions, the series was revamped with new cover art in the late 1960s and then ...