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Will Hobbs Books in Order
Will Hobbs is a celebrated author of seventeen novels for upper elementary, middle school, and young adult readers, as well as two picture book stories. His works, including Bearstone, Downriver, The Big Wander, Beardance, Far North, The Maze, and Jason's Gold, have been named Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association. Notably, ALA also included Far North and Downriver in their list of the 100 Best Young Adult Books of the 20th Century. Hobbs' novel, Ghost Canoe, received the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1998 for Best Young Adult Mystery. Through his outdoor stories, Hobbs empowers readers to discover wild places, form connections with diverse characters, and make meaningful life choices. A Stanford University graduate and former reading and language arts teacher, Will has been a full-time writer since 1990. He resides in Durango, Colorado, with his wife, Jean. His books have garnered numerous awards, including the California Young Reader Medal, the Western Writers of America Spur Award, and the Colorado Book Award, with nominations from over thirty states.
Bibliography verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of Will Hobbs's book series? Will Hobbs has written 6 book series. The most notable is the Avon Camelot series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by Will Hobbs
- #1
Lottie & Lisa (By: Erich Kastner)(1952) - #2
Summerdog Comes Home (By: George Albert Zabriskie)(1980) - #3
A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher (By: Mike Thaler)(1981) - #4
Baseball Fever (By: Ray Cruz,Johanna Hurwitz)(1981) - #5
The Trouble with Tuck (By: Theodore Taylor)(1981) - #6
Irma and Jerry (By: George Selden)(1982) - #7
Basic Fun (By: Susan Drake Lipscomb,Margaret Ann Zusnich)(1982) - #8
Esp McGee (By: Edward Packard)(1983) - #9
Tunnel to Yesterday (By: Jerome Beatty Jr.)(1983) - #10
Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You (By: Vicki Cobb)(1983) - #11
Rich Mitch (By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)(1983) - #12
Summerdog (By: Thom Roberts)(1983) - #13
Bet You Can't! (By: Kathy Darling,Vicki Cobb)(1983) - #14
The Earth is Flat--And Other Great Mistakes (By: Laurence Pringle)(1983) - #15
Behind the Attic Wall (By: Sylvia Cassedy)(1983) - #16
Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater (By: Bruce Curtis,Stephanie Young)(1984) - #17
Gremlins (By: George Gipe)(1984) - #18
Maura's Angel (By: Lynne Reid Banks)(1984) - #19
The Jellyfish Season (By: Mary Downing Hahn)(1985) - #20
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1 (By: Andrew Glass,Catherine Edwards Sadler)(1985) - #21
Get Rich Mitch! (By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)(1985) - #22
Mystery of the Melted Diamonds (By: Carol Farley)(1986) - #23
Ukrainian Egg Mystery (By: George E. Stanley)(1986) - #24
Moroccan Mystery (By: Thomas McKean)(1986) - #25
Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol (By: Steve Senn)(1986) - #26
Flash Fry, Private Eye (By: Tim Schoch)(1986) - #27
The Anti-Peggy Plot (By: Thomas McKean)(1986) - #28
Best Joke Book for Kids 2 (By: Joan Eckstein)(1987) - #29
The Codebreaker Kids (By: George E. Stanley)(1987) - #30
Summer Camp Creeps (By: Tim Schoch)(1987) - #31
The Case of the Lost Look-Alike (By: Carol Farley)(1988) - #32
Breezy (By: Leda Blumberg)(1988) - #33
Racing the Sun (By: Paul Pitts)(1988) - #34
Anne Frank (By: Johanna Hurwitz)(1989) - #35
The Case of the Vanishing Villain (By: Carol Farley)(1990) - #36
Something Upstairs (By: C.S. Adler)(1990) - #37
Ghost Brother (By: C.S. Adler)(1990) - #38
A Haunting in Williamsburg (By: Lou Kassem)(1990) - #39
The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists (By: Eugenie Allen)(1991) - #40
Ask Me Anything About the Presidents (By: Louis Phillips)(1992) - #41
The Adventures of King Midas (By: Lynne Reid Banks)(1992) - #42
Tons of Trash (By: Joan Rattner Heilman)(1992) - #43
Maria, a Christmas Story (By: Theodore Taylor)(1992) - #44
How to Travel Through Time (By: James M. Deem)(1993) - #45
Lucie Babbidge's House (By: Sylvia Cassedy)(1993) - #46
Beardance(1993) - #47
Christmas Countdown (By: Steve Englehart)(1993) - #48
Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers (By: Mike Thaler)(1994) - #49
The Mummy's Curse (By: Daniel Cohen)(1994) - #50
Lemonade Days (By: Susan Kirby)(1994) - #51
Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble (By: Anne C. Lemieux)(1994) - #52
Main Street (By: Susan Kirby)(1994) - #53
Comet Luck (By: Madge Harrah)(1994) - #54
Home Front Hero (By: Susan Kirby)(1994) - #55
Ali Baba Bernstein, Lost and Found (By: Johanna Hurwitz)(1995) - #56
Kwanzaa (By: Mildred Pitts Walter)(1995) - #57
Goodbye, Desert Rose (By: Susan Kirby)(1995) - #58
Vampire Mom (By: Don Whittington)(1995) - #59
My Own Two Feet (By: Beverly Cleary)(1995) - #60
Spookhouse (By: Don Whittington)(1995) - #61
Harry the Poisonous Centipede (By: Lynne Reid Banks)(1996) - #62
Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller (By: Septima Green)(1996) - #63
Four Perfect Pebbles (By: Lila Perl,Marion Blumenthal Lazan)(1996) - #64
Zombie Queen (By: Don Whittington)(1996) - #65
Freak Show (By: Don Whittington)(1996) - #66
Going to Net (By: Various)(1996) - #67
Tracks in the Snow (By: Lucy Jane Bledsoe)(1997) - #68
Danger Along the Ohio (By: Patricia Willis)(1997) - #69
Lasting Echoes (By: Joseph Bruchac)(1997) - #70
Night of the Chupacabras (By: Marie G. Lee)(1998) - #71
As Ever, Gordy (By: Mary Downing Hahn)(1998) - #72
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (By: Anita Lobel)(1998) - #73
Becoming Felix (By: Nancy Hope Wilson)(1998) - #74
Breakaway (By: Kimberley Griffiths Little)(1998) - #75
Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me (By: Dawn Knight)(1998) - #76
It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz (By: Jacqueline Shannon)(1998) - #77
Leaving Summer (By: Donal Harding)(1998) - #78
Flea Circus Summer (By: Cheryl Ware)(1998) - #79
Calling Me Home (By: Patricia Hermes)(1998) - #80
The Pizza That Time Forgot (By: William DeAndrea,Matthew Deandrea)(1999) - #81
Love Me, Love My Broccoli (By: Julie Anne Peters)(1999) - #82
Get on the Net (By: Robert Pondiscio)(1999) - #83
Don't Try This at Home! (By: Vicki Cobb)(1999) - #84
Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters (By: Bruce Coville)(1999) - #85
A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights (By: Kathleen Krull)(1999) - #86
Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors (By: Bruce Coville)(1999) - #87
Green Mango Magic (By: Sylvie Hossack)(1999) - #88
All the Answers (By: Anne C. Lemieux)(2000) - #89
Can of Worms (By: Kathy MacKel)(2000) - #90
Orphan Journey Home (By: Liza Ketchum)(2000) - #91Bearstone(2000)
- #92
Alice-by-Accident (By: Lynne Reid Banks)(2000) - #93
Death at Devil's Bridge (By: Cynthia C. DeFelice)(2000) - #94
Alice By Accident (By: Lynne Reid Banks)(2003)
- #1Bearstone(1989)
- #2Beardance(1993)
- #1Jason's Gold(1999)
- #2Down the Yukon(2001)
- #1
Downriver(1991) - #2
River Thunder(1997) - #3
Bearstone And Other Selected Works(1998)
- #1Changes in Latitudes(1988)
- #2The Big Wander(1992)
- #3Kokopelli's Flute(1995)
- #4Far North(1996)
- #5Ghost Canoe(1997)
- #6The Maze(1998)
- #7Wild Man Island(2002)
- #8Jackie's Wild Seattle(2003)
- #9Leaving Protection(2004)
- #10Crossing the Wire(2006)
- #11
Go Big or Go Home(2008) - #12
Take Me to the River(2010) - #13
Never Say Die(2013) - #14
City of Gold(2020)
- #1
Beardream(1997) - #2
Howling Hill(1998)
About Will Hobbs
Will Hobbs is a celebrated author of seventeen novels for upper elementary, middle school, and young adult readers, as well as two picture book stories. His works, including Bearstone, Downriver, The Big Wander, Beardance, Far North, The Maze, and Jason's Gold, have been named Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association. Notably, ALA also included Far North and Downriver in their list of the 100 Best Young Adult Books of the 20th Century. Hobbs' novel, Ghost Canoe, received the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1998 for Best Young Adult Mystery. Through his outdoor stories, Hobbs empowers readers to discover wild places, form connections with diverse characters, and make meaningful life choices. A Stanford University graduate and former reading and language arts teacher, Will has been a full-time writer since 1990. He resides in Durango, Colorado, with his wife, Jean. His books have garnered numerous awards, including the California Young Reader Medal, the Western Writers of America Spur Award, and the Colorado Book Award, with nominations from over thirty states.
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