Caroline B. Cooney Books In Order
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A Stage Set for Love | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Racing to Love | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Suntanned Days | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Vampire's Promise Books
The Cheerleader / Deadly Offer | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Return of the Vampire / Evil Returns | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Vampire's Promise / Fatal Bargain | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Cheerleaders Books
Trying Out | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rumors | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Betrayed | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Looking Good | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All the Way | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flirting | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pulling Together | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Proving It | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Going Strong | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Staying Together | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spring Fever | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Saying Yes | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Showing Off | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fighting Back | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cheerleaders Special II | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Chrystal Falls Books
Breaking the Rules | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bad and the Beautiful | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Morning After | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Night to Forget | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Saturday Night / Night To Remember Books
Saturday Night | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Last Dance | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New Year's Eve | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Summer Nights | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Losing Christina Books
Fog | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Snow | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fire | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Janie Johnson Books
The Face on the Milk Carton | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Whatever Happened to Janie? | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Voice on the Radio | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What Janie Found | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What Janie Saw | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Janie Face to Face | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Both Sides Of Time/Time Travelers Books
Both Sides of Time | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Out of Time | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Prisoner of Time | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
For All Time | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Safe as the grave | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rear-View Mirror | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Paper Caper | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An April Love Story | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
He Loves Me Not | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Personal Touch | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sand Trap | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nancy & Nick | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Holly in Love | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sun, Sea, and Boys | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nice Girls Don't | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I'm Not Your Other Half | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Don't Blame the Music | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Rah Rah Girl | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Among Friends | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New Year's Eve | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Girl Who Invented Romance | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Camp Girl-Meets-Boy | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Family Reunion | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Summer Love | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twenty Pageants Later | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Party's Over | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Camp Reunion | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Freeze Tag | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Perfume | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flight #116 Is Down! | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Forbidden | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Emergency Room | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Driver's Ed | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Unforgettable | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night School | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flash Fire | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Operation | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wanted! | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Terrorist | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What Child Is This? | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hush Little Baby | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mummy | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Burning Up | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tune in Anytime | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mercy / The Ransom of Mercy Carter | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fatality | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Goddess of Yesterday | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On the Seas to Troy | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Code Orange | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hit the Road | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Friend at Midnight | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Enter Three Witches | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Diamonds in the Shadow | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Night to Remember | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
If the Witness Lied | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Three Black Swans | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
They Never Came Back | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lost Songs | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
No Such Person | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Before She Was Helen | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Grandmother Plot | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wrong Good Deed | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Picture Books
I'm Going to Give You a Bear Hug! | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I'm Going to Give You a Polar Bear Hug | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Horror High Books
Toxic Beauty | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Killer Instinct | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Grave Intentions | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fatal Kiss | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Date with Death | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deadly Rumours | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Point Horror Books
Avalanche | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cheerleader / Deadly Offer | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blind Date | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twisted | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nightmare Man | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lifeguard | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beach House | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Party Line | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Prom Dress | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Baby-Sitter | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Secret Admirer | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
April Fools | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Funhouse | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Beach Party | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Boyfriend | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Foggiest | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Baby-Sitter II | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Snowman | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Accident | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thirteen Tales of Horror | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sister Dearest | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Girlfriend | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Freeze Tag | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Window | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fatal Secrets | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Perfume | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Invitation | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mirror, Mirror | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fever | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hit And Run | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Train | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ripper | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cemetery | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Waitress | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Halloween Night | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dream Date | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Baby-Sitter 3 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dead Girlfriend | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hitchhiker | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Phantom | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Stranger | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Yearbook | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twins | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hunter | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silent Witness | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Call Waiting | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Watcher | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thirteen More Tales of Horror | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Halloween Night II | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Chase | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Diary / Let Me Tell You how I Died | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Saw You That Night! | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Kill | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Witness | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Driver's Dead | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Camp Fear | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night School | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Babysitter IV | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Boy Next Door | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Body | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Mummy | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Surfer | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thirteen Again | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hide and Seek | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Blood Curse | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Claw | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Amnesia | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Spring Break | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Stalker | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Prom Date | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bride | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sweet Sixteen | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Double Date | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Second Sight | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Homecoming Queen | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
X-Isle | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Demon | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark 2 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Return to X-Isle | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Defriended | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Identity Theft | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wickedpedia | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark: v. 1 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Point Horror Series may be missing books or out of order because every online source for these lists these books in a different order and varies on the books included. In no other listing are the books numbered. Compilations and Short Story Collections are listed at the bottom.Point Horror Unleashed & Mutant Point Horror & Nightmare Hall are spinoffs of this series |
Publication Order of Readers Circle Books
Counting Stars | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Secret Heart | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dr. Franklin's Island | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Walking Naked | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Becoming Mary Mehan | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Acceleration | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cuba 15 | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Clay | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Am the Wallpaper | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Code Orange | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crushed | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Wildfire Books
The Summer of the Sky-Blue Bikini | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
That's My Girl | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Kiss for Tomorrow | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Friends | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dreams Can Come True | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An April Love Story | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
He Loves Me Not | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Searching Heart | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Senior Class | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cindy | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Christy's Choice | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Boy For Me | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nancy & Nick | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Make a Wish | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Saturday Night Date | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Holly in Love | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Christy's Senior Year | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Call Me | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nice Girls Don't | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Miss Perfect | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Christy's Love | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Boy Next Door | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Loving That O'Connor Boy | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love to the Rescue | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Senior Dreams Can Come True | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Girl Named Summer | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dating Blues | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brian's Girl | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Secret Love | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sixteen Can Be Sweet | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Caroline B. Cooney is an American author that writes young adult novels. Cooney has written books in a variety of genres from suspense to mystery and even romance. Cooney imputes her success to the fact that she knows what young people like to read.
+Biography
Caroline B. Cooney was born in 1947 in Geneva, NY, though most of her childhood was spent in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Caroline has always been a happy person. People often took to calling her shallow. They told her that if she just gave some thought to the deeper things of the world, her perspective would get grimmer.
However, Caroline never saw any reason to follow that particular bit of advice. And she believes that her happy persona helps her craft the sorts of stories that entice young readers.
The author knew fairly early on that she wanted to make a living as a writer. Caroline was an ambitious child. She loved school and she participated in as many activities as was possible.
That ambition extended to reading and saw the author experiment with everything from the Hardy Boys to Cherry Ames.
When she was in 6th grade, all those jumbled and confused hopes and dreams of a future in published came into focus. Caroline had the pleasure of being taught by Mr. Albert, a wonderful teacher that all the girls loved and the boys wanted to imitate.
Albert loved to write and so he set out to nurture that same love in his students. He would take random pages from The New Yorker, pass them around to his students and then task each of them with writing a short story based on whatever their particular page of The New Yorker said.
The activity forced the gears in Caroline B. Cooney’s head to start turning. She took to the art of making things up with a passion. That fed into her desire for books and it wasn’t long before she was spending endless hours of her week in the library, drawn in by all the people and the books.
Writing has been a part of Caroline’s life since then, and she is grateful. Between the years of 1965 and 1968, the author attended Indiana University, Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing, and University of Connecticut.
And those are just the colleges that stood out. Caroline developed a habit where she would order herself to go back to school to get her degree. And she would follow through with that order, going so far as to join a college and attend a few classes.
However, none of those attempts ever bore fruit. Caroline never got her degree. For that reason, she is fortunate to have a writing career that she can fall back on.
The author started writing professionally in college. At first, she produced simple stories that she sold to ‘Seventeen Magazine’. Success in that arena drove her to dream bigger and it wasn’t long before she took to writing books.
The satisfactory results confirmed Caroline’s earlier beliefs that she was destined to write fiction. The author has never understood suggestions that writing is difficult. She enjoys every aspect of the process.
She loves creating plots and characters and bringing the various threads of a story together to produce a complete novel.
The author has always looked to her three children for inspiration. Not only does listening to their stories get Caroline’s creative juices flowing but she has also admitted to using them in her stories.
The author also loves visiting schools. On the one hand, she gets to meet her readers. She loves hearing how her books have impacted young minds and possibly even drawn a few of them into the reading culture.
Schools also provide an insightful picture of the United States because they are populated by children from a variety of backgrounds.
On the other hand, interacting with school kids allows Caroline B. Cooney to make her stories as realistic as possible. By getting immersed in the lives of teenagers, Caroline believes she is better placed than most to write novels that effectively speak to them.
Even though the author writes for children, she doesn’t want to pander to them or even talk down to them. Her goal is to deliver thought-provoking content that resonates with teenagers.
When Caroline isn’t reading or writing or visiting schools, you can find her playing the piano in school productions. She also volunteers at a hospital.
+The Face on the Milk Carton
Janie is fifteen-years-old and her world is breaking. It all begins when she notices the picture of a girl on a milk carton. The girl was three-years-old when she went missing. That was twelve years ago.
She disappeared from a Shopping Mall in New Jersey and she was never found.
Janie has good reason to believe that she is that girl. For one thing, the picture looks a lot like her. More importantly, there are no pictures of Janie from before she was four. Her parents always claimed that they did not have a camera during those early years.
But now Janie doesn’t think that excuse makes much sense. She doesn’t want to believe that her loving parents kidnapped her. But the evidence suggests otherwise. Janie must decide whether she is ready to find out what happened twelve years ago.
The first book in the Janie Johnson series follows the exploits of a girl who doesn’t know where she belongs. She spends this book trying to investigate her origins without revealing her suspicions to her parents.
+Whatever Happened to Janie?
There are so many faces of missing kids on milk cartons that no one ever pays attention to them. Janie never intended to find the picture of the girl she knew to be her. But once she saw that picture and realized that her parents might have kidnapped her, there was no going back.
Now Janie’s world has turned upside down. A call for justice has been made but no one knows who is to blame for the unfolding fiasco. Janie must decide where she belongs and which set of parents she should run to.
The second book in the Janie Johnson series picks up with Janie learning how she ended up in the Johnson household. She also gets to know her real family.
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