>> Popular Book Series

One of the best ways to get a child or teen hooked on reading is a book series. The following list is arranged by grade level. All of the series have at least three books and several of them (such as the "Alice" series) have almost two dozen.

I am grateful to the following librarians who compiled this book list:
Daniel Bradford
-- Foothill High School Library, Pleasanton, California
Linda Keating, Gail Orwig, Kay Lingo and Karen Pacheco
-- Fremont, California Main Library
Chris Spitzel and Kathy Maio
-- Pleasanton, California Public Library
Rob Spitzel
-- Hayward, California Public Library

K-1:
-- Frog and Toad series by Lobel, Arnold
-- Berenstain Bears by Berenstain, Stan
-- Amelia Bedelia by Parish, Peggy
-- Commander Toad by Yolen, Jane
-- Mr. Putter and Tabby by Rylant, Cynthia
-- Henry and Mudge by Rylant, Cynthia
-- Golly Sisters by Byars, Betsy
-- Poppleton by Cynthia Rylant

Grades 2-3:
-- Kids At Polk Street School by Giff, Patricia
-- Miss Mallard mysteries by Quackenbush, Robert
-- Magic Tree House by Osborne, Mary Pope
-- Bailey School Kids by Dadey, Debbie
-- Hank the Cowdog by Erickson, John
-- Junie B. Jones by Park, Barbara
-- A-Z Mysteries by Ron Roy
-- Cam Jansen Adventures by David A. Adler
-- Cobble Street Cousins by Cynthia Rylant
-- Cul de Sac Kids by Beverly Lewis
-- Dragon Slayer's Academy by Kate McMullan
-- Horrible Harry by Suzy Kline
-- Jigsaw Jones Mysteries by James Preller
-- Nancy Drew Notebooks by Carolyn Keene
-- Scrappers by Dean Hughes
-- Secrets of Droon by Tony Abbott
-- My Father's Dragon trilogy by Ruth Stiles Gannett
-- Unicorn's Secret by Kathleen Duey
-- Zack Files by Dan Greenburg

Grades 4-6:
-- Redwall series by Jacques, Brian
-- Chronicles of Narnia by Lewis, C. S.
-- Captain Underpants by Pilkey, Dav
-- Little House on the Prairie by Wilder, Laura Ingalls
-- Series of Unfortunate Events by Snicket, Lemony
-- Anastasia Krupnik by Lowry, Lois
-- Seventh Tower by Nix, Garth
-- Prydain Chronicles by Alexander, Lloyd
-- Amber Brown by Paula Danziger
-- Animal Ark by Ben Baglio
-- Animorphs by Katherine Applegate
-- Chet Gecko Mysteries by Bruce Hale
-- Fudge series by Judy Blume
-- Judy Moody by Megan McDonald
-- Ramona series by Beverly Cleary
-- Replica by Marilyn Kaye
-- Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
-- Time Warp Trio by Jon Scieszka

Junior High/Middle School
-- Alex Rider Adventures by Anthony Horowitz
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
-- Island trilogy by Gordon Korman
-- P.C. Hawke Mysteries by Paul Zindel
-- "Alice" series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
-- "Among the Hidden" series by Margaret Haddix
-- "California Diaries" series by Ann Martin
-- "Danger.com" series by Jordan Cray
-- "Dark Is Rising" series by Susan Cooper
-- "Janie" series by Caroline Cooney
-- "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
-- "Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket
-- "Chronicles of Narnia" by CS Lewis
-- Dealing With Dragons by Wrede, Patricia
-- Circle of Magic by Pierce, Tamora
-- Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery, Lucy M.
-- Sammy Keyes by Van Draanen, Wendelin

High School Series
-- "Cirque du Freak" series by Darren Shan
-- "Darkangel" series by Meredith Pierce
-- "Discworld" series by Terry Pratchett
-- "Dragonriders of Pern" series by Anne McCaffery
-- "Fearless" series by Francine Pascal
-- "Fingerprints" series by Melinda Metz
-- "Georgia Nicolson" series by Louise Rennison
-- "Heartland" series by Lauren Brooke
-- "Making Out" series by Karen Applegate
-- "One Last Wish" by Lurlene McDaniel
-- "Sweep" series by Cate Tiernan