Avi

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  • Bibliography:
    84 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1975
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Amanda

Amanda Joins the Circus (Feb-1999)
Keep Your Eye on Amanda (Feb-1999)

Beyond the Western Sea

1 - The Escape From Home (Mar-1996)
2 - Lord Kirkles Money (Sep-1996)
3 - Into the Storm (May-2012)

Crispin

1 - Crispin: The Cross of Lead (Jun-2002)
2 - At the Edge of the World (Sep-2006)
3 - The End of Time (Jun-2010)

Midnight

1 - Murder At Midnight (Sep-2009)
2 - Midnight Magic (May-2004)
3 - City of Magic (Jul-2022)

Poppy

1 - Ragweed (May-2000)
2 - Poppy (Sep-1995)
3 - Poppy and Rye (Jun-1998)
4 - Ereth's Birthday (Sep-2001)
5 - Poppy's Return (2005)
6 - Poppy and Ereth (May-2009)
7 - Ragweed and Poppy (Jun-2020)

Book List in Order: 84 titles

  • No More Magic

    • / General Fiction
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    Curiouser and curiouser. . . Was it the one-legged witch, the masked nurse, the warlock, or the mummy? When Chris's bicycle disappears on Halloween, he suspects witchcraft. Especially after he learns that the warlock costume belonging to his new ...

  • Captain Grey

    Young Kevin Cartwright is the prisoner of a pirate king. "I shall find a way to get free." "Free!" he shouted. "You are here, with us now. You can forget about your father and your sister, or anybody else you may have known. You belong to no nati...

  • Emily Upham's Revenge

    Bankrupt! Emily Upham's father is ruined, finished, all his money gone. One night, he disappears, vowing never to return until he can pay his debts. Banished! Distraught, Emily's mother sends her daughter from their home in Boston to a small count...

  • Night Journeys

    The year is 1767, and newly-orphaned teenager Peter York has been adopted by a deeply religious Quaker farmer. Peter chafes at his new guardian's strict and unyielding ways and vows to break away. When a pair of runaway indentured servants are report...

  • Encounter at Easton

    Will Robert and Elizabeth find in Easton the life they want so desperately?

    The year is 1768. In eight years, the American Revolution will begin. Two indentured servants, little more than children, escape first from their master and t...

  • The History of Helpless Harry

    Eleven-year-old Harry's adventures, involving lies, attempted robbery, and the possibility of murder, begin when his parents go away for a few days and he is left in the care of the young Miss Trowbridge....

  • Man from the Sky

    Will someone believe Jamie--before it's too late? Everyone knows that Jamie is a dreamer. When he looks up at the sky, instead of clouds he sees knights and dragons from centuries past and fabulous creatures from far-off lands. But one day he look...

  • A Place Called Ugly

    There'sno reasoning with Owen.The island cottage where he and his family have spent the last ten summers must be preserved.And he's going to do it. Never mind that bulldozer stands outside, ready to move in and level the place for a modern hotel. ...

  • Who Stole the Wizard of Oz?

    THIEF! Becky is furious! The Checkertown librarian has accused her of stealing a rare children's book, and she's determined to prove her innocence by tracking down the real culprit. With the help of her twin brother Toby, Becky investigates a rash o...



  • Sometimes I Think I Hear My Name

  • S.O.R. Losers

    • / General Fiction
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    THEY'RE THE WACKIEST BUNCH OF LOSERS SINCE THE BAD NEWS BEARS! The South Orange River (S.O.R.) School is famous for its winning sports teams--until the special 7th grade soccer team comes along. Led by the amazingly inept Ed Sitrow, this non-jock ...

  • The Fighting Ground

    April 3, 1778 HE MAY BE JUST THIRTEEN, but Jonathan knows he's ready to go to the war against the British. He can handle a gun. He yearns to battle for glory, just like his brother and cousin. So when Jonathan hears the tavern bell toll, calling me...

  • Bright Shadow

    In one day, Morwenna has gone from being the lowliest servant in the king's castle to the most powerful person in the land, for she has become the wizard, the bearer of the last five wishes in the kingdom. But with her new gift come rules: She cannot...

  • Wolf Rider

    The phone rang three times before Andy picked it up. "Hello?" he said. A voice replied, "I just killed someone." Only Andy Zadinski is convinced that the caller is serious. But no one else will listen; not the police, not his friends, not even hi...

  • Devil's Race

    Sixteen-year-old John Proud discovers his family's dark secret in 1854 an ancestral namesake confessed to being a demon. Now John finds himself battling his ancestor who is trying to use John for an evil purpose. Mounting suspense plus the sure draw ...

  • Something Upstairs

    THE MYSTERY DEEPENS The room was shabby and dirty, heavy with heat. None of the things which Kenny called his own remained. Even the painted walls and skylight were gone. Baffled, he wondered if other things -- even outside -- had changed. Kenny ...

  • Romeo and Juliet Together (and Alive!) at Last

    Pete Saltz, the pudgy poet from S.O.R. Losers, has fallen hard for Anabell Stackpoole, and she likes him, too. But both are much too shy to do anything about it. It's Pete's friend Ed Sitrow to the rescue, as he and other eighth-graders at South ...

  • The Man Who Was Poe

    • / General Fiction
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    The Old City Lay Dark And Cold... It is night. And Edmund is alone. His mother is gone. His aunt, who went in search of her, is dead. His sister has disappeared. Edmund has no one. Except for a stranger of the night.A dark, mysterious stranger who f...

  • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

    The Seahawk looms against a darkening sky, black and sinister. Manned by an angry, motley crew at the mercy of a ruthless captain, the rat-infested ship reeks of squalor, despair...and mutiny! It is no place for the lone passenger, thirteen-year-old ...



  • Windcatcher

    Tony can hardly believe it. He's sailing with the wind, maneuvering through the narrow channels between the offshore islands with amazing skill. And he's just learned to sail! But suddenly Tony is confused. Which way had he come? Which way is he head...

  • Nothing but the Truth

    Patriotism or practical joke? Harrison, NH -- Ninth-grade student Philip Malloy was suspended from school for singing along to The Star-Spangled Banner in his homeroom, causing what his teacher, Margaret Narwin, called "a disturbance." But was he st...

  • Blue Heron

    • / General Fiction
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    What is magic really for? As Maggie approaches her thirteenth birthday, she wants to believe that some kind of magic can stop the changes all around her. Her visit with her father and his new family at a lakeside cabin makes her wonder. Will he st...

  • Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?

    A fast-paced, madcap adventure from the always surprising raconteur, Avi!It's the spring of 1945 in Brooklyn, and while WWII rages in Europe, sixth grader Frankie Wattleson--inspired by the heroics of The Lone Ranger and other radio show idols--sets ...

  • City of Light, City of Dark

    Avi's ground-breaking graphic novel gets a stunning new cover to celebrate its twentieth anniversary!Two kids fight to save their city from eternal winter in this gripping fantasy by Newbery Medalist Avi, illustrated by three-time Sibert Honoree Bria...

  • The Bird, the Frog, and the Light

  • Smugglers' Island

    "You're crazy, Shadrach Faherty," Davey called.
    "Crazy! You're going to get yourself killed!"

    Shadrach is enraged. Bootleggers have taken over his island home, using it as a base from which to run their illegal operation...

  • The Barn

    This moving story historical novel from master storyteller Avi will reach the wide audience it deserves with its beautiful and compelling new cover treatment.Ben is away at school when his father mysteriously falls ill in the spring of 1855. With no ...

  • Punch With Judy

  • Tom, Babette and Simon: Three Tales of Transformation

    TOMTom is bored all the time. When he's given a homework assignment to write The Most Exciting Thing That Ever Happened to Me, Tom realizes that not one exciting thing has happened to him in his entire life. Then Tom makes a deal to trade places with...



  • Poppy

    Poppy - 2

    KING OF THE NIGHT At the very edge of Dimwood Forest stood an old charred oak where, silhouetted by the moon, a great horned owl sat waiting. The owls name was Mr. Ocax, and he looked like death himself. With his piercing gaze, he surveyed the lands...

  • The Escape From Home

    Beyond the Western Sea - 1

    Maura O'Connell, 15, and her brother, Patrick, 12, escape Ireland's brutal poverty with only the belongings in their bundles and tickets for ocean passage. Sir Laurence Kirkle, 11, flees a life of privilege to seek justice. When fate brings them toge...

  • Lord Kirkles Money

    Beyond the Western Sea - 2

    Maura and Patrick have escaped the desperate poverty and danger of leaving home in Ireland to face even greater peril as they continue their daring voyage to the New World with their friend Laurence Kirkle. Aboard ship, they are crowded into the sten...

  • Finding Providence: The Story of Roger Williams

    An I Can Read Book

    The year is 1635, and Mary Williams and her family live in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her father, Roger, is on trial for preaching new ideas about freedom. When found guilty, he flees into the cold, telling Mary that she must trust in God's pro...

  • What Do Fish Have To Do With Anything? and Other Stories

    In this extraordinary collection, Newbery Medalist Avi charts the turning points in the lives of seven young protagonists. Among others in these stories, you will meet William of "What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything?," who wonders why he shouldn't ...

  • Poppy and Rye

    Poppy - 3

    Heartbroken over the death of her fiance, Ragweed, Poppy, a deer mouse, journeys west through the vast Dimwood Forest to bring the sad news to Ragweed's family. But Poppy and her prickly porcupine pal, Ereth, arrive only to discover that beavers have...

  • Perloo the Bold

    A MOST UNLIKELY LEADER.... A scholarly, shy member of the rabbit-like Montmers, Perloo is content sipping myrtle tea and reading his history books in his warm burrow. Until the day Perloo's quiet life is interrupted by a mysterious summons from the...

  • Amanda Joins the Circus

    Amanda

    Awesome! That's the only word Amanda the raccoon can think of to describe the circus, and she's determined to join it as a clown. Her brother, Phillip, wants to join the circus, too. But the two raccoons don't know there's someone who plans to close ...

  • Keep Your Eye on Amanda

    Amanda

    The young raccoon is going places -- even if it's in the wrong direction. When Amanda decides she wants to be a professional thief, it's up to her brother, Phillip, to keep her from a life of crime. To do so, he's going to need the help of every anim...

  • Abigail Takes the Wheel

    An I Can Read Book



  • Ragweed

    Poppy - 1

    The first book in the beloved Poppy series by Newbery Medal"winning author Avi, with illustrations from Caldecott Medal"winning artist Brian Floca, is available as an ebook for the first time!A mouse has to do what a mouse has to do. Ragweed is d...

  • The Christmas Rat

    He is one weird Christmas visitor -- his hair and moustache an unearthly white-blond, his voice a gruff rumble. He fills the apartment doorway. From two metal cases he produces what a boy would expect from an exterminator: Toxic roach powders and poi...

  • The Good Dog

    • / General Fiction
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    WHEN THE WILD CALLS McKinley, a malamute, is a good dog -- he's reliable and trustworthy. Whether it's watching over the other dogs of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, or taking care of his human pup, Jack, McKinley never even thinks of letting anyone d...

  • The Secret School

    More than anything, Ida Bidson wants to become a teacher. To do that, she must finish eighth grade, then go on to high school. But her dream falters when the one-room school in her remote Colorado town shuts down. Her only hope is to keep the school ...

  • Don't You Know There's a War On?

    Brooklyn, New York, 1943: a time and place so remarkable that a mere five years later, Howie Crispers, wise at sixteen, can look back to record its fleeting intensity, already long behind him in memory. In 1943, Howie's pop is in the merchant marine...

  • Prairie School

    I Can Read: Level 4

    Reading the prairie

    It's the 1880s, Noah works hard on the family farm and roams free on the Colorado prairie. One day his Aunt Dora arrives to give him some schooling. Noah doesn't think he needs it. What use is reading o...

  • Ereth's Birthday

    Poppy - 4

    ERETH IS HAVING A DREADFUL BIRTHDAY! No one, not even his best friend, the deer mouse Poppy, remembers Preth's birthday. At least that's what the old porcupine thinks. Determined to celebrate alone, he sets off into the forest to search for his o...

  • Crispin: The Cross of Lead

    Crispin - 1

    "Asta's son" is all he's ever been called. The lack of name is appropriate, because he and his mother are but poor peasants in fourteenth-century medieval England. But this thirteen-year-old boy who thought he had little to lose soon finds himself wi...

  • Things That Sometimes Happen: Very Short Stories for Little Listeners

    Here are a few things that sometimes happen: HAPPY THINGS An unpopular Black Crayon proves to a Little Girl how useful he really is. SAD THINGS On a very hot day, an Ice-Cream Cone waits...and waits...to be eaten. EXCITING THINGS A Papa catches...

  • Silent Movie

    Black-and-white images follow one after another. The story of an immigrant family alone in a big city. Close-ups of a mother, a son -- faces filled with heartache and joy. Plenty of action. Excitement. Melodrama. A Silent Movie....



  • The Mayor of Central Park

    Life is good for Oscar Westerwit. He's the mayor of Central Park -- the greatest place on earth for the squirrels, chipmunks, mice, and other animals who live there. He's the shortstop and manager of his baseball team. What could be bad?

    Ple...

  • Midnight Magic

    Midnight - 2

    On a stormy night in the Kingdom of Pergamontio, an insistent knocking brings Fabrizio, the servant boy, to the door. Outside stands a solider summoning Fabrizio's master, Mangus the Magician, to the king's castle. Because Mangus has been under house...

  • The End of the Beginning

    SMALL STEPS LEAD TO BIG ADVENTURES! This is a story that begins where it ends, and ends where it begins: in the treetop home of a rather small snail named Avon. Avon longs to go on an adventure. Adventure, he has heard, is the key to a happy life. S...

  • Poppy's Return

    Poppy - 5

    There's trouble at Gray House, the girlhood home that Poppy left long ago. Poppy's family has called her back to save them all--mother, father, sisters and brothers, and dozens and dozens of deer mouse cousins. Poppy invites her rebellious son, Junio...

  • Strange Happenings

    APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEIVING... Children become cats and birds, a once-invisible young woman pieces herself back together, and the identity of a mysterious baseball mascot is uncovered--all within this eclectic collection from master storyteller A...

  • The Book Without Words

    From Avi, the 2003 Newbery Award-winning author of "Crispin: The Cross of Lead," comes the story of Thorston, an alchemist who works to concoct a potion that will enable him to live forever--and keep dying and rising from the dead as a result....

  • At the Edge of the World

    Crispin - 2

    HE WAS A NAMELESS orphan, marked for death by his masters for an unknown crime. Discovering his name -- Crispin -- only intensified the mystery. Then Crispin met Bear, who helped him learn the secret of his full identity. And in Bear -- the enormous,...

  • The Traitors' Gate

    John Huffam is sure the tall man's beard is false. He's sure of little else in November 1849, the year he is fourteen, the year his father is sentenced to London's Whitecross Street Prison. Maybe the man following John -- who claims to be one Insp...

  • Iron Thunder

    When his father is killed fighting for the Union in the War Between the States, thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll must take a job to help support his family. He manages to find work at a bustling ironworks in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, where doz...

  • A Beginning, a Muddle, and an End: The Right Way to Write Writing

    Avon the snail and Edward the ant are back for another funny--and philosophical--adventure. This time, Avon has decided he wants to be a writer, only to discover that writing is way more difficult than he ever imagined. He finally...

  • The Seer of Shadows

    Horace Carpetine does not believe in ghosts. Raised to believe in science and reason, Horace Carpetine passes off spirits as superstition. Then he becomes an apprentice photographer and discovers an eerie -- and even dangerous -- supernatural powe...

  • Hard Gold

    Early Whitcomb's family needs a miracle. Their Iowa farm has been in the family for generations, but a long drought has withered their savings and left them in debt. Meanwhile, the great Chicago and Northwestern Railroad wants their land, and if the ...

  • Poppy and Ereth

    Poppy - 6

    HAS ERETH LOST POPPY FOREVER? Poppy, a deer mouse, has spent the long winter curled up inside her tree snag home in Dimwood Forest. When the ground thaws and life returns to the woods, Poppy sets out in search of excitement. Suddenly, swooped up ...

  • Murder At Midnight

    Midnight - 1

    A plot to overthrow King Claudio is brewing in the Kingdom of Pergamontio. Scholarly Mangus the magician -- along with his street-smart and faithful new servant boy, Fabrizio -- have been marked as easy scapegoats for the traitor lurking within the k...

  • Acting Out

    With a star-studded lineup of writers, there’s a stage full of drama, comedy, and great storytelling waiting behind these curtains! Sharon Creech spoofs a publishing office in The Raven, and the environment fights back against overdevelopment in...

  • The End of Time

    Crispin - 3

    As long as I could keep myself out of bondage, I would be true to Bear's teaching. And so it was that beyond all else, I was determined to keep my freedom. After the death of their beloved mentor, Bear, Crispin and Troth are more desperate than ev...

  • City of Orphans

    As a newsboy on the streets of 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks Geless has a hard enough time evading the grasp of the Plug Ugly gang, whose sinister boss wants to control all the newsies on the Lower East Side. But now Maks is burdened with a n...

  • Into the Storm

    Beyond the Western Sea - 3

    Avi's suspenseful seafaring adventure ESCAPE FROM HOME continues in INTO THE STORM. Fifteen-year-old Maura and twelve-year-old Patrick O'Connell are finally free from the impoverished conditions of their small Irish village. Though they've made it...

  • Sophia's War

    Lives hang in the balance in this gripping Revolutionary War adventure from a beloved Newbery medalist. In 1776, young Sophia Calderwood witnesses the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, which is newly occupied by the British army. Sophia i...

  • What A Scythe

    Whenever someone dies their souls leave their bodies and turn into spirits. According to the rules, these spirits are supposed to wait for the Grim Reaper to come for them and take them to the great beyond as some people call it. But rules are meant ...

  • Catch You Later, Traitor

    Brooklyn, New York, 1951. Twelve-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas, but when an FBI agent shows up at Pete's doorstep accusing his father of being a Communist, Pete finds himself caught...

  • Old Wolf

    Hunting -- the predator, and its prey -- is at the heart of this riveting and suspenseful novel from Newbery Medalist Avi with illustrations from Caldecott Medalist Brian Floca. In the computer game world of Bow Hunter -- Casey’s world -- there ...

  • Reading the Sky

  • The Most Important Thing

    One of the most beloved writers of our time presents seven short stories exploring the vital ties between fathers and sons. Luke sees the ghost of his father but can’t figure out what Dad wants him to do. Paul takes a camping trip with the grand...

  • School of the Dead

    In this spine-tingling story from Newbery Medal winner Avi, a boy must solve the mystery of the ghost haunting him. For most of Tony Gilbert’s life, he has thought of his uncle as “Weird Uncle Charlie.” That is, until Uncle Charlie moves in ...

  • The Unexpected Life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts

    High adventure from a master storyteller about one boy’s attempt to fend for himself among cruel orphan masters, corrupt magistrates, and conniving thieves. In the seaside town of Melcombe Regis, England, 1724, Oliver Cromwell Pitts wakes to find h...

  • The Player King

    From Newbery Award-winning author Avi comes the gripping and amazingly true tale of a boy plucked from the gutter to become the King of England. England, 1486. King Henry VII has recently snatched the English Crown and now sits on the throne, whil...

  • The Button War

    Renowned, award-winning author Avi pens a stark, unflinching tale of ordinary boys living in wartime as tensions -- and desperations -- mount among them. Twelve-year-old Patryk knows little of the world beyond his tiny Polish village; the Russ...

  • The End of the World and Beyond

    Convicted of thievery and transported from England to America, Oliver Cromwell Pitts, shackled to his fellow prisoners, endures inedible food, filthy conditions, and deadly storms on his voyage across the Atlantic. But the hazardous shipboard journey...

  • Gold Rush Girl

    Newbery Medalist Avi brings us mud-caked, tent-filled San Francisco in 1848 with a willful heroine who goes on an unintended -- and perilous -- adventure to save her brother. Victoria Blaisdell longs for independence and adventure, and she yea...

  • Ragweed and Poppy

    Poppy - 7

    The first new book about Poppy in more than ten years, from Newbery Medal-winning author Avi with illustrations throughout by Caldecott Medal-winning artist Brian Floca. How did Ragweed and Poppy meet and become friends? This book tells their hila...

  • Loyalty

    Newbery Medalist Avi explores the American Revolution from a fresh perspective in the story of a young Loyalist turned British spy navigating patriotism and personal responsibility during the lead-up to the War of Independence.When his father is kill...

  • City of Magic

    Midnight - 3

    From Newbery Medalist Avi comes a richly imagined, action-packed companion to his bestselling medieval mysteries Midnight Magic and Murder at Midnight When King Claudio sends Mangus the Magician and his faithful servant, Fabrizio, to Venice to ste...

  • The Secret Sisters

    Newbery medalist Avi tells the story of a young girl determined to define her own place amidst old rules and new ways in the Roaring Twenties.Attending high school in Steamboat Springs is Ida Bidson’s dream -- it’s her next step toward becoming a...

  • Lost in the Empire City

    Newbery Medalist Avi is back with a gripping exploration of the immigrant experience at the turn of the twentieth century. A must-read for fans of Moon over Manifest and Echo Mountain.When Santo’s father left their tiny town in Italy for America, h...

Award-Winning Books by Avi

City of Orphans
2012 Colorado Book Award -- Juvenile Literature
2013 Land of Enchantment Book Award -- Young Adult
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
2003 Newbery Medal -- Children's
The End of the Beginning
2006 Maine Student Book Award -- Grades 4-8
The Fighting Ground
1985 Scott O Dell Award for Historical Fiction -- Historical Fiction
Murder At Midnight
2010 Great Stone Face Book Award -- Grades 4-6
Nothing but the Truth
1995 Garden State Teen Book Award -- Fiction (Grades 6-8)
Poppy
1996 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award -- Fiction & Poetry
1998 Land of Enchantment Book Award -- Children/Young Adult
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
1991 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award -- Fiction & Poetry


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Avi has published 84 books.

Avi does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Lost in the Empire City, was published in November 2024.

The first book by Avi, No More Magic, was published in January 1975.

Yes. Avi has 5 series.
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