Carolyn Meyer

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1974
  • Latest Book:
    February 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Hotline

1 - Because of Lissa (Nov-1990)
2 - The Problem With Sidney (Nov-1990)
3 - Gillian's Choice (Feb-1991)
4 - The Two Faces of Adam (May-1991)

Young Royals

Mary, Bloody Mary (Sep-1999)
Beware, Princess Elizabeth (May-2001)
Doomed Queen Anne (Oct-2002)
Patience, Princess Catherine (May-2004)
Duchessina (Jun-2007)
The Bad Queen (Apr-2010)
The Wild Queen (Jun-2012)

Multi-Author Series List

Great Episodes

Where the Broken Heart Still Beats (Oct-1992)

The Royal Diaries

4 - Isabel: Jewel of Castilla (Jul-2000)
5 - Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess (Sep-2000)
15 - Kristina: The Girl King (May-2003)

Book List in Order: 43 titles

  • Christmas Crafts

  • Lots and Lots of Candy

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  • C.C. Poindexter

  • Eulalia's Island

  • The Luck of Texas Mccoy

    Sixteen-year-old Texas, in order to keep the ranch left to her by her grandfather, sells some acreage to a movie company as a location for western films, and finds herself becoming involved with a young actor....

  • The Mystery of the Ancient Maya

  • Elliot and Win

  • Denny's Tapes

  • Wild Rover

    When her convict father, on the run from the law, takes fifteen-year-old Andy into a remote wilderness area where they must fight to stay alive, he tries to explain to her what prison was like and they both make some shocking discoveries about each o...



  • Killing the Kudu

    Suffocating under his mother's overprotectiveness, Alex, an eighteen-year-old paraplegic, finds freedom, his first love, and a reconciliation with the cousin who accidentally shot and crippled him years ago....

  • Because of Lissa

    Hotline - 1

    News of Lissa Mainzer’s suicide shocks everyone. Lissa’s friends Jenny, Kurt, Angie,and Lan are determined to keep others from feeling that desperate. They work to form a crisis hotline at their high school, taking the calls in shifts, ...

  • The Problem With Sidney

    Hotline - 2

    Hotline volunteer Kurt Lundquist's telephone relationship with a caller, Sidney, leads to personal involvement and heartbreak when he feels compelled to save her from making a drastic mistake and discovers the limitations of the hotline...

  • Gillian's Choice

    Hotline - 3

    In this third book in the Hotline series, Gillian, a quiet classmate, confides in Angie that she’s pregnant and afraid—afraid to tell her parents or the baby’s father, afraid of what lies ahead. But Angie, too, has problems. She ...

  • The Two Faces of Adam

    Hotline - 4

    In this, the 4th book in the Hotline series, Lan Nguyen wants to do the right thing. He has no doubts about where he stands on drugs. Drugs are bad, people who use them are fools, people who sell them are criminals. Then the high school hotline start...

  • Voices of Northern Ireland

  • Where the Broken Heart Still Beats

    Great Episodes

    At the age of nine, Cynthia Ann Parker was captured in an Indian raid and taken tolive as a slave with the Comanche. Twenty-four years later, she is the wife of a chiefand the mother of a young warrior destined to become the great chief Quanah Parker...

  • White Lilacs

    Back then--and this was in 1921--Freedom, as we called it, was our part of Dillon. There was everything you could want in a town -- our colored school and two churches and a grocery store and cafe... It just happened that Freedom was right in the mid...

  • Rio Grande Stories

    The seventh-grade class at Rio Grande Middle School in Albuquerque is a unique group. Coming from schools all over the city, the students are facing new challenges and wondering how they'll fit in. When they are asked to raise money for the school, ...

  • Drummers of Jericho

    Pazit Trujillo begins her freshman year at Jericho High School and quickly realizes that people in this small suburban town aren’t used to Jewish girls with strange names. Despite the whispers and stares, Pazit wants to fit in and is determined to ...



  • Gideon's People

    Jews don’t eat meat from a pig. Amish don’t wear buttons. But two boys from extremely different cultures discover how similar they really are. “The story is fascinating as an in-depth examination of two disparate cultures that--the boys discove...

  • Jubilee Journey

    In this compelling continuation of the Jefferson family story (begun in White Lilacs), Emily Rose traces her family’s history through three generations and countless troubles. She learns how racism and intolerance have affected her family in the pa...

  • Mary, Bloody Mary

    Young Royals

    The story of Mary Tudor's childhood is a classic fairy tale: A princess who is to
    inherit the throne of England is separated from her mother; abused by an evil
    stepmother who has enchanted her father; stripped of her title; and forced to
    car...

  • Isabel: Jewel of Castilla

    The Royal Diaries - 4

    Segovia -- 12th of April 1466 After Mass this morning, I climbed the narrow, winding stone steps to a window high in one of the castle turrets. I often come up here to see what lies beyond my prison. Segovia is surrounded by four thick walls, each w...

  • Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess

    The Royal Diaries - 5

    25 Apri1 1914 -- Livadia Papa took us on another long walk. Mama and Alexei joined us later for a picnic, although Mama was feeling weak and needed her wheelchair. An odd thing happened. My sisters and I were picking wildflowers in a meadow, and Al...

  • Beware, Princess Elizabeth

    Young Royals

    Beware, Princess Elizabeth! No one can be trusted. Your sister, the queen, would have you killed. Your sister's husband would force you to marry against your will. Even your servants would spy on you. Beware, all you who stand in her way! Prin...

  • Doomed Queen Anne

    Young Royals

    YOU HAVE WON the heart of the most powerful man in the country, yet all others detest you. You have been crowned queen, yet you are ostracized and utterly alone. You, Anne Boleyn, are the girl everyone loves to hate. And for that, you will pay. Born...

  • Brown Eyes Blue

    This story of three generations of independent-minded women will resonate with mothers and daughters of all ages....

  • Kristina: The Girl King

    The Royal Diaries - 15

    August 3, 1638 Papa Matthiae arrived last evening, accompanied by Jacob Henrik Elbfas, the court painter. I feared this meant I should have to pose for another official portrait. They dress you in wretchedly uncomfortable gowns and make you stand pe...

  • Patience, Princess Catherine

    Young Royals

    This “rewarding historical novel” recounts the dramatic story of Catherine of Aragon, the first of Henry VIII’s six wives (Booklist).    England anxiously awaits Prince Arthur’s betrothed -- the Spanish princess who will be its futu...



  • Marie, Dancing

    THE MUSIC SOARS. THE CURTAIN LIFTS. Marie van Goethem rises on her toes and floats across the stage of the Paris Opera. In that moment, she is happy. Unfortunately, that is almost the only joy in Marie's life. When she's not dancing, Marie is t...

  • Loving Will Shakespeare

    Anne Hathaway longs for love--but she's well past the proper marrying age and still stuck living with her brothers, sisters, and nagging stepmother in a crowded cottage. Her best friend has a family of her own, and even Will Shakespeare, the neighbor...

  • Duchessina

    Young Royals

    Young Catherine de' Medici is the sole heiress to the entire fortune of the wealthy Medici family. But her life is far from luxurious. After a childhood spent locked away behind the walls of a convent, she joins the household of the pope, where at la...

  • In Mozart's Shadow

    Nannerl Mozart was a musical prodigy who seemed to have a brilliant future. But once her younger brother, Wolfgang, began composing symphonies at the age of five, her career and talents were utterly eclipsed. Here, at last, is Nannerl's heart-wrenchi...

  • The True Adventures of Charley Darwin

    The fascinating journey of a famous naturalist Young Charley Darwin hated school--he much preferred to be outside studying birds' eggs, feathers, and insects. And so, at the age of twenty-one, he boarded a ship called HMS Beagle and spent five thr...

  • The Bad Queen

    Young Royals

    History paints her as a shallow party girl, a spoiled fashionista, a callous ruler. Perhaps no other royal has been so maligned -- and so misunderstood -- as Marie-Antoinette. From the moment she was betrothed to the dauphin of France at age fourtee...

  • Cleopatra Confesses

    It is the first century B.C. Cleopatra, the third of the pharaoh's six children, is the one that her father has chosen to be the next queen of Egypt. But when King Ptolemy is forced into exile, Cleopatra is left alone to fend for herself in a palace ...

  • The Wild Queen

    Young Royals

    Mary Stuart was just five years old when she was sent to France to be raised alongside her future husband. But when the frail young king dies, eighteen-year-old Mary is stripped of her title as Queen of France and set adrift in the harsh world, alone...

  • Victoria Rebels

    Queen Victoria’s personal journals inform this captivating first-person novel about of one of history’s most prominent female leaders. Queen Victoria most certainly left a legacy -- under her rule as the longest reigning female monarch in hist...

  • Beauty's Daughter

    What is it like to be the daughter of the most beautiful woman in the world? Hermione knows . . . her mother is Helen of Troy, the famed beauty of Greek myth. Helen is not only beautiful but also impulsive, and when she falls in love with charming...



  • Diary of a Waitress

    A young working girl comes of age in the American West in this “fast and interesting” historical novel for fans of the Dear America and American Girl series (School Library Journal)   In 1926, droves of Americans traveled by train across the...

  • Anastasia and Her Sisters

    There’s a heavy price to pay for royalty in this compelling -- and true -- story of Anastasia Romanov and fellow grand duchesses of Russia, from an award-winning novelist. It’s summer in 1914 and the Romanovs are aboard the Standart, the Russi...

  • Girl with a Camera

    The daring and passionate life of photographer Margaret Bourke-White -- the first female war photojournalist in World War II and the first female photographer for Life magazine -- is captured in this historical novel.  Growing up, Marga...

  • Girl with Brush and Canvas

    The life of artist Georgia O'Keeffe is revealed in this biographical novel -- from her childhood when she decided to be an artist, through her art education in Chicago and New York, to her eventual rise to fame in the American Southwest.At the age ...

Award-Winning Books by Carolyn Meyer

Mary, Bloody Mary
2002 Young Reader's Choice Award -- Grades 7-9


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Carolyn Meyer has published 43 books.

Carolyn Meyer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Girl with Brush and Canvas, was published in February 2019.

The first book by Carolyn Meyer, Christmas Crafts, was published in October 1974.

Yes. Carolyn Meyer has 2 series.
Author Series
Multi-Author Series
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