Dan Greenburg

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  • Bibliography:
    63 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1967
  • Latest Book:
    August 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Maximum Boy

1 - The Hijacking of Manhattan // How I Became a Superhero (May-2001)
2 - The Day Everything Tasted Like Broccoli (May-2001)
3 - Superhero ... or Super Thief? (Aug-2001)
4 - The Invasion from the Planet of the Cows (Nov-2001)
5 - Maximum Girl Unmasked (Feb-2002)
6 - The Attack of the Soggy Underwater People (May-2002)
7 - Meet Super Sid, Crime-Fighting Kid (Dec-2002)
8 - The Worst Bully in the Entire Universe (Apr-2003)

Secrets Of Dripping Fang

1 - The Onts (Sep-2005)
2 - Treachery and Betrayal at Jolly Days (Jan-2006)
3 - The Vampire's Curse (Mar-2006)
4 - Fall of the House of Mandible (Jun-2006)
5 - The Shluffmuffin Boy Is History (Dec-2006)
6 - Attack of the Giant Octopus (Jan-2007)
7 - Please Don't Eat the Children (Apr-2007)
8 - When Bad Snakes Attack Good Children (May-2007)

Weird Planet

1 - Dude, Where's My Spaceship? (Apr-2006)
2 - Lost in Las Vegas (Apr-2006)
3 - Chilling with the Great Ones (Nov-2006)
4 - Attack of the Evil Elvises (May-2007)
5 - Lights Camera...Liftoff (Nov-2007)
6 - Thrills, Spills and Cosmic Chills (Mar-2008)

The Zack Files

1 - Great-Grandpa's in the Litter Box (Aug-1996)
2 - Through the Medicine Cabinet (Aug-1996)
3 - A Ghost Named Wanda (Aug-1996)
4 - Zap! I'm a Mind Reader (1996)
5 - Dr. Jekyll, Orthodontist (Jan-1997)
6 - I'm Out of My Body... Please Leave a Message (Feb-1997)
7 - Never Trust a Cat Who Wears Earrings (Mar-1997)
8 - My Son, the Time Traveler (Apr-1997)
9 - The Volcano Goddess Will See You Now (May-1997)
10 - Bozo the Clone (Aug-1997)
11 - How to Speak Dolphin in Three Easy Lessons (Oct-1997)
12 - Now You See Me Now You Don't (Mar-1998)
13 - The Misfortune Cookie (Sep-1998)
14 - Elvis the Turnip -- and Me (Nov-1998)
15 - Hang a Left at Venus (Jul-1999)
16 - Evil Queen Tut and the Great Ant Pyramids (Jul-1999)
17 - Yikes! Grandma's a Teenager (Nov-1998)
18 - How I Fixed the Year 1000 Problem (Dec-1999)
19 - The Boy Who Cried Bigfoot (May-2000)
20 - How I Went from Bad to Verse (Jun-2000)
21 - Don't Count on Dracula (Oct-2000)
22 - This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us (Oct-2000)
23 - Greenish Eggs and Dinosaurs (Oct-2001)
24 - My Grandma, Major League Slugger (Dec-2001)
25 - Trapped in the Museum of Unnatural History (Feb-2002)
26 - Me and My Mummy (Apr-2002)
27 - My Teacher Ate My Homework (Sep-2002)
28 - Tell a Lie and Your Butt Will Grow (Jan-2003)
29 - Just Add Water...and Scream! (Feb-2003)
30 - It's Itchcraft (Aug-2003)

Book List in Order: 63 titles

  • How to Be a Jewish Mother

    How to be a Jewish Mother byDan Greenburg Here's the wildly funny Jewish mother's guide to care and feeding if the young, by a man who threw a wonderful education right out the window to become a writer....

  • Love Kills

    The attractive redhead at the A&P checkout counter opens her checkbook and begins writing a check, unaware that she’s signing her own death warrant. The man behind her in the dark overcoat memorizes the address on her check. When she leaves the A&P...

  • Jumbo the Boy and Arnold the Elephant

  • Exes

    After one night stands, she feels powerless, humiliated, and weak. She hates them--the playboys and triflers, especially the married ones. So she begins to take her own twisted revenge on the men who have used her--every last one. "An engrossing tale...

  • The Guardian

    Phil and Julie have everything going for them: a happy marriage, promising careers, and now a new baby boy. Into their lives comes Nanny, experienced with children and blessed with glowing recommendations. Nanny brings Phil and Julie the kind of free...

  • The Bed Who Ran Away from Home

  • Young Santa

  • Zap! I'm a Mind Reader

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    The Zack Files - 4

    Who'd have thought mind reading could be such a pain? I mean, I expected to discover everyone's silly secrets. But someone is planning something very strange -- and it's no joke!...

  • A Ghost Named Wanda

    The Zack Files - 3

    My room is a mess. Now usually this is not big news. But my clothes have started moving... when I'm not inside them. And the TV is floating across the room! Guess what! I'm sharing my room with a ghost named Wanda. ...



  • Great-Grandpa's in the Litter Box

    The Zack Files - 1

    What I wanted was a cute little kitten. Instead, I got a tough tomcat that talks. And that's not all! He says he's my Great-Grandpa Julius and he needs my help. And messy litter box or not, family is family!...

  • Through the Medicine Cabinet

    The Zack Files - 2

    One minute I was looking for my retainer in the bathroom. The next, I was staring at a boy who looked just like me. And I don't mean my reflection! What's going on here?...

  • Dr. Jekyll, Orthodontist

    The Zack Files - 5

    Zack isn't thrilled about having to get a tooth pulled, but a trip to the orthodontist proves a lot hairier than he ever expected. Nice old Dr. Silver has been replaced by the fang- toothed Dr. Jekyll, a mouthwash-guzzling mad scientist whose secret ...

  • I'm Out of My Body... Please Leave a Message

    The Zack Files - 6

    When Zack's friend Spencer brings a 60's-style hippie book on astral travel to a sleepover, Zack learns the ins and outs of out-of-body travel in a snap. Getting out of their bodies seems awfully easy for the boys. The problem is, how do they get bac...

  • Never Trust a Cat Who Wears Earrings

    The Zack Files - 7

    One minute, it was an Egyptian cat stature. The next, it was real, live cat with sharp claws. And I have the scratch to prove it! This was one trip to the museum I would never forget....

  • My Son, the Time Traveler

    The Zack Files - 8

    After months of hoarding his allowance, Zack is on his way to buy a prized baseball card. But when he gets to the store, the owner tells him that someone else has just bought it. Who, you may ask, has beaten Zack out of the card? A boy named Mack, wh...

  • The Volcano Goddess Will See You Now

    The Zack Files - 9

    Hawaii. Dream vacation. Same thing, right? Wrong! No sooner do Zack and his dad arrive at their hotel does strange things start happening to Zack. First he gets bonked on the head by a falling coconut, then the T. V. blows up, then he gets thrown o...

  • Bozo the Clone

    The Zack Files - 10

    "My clone looks like me.My clone talks like me.He helps me with my homeworkand takes care of my bullies.And he could be the answerto all my problems.Or he could be my biggest one yet!...

  • How to Speak Dolphin in Three Easy Lessons

    The Zack Files - 11

    When Zack is given the chance to swim with dolphins on a trip to Florida, he dives right in. But before long, Zack is surprised to find that the dolphins are trying to tell him something ? and even more surprised that he can understand and talk to t...

  • Now You See Me Now You Don't

    The Zack Files - 12

    A hypnotist's show turns out to be way more than Zack bargains for when he is pulled out of the audience, put into a trance, and his body is "taken over" by the spirit of someone from the past. And that's only the beginning, because the stubborn s...



  • The Misfortune Cookie

    The Zack Files - 13

    What would you do if your fortune cookie fortunes started coming true? Confucius says something very weird is going on! Could his thirteenth adventure be Zack's unlucky number?...

  • Elvis the Turnip -- and Me

    The Zack Files - 14

    One night, as I was getting a snack, I heard a strange noise. It was coming from the refrigerator. It sounded like singing. It sounded like...Elvis? ...

  • Yikes! Grandma's a Teenager

    The Zack Files - 17

    A trip to New York City to celebrate her 89th birthday--and participate in a Rockettes reunion at Radio City Music Hall--leaves Zack's Grandma Leah feeling younger than springtime. And she's looking that way too, since a strange trip through an airpo...

  • Evil Queen Tut and the Great Ant Pyramids

    The Zack Files - 16

    Uh-oh! Thanks to a heaping helping of a new dietetic sugar substitute, Zack shrinks down to the size of a bug. It's not all that bad--until he discovers an army of ants who are building an ant pyramid for their despotic pharaoh-queen!...

  • Hang a Left at Venus

    The Zack Files - 15

    When Zack and his dad come upon an alien whose spacecraft is running on empty in Central Park, it's easy enough to find more fuel. (Mayonnaise!) But retrieving the abandoned spaceship from the NYPD is quite a different story!...

  • How I Fixed the Year 1000 Problem

    The Zack Files - 18

    Forget about the Y2K problem! Zack's up to his ears in dragons and wizards when a computer glitch sends him hurtling back in time to the year 999--and a peculiar boys' school known as Dragon Slayers' Academy!...

  • The Boy Who Cried Bigfoot

    The Zack Files - 19

    Zack's first trip to sleep-away camp gets a little hairy when legends of a mysterious creature lurking in the woods turn out to be more than just campfire tales. Is it the missing link? Yeti? Sasquatch? Bigfoot?...

  • How I Went from Bad to Verse

    The Zack Files - 20

    Zack goes on a class trip, gets an insect bit, and suddenly can't speak a single word that isn't in rhyme. Talking like a modern-day Shakespeare may be fun at first, but not when you can't turn it off! What could be verse? How did this happen? And ho...

  • Don't Count on Dracula

    The Zack Files - 21

    Strange things just won't stop happening to Zack! One more out-of-this-world adventures join this funny series about a 10 year old who's prone to paranormal problems. Zack enters a horror film fan contest, and he and his best friend win an evening wi...

  • This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us

    The Zack Files - 22

    Zack used to be in control of hisown body. But that was before someone else -- someone who's been dead almost one hundred years -- took over. She's bossy, she's British, she's a queen -- and she and Zack are not amused!...



  • The Day Everything Tasted Like Broccoli

    Maximum Boy - 2

  • The Hijacking of Manhattan // How I Became a Superhero

    Maximum Boy - 1

    WHO CAN SEE THROUGH WALLS, GLOW IN THE DARK, AND SAVE THE PLANET BEFORE 10 P.M. (9:30 on school nights)? It's MAXimum Boy! Who is he? He’s Max Silver. Ordinary eleven- year-old by day. Superhero by, um, afternoon. Yes, Max was just a regular ...

  • Superhero ... or Super Thief?

    Maximum Boy - 3

    STOP THE CLOCK! Someone has frozen time in order to steal four of the world's most valuable treasures. And the thief is wearing a black mask like Maximum Boy, a silver cape like Maximum Boy, and a hat with Maximum Boy's logo on it. Wait a second, it...

  • Greenish Eggs and Dinosaurs

    The Zack Files - 23

  • The Invasion from the Planet of the Cows

    Maximum Boy - 4

    WHO CAN SEE THROUGH WALLS, GLOW IN THE DARK, AND SAVE THE PLANET BEFORE 10 P.M. (9:30 on school nights?) IT'S MAXIMUM BOY LOOK UP IN THE SKY! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's . . . it's . . . a UFO filled with cows from outer space?!! The President ...

  • My Grandma, Major League Slugger

    The Zack Files - 24

    Zack's Grandma Leah is back and peppier than ever in another hilarious escapade--now she's developed amazing batting skills....

  • Trapped in the Museum of Unnatural History

    The Zack Files - 25

    The natural history museum always seemed kind of spooky. I thought the models looked just a little too real. But I didn't realize how spooky it was -- until I got trapped there at night!...

  • Maximum Girl Unmasked

    Maximum Boy - 5

    Who can see through walls, glow in the dark, and save the planet before 10 P.M. (9:30 on school nights)? It’s MAXimum Boy. IS TWO TOO MUCH? That's what Max Silver is about to find out. Because his sister, Tiffany, is the newest superhero flying th...

  • Me and My Mummy

    The Zack Files - 26

    Mummies are cool, but they’re creepy, too! Zack has faced aliens, vampires, time-travelers, ghosts, and Bigfoot -- now find out what happens when he meets teenage mummy Ikhnaton (Icky for short)....

  • The Attack of the Soggy Underwater People

    Maximum Boy - 6

    THEY'RE MEAN. THEY'RE GREEN. And they smell kinds fishy. The Water People just swam up from the bottom of the sea to take over the world! Maximum Boy is chosen to defend Earth by going head-to-fin with the slimy sea monsters. But Max is afraid to sti...



  • My Teacher Ate My Homework

    The Zack Files - 27

    Zack's new substitute teacher seems kind of odd. And she is rather hairy. And get this, her name is Mrs. Wolfowitz! But is she really a werewolf? Or just one very weird lady who happens to like the taste of homework papers? Read on to find out!...

  • Meet Super Sid, Crime-Fighting Kid

    Maximum Boy - 7

    THEY CHEER. THEY SHOUT! The crowd's gone wild! They can't get enough of the world's greatest superhero. He's loyal and brave. Mature and handsome. Smart, athletic -- Whoa! Wait just a second. Mature? Handsome? They're not cheering for our skinny elev...

  • Tell a Lie and Your Butt Will Grow

    The Zack Files - 28

    Tell a Lie and Your Butt Will Grow Everyone at school knows that Andrew Clancy is a huge liar. But suddenly, everyone knows! Every time he tells another whopper, his butt grows bigger -- Will it ever stop?...

  • Just Add Water...and Scream!

    The Zack Files - 29

    When Zack and Spencer get the late-night munchies at a sleepover, they curb their hunger with some freeze-dried food that Zack got at the Air & Space Museum. After devouring freeze-dried ice cream and pizza, they come across an extra package of f...

  • The Worst Bully in the Entire Universe

    Maximum Boy - 8

    Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to save the planet before 10 pm (9:30 on school nights)... It's Maximum Boy!

    It's April Fools! Over and over and over again...

    That's right, some evildoer is playing ...

  • It's Itchcraft

    The Zack Files - 30

    Zack is nervous about the fifth-grade Halloween dance. He doesn't know how to dance and he doesn't have a date! When Zack meets Prudence, a beautiful girl who speaks with a funny accent and dresses in old-fashioned clothing, he's smitten. He thinks h...

  • The Onts

    Secrets Of Dripping Fang - 1

    Run, Shluffmuffins, run! Nobody wants to adopt the Shluffmuffin twins. Wally's feet stink something awful, and Cheyenne is allergic to everything. Then why are the Mandible sisters so eager to take them home? And what sort of old maids would choose ...

  • Treachery and Betrayal at Jolly Days

    Secrets Of Dripping Fang - 2

    When last we saw them, the Shluffmuffin twins were running for their lives. In this, the second installment, they run right into the arms of their long-lost father. But he's not quite as they remember him . . . Of course, who would be after a tragic ...

  • The Vampire's Curse

    Secrets Of Dripping Fang - 3

    In an astounding turn of events, the Shluffmuffins twins' long-lost father has reappeared years after his tragic Porta Potti accident. Wally and Cheyenne, of course, are thrilled to see their dear old dad again. But would it be rude to point out how ...

  • Dude, Where's My Spaceship?

    Weird Planet - 1

    Klatu is such a varna! He crashed the spaceship into planet Earth with his brother Lek and sister Ploo onboard. Stuck in the middle of the Nevada desert with nowhere to run, Ploo is captured by army Earthlings who think that she is an enemy of humank...



  • Lost in Las Vegas

    Weird Planet - 2

    Ploo, Lek, and Klatu have escaped from Area 51 and hit the road in a stolen station wagon. Where are they headed? Las Vegas, of course! After all Vegas has everything -- slot machines, drive-through wedding chapels, Elvis impersonators. It’s sure t...

  • Fall of the House of Mandible

    Secrets Of Dripping Fang - 4

    Things seem pretty hopeless for the Shluffmuffin family in the fourth book in this hilarious series. The treacherous Mandible sisters have kidnapped Cheyenne again, and it's up to Wally to rescue her. And not only is their adoring dad a vampire, but ...

  • Claws

    When Cody is 14, he runs away from home, leaving behind his abusive mother, and flees across the country. He doesn't stop until he hits Texas and the Sam Houston Tiger Ranch. Under the guidance of Sunny, the ranch's owner, he cares for the animals in...

  • Chilling with the Great Ones

    Weird Planet - 3

    Klatu, Lek, and Ploo head back to Groom Lake to fix their busted spaceship. But the spaceship is gone--it's been taken to Area 51. There's nothing for the aliens to do other than sneak in and search for it. Instead they find something they weren't lo...

  • The Shluffmuffin Boy Is History

    Secrets Of Dripping Fang - 5

    Run, Shluffmuffins, run! What do sarcastic troll doctors, disfigured giant ants, and a jackal assassin disguised as a public health official have in common? Well, they're all just part of the daily grind in Dripping Fang Forest. True -- it's never e...

  • Attack of the Giant Octopus

    Secrets Of Dripping Fang - 6

    Run, Shluffmuffins, run! Have you ever wondered what a human kid looks like when genetically crossed with evil giant ant larvae? (Hint: It ain't pretty.) Or perhaps you've pondered how a four-hundred-pound killer octopus might best attack its prey? ...

  • Please Don't Eat the Children

    Secrets Of Dripping Fang - 7

    What can we expect from the next two brilliantly creepy books in the deliciously disturbing Dripping Fang series? Well, it’s probably a safe guess that they will be just as bizarre and frightfully fun as the others. And we could possibly surmise...

  • Attack of the Evil Elvises

    Weird Planet - 4

    After thier spaceship is taken by the Great Ones, Ploo, Klatu, and Lek return to Las Vegas. There they discover an infestation of Elvisimpersonators, in town for a convention. Klatu, Lek, and Ploo are sure the odd-looking humans are up to no good, an...

  • When Bad Snakes Attack Good Children

    Secrets Of Dripping Fang - 8

    What can we expect from the next two brilliantly creepy books in the deliciously disturbing Dripping Fang series? Well, it’s probably a safe guess that they will be just as bizarre and frightfully fun as the others. And we could possibly surmise th...

  • Lights Camera...Liftoff

    Weird Planet - 5

    KLATU, LEK, AND PLOO just missed their ride home to planet Loogl. The army men from Area 51 scared their spaceship away. So where can they find a place to land a spaceship without causing havoc? Hollywood, of course, on the stage set of a film crew! ...

  • Thrills, Spills and Cosmic Chills

    Weird Planet - 6

    Klatu, Lek, And Ploo finally have a day off from their job as extras on a hit sci-fi TV show. So what should they do around Los Angeles for a day? Go to Dizzyland, of course! The amusement park has everything, from roller-coasters to ferris wheels to...

  • Fear Itself

    Why would a nurse’s aide terrified of heights hurl herself from a twentieth story rooftop in Queens? Why would an attractive librarian with a water phobia be found naked and floating facedown in the Astoria Park swimming pool? How did the scantily ...

  • Why I Was Late for School Again

    Danny is always late for school. If he's not stopped by pirates, then zombies chase him. He escapes from trolls only to be cornered by gruff billy goats. Good thing Danny has a quick imagination. He may be late for school, but he does get there! From...

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Dan Greenburg has published 63 books.

Dan Greenburg does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Why I Was Late for School Again, was published in August 2021.

The first book by Dan Greenburg, How to Be a Jewish Mother, was published in November 1967.

Yes. Dan Greenburg has 4 series.
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