Helaine Becker

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2001
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Dirk Daring, Secret Agent

1 - Dirk Daring, Secret Agent (Oct-2014)
2 - Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (Feb-2016)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • Mama Likes to Mambo

    Everybody loves to dance, and Mama Likes to Mambo will have you out of your seat and boogying to its crazy beat in no time! This vibrant, hip, and very funny collection of poems will almost certainly make you laugh out loud. The toe-tapping rhyth...

  • Funny Business

    Following her good-times-for-all, smash-hit Boredom Blasters, Helaine Becker serves up another barrel of laughs in this book for now and future jokesters. Young readers learn how to prepare a comedy routine and how to draw their own comic strips. The...

  • Juba This, Juba That

    Traditional “juba” rhythms have a long history. They originated in Nigeria as hand-clapping games. People who were brought to the New World as slaves fought hard to keep their culture alive against terrible odds. They transformed “juba” rhyth...

  • Trouble in the Hills

    Set in the Rocky Mountain borderlands, Trouble in the Hills is an action-packed adventure that pits an injured teen against the elements as he tries to elude kidnappers and drug runners. After a fight with his father, Cam takes to the hills that s...

  • How to Survive Absolutely Anything

    Fourteen-year-old Bonnie has started a new advice blog with her best friend Jen, dedicated to surviving the horrors of junior high. In the middle of an enormous family, with "half sibs, step-sibs, half-step-step sibs, half sibs of your half sibs w...

  • AlphaBest

    Sometimes regular adjectives just aren't enough. With AlphaBest, kids will learn a whole alphabet's worth of zany, zanier, zaniest adjectives! An easy guide at the back explains the rules of forming comparatives and superlatives so kids can compare a...

  • Gottika

    What is the most dangerous secret of all? For fifteen-year-old Dany, is it the shame that his once-vital mother now suffers mutely from "the staring sickness?" Or is it that Count Pol, the corrupt absolute ruler of Western Gottika, may be scouting th...

  • Dirk Daring, Secret Agent

    Dirk Daring, Secret Agent - 1

    When Darren Dirkowitz’s evil stepbrother (code name Waldo) gets hold of Darren’s tippity-top-secret spy journal, he threatens to expose it to the entire Preston Middle School student body. Unless, that is, Darren starts doing his dirty work for h...

  • Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

    Dirk Daring, Secret Agent - 2

    Darren Dirkowitz thought his life was over when his tippity-top-secret alter ego, Dirk Daring, Secret Agent, was outed to the entire Preston Middle School student body. If only he’d been so lucky. Now the Wolf Lords -- a gang of teen thugs bent on ...



  • You Can Read

    In this fun and funny celebration of literacy, kids of all ages will discover that the act of reading is a daring adventure that can take you anywhere! You can read at the playground, under the sea, at the opera and even in outer space! It turns out ...

  • You Can Read Read-Along

    Presented in light-hearted, rib-tickling verse that's perfect for reading aloud, You Can Read sings it loud and proud: Books are awesome. And so are the people who read them.In this fun and funny celebration of literacy, kids of all ages will discove...

  • Rapunzel's Bad Hair Day

  • Pirate Queen

    The most powerful pirate in history was a woman who was born into poverty in Guangzhou, China, in the late 1700s. When pirates attacked her town and the captain took a liking to her, she saw a way out. Zheng Yi Sao agreed to marry him only if she ...

  • Alice and Gert

    It’s high summer in the meadow where Alice the ant and Gert the grasshopper live. Alice is hard at work preparing for winter, harvesting heavy loads of seeds. Meanwhile, Gert prefers to play, since winter is ages away. Gert dances through the long ...

  • Emmy Noether

    An engaging picture book biography of a groundbreaking female mathematician. Emmy Noether is not pretty, quiet or good at housework -- all the things a girl of her time is expected to be. What she is, though, is brilliant at math. And when she grow...

  • Sloth at the Zoom

    A laid-back sloth reminds an entire zoo to sloooow down One day, a sloth accidentally gets delivered to the Zoom! She was supposed to be dropped off at the Zzzzzoo, a much more laid-back, slow-paced place. She had been looking forward to long, langu...

  • The Fabulous Tale of Fish and Chips

    Joseph Malin loves his grandmother’s fried fish, which she makes according to an old family recipe. It’s so good, he thinks he might be able to make some money from it; money that his immigrant Jewish family desperately needs. He takes it into th...

  • Puffin and Penguin

    For fans of Owly and Unicorn and Yeti, a delightfully funny graphic novel from bestselling creators Helaine Becker and Kevin Sylvester.On his first day at his new school, Puffin is thrilled when Penguin is assigned to be his buddy – PenguinR...

  • Ode to Underwear

    Let the rump-us begin!With its cheeky pictures and riotous rhymes, Ode to Underwear gets behind that most overlooked, underappreciated wardrobe essential—underwear!In brief: Be prepared to laugh your butt off.[Excerpt]Let’s hear it fo...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Helaine Becker has published 19 books.

The next book by Helaine Becker, Ode to Underwear, will be published in January 2025.

The first book by Helaine Becker, Mama Likes to Mambo, was published in September 2001.

Yes. Helaine Becker has 1 series.
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