Iain Lawrence

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1998
  • Latest Book:
    August 2022
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Full Series List in Order

The Curse of the Jolly Stone Trilogy

1 - The Convicts (Apr-2005)
2 - The Cannibals (Nov-2005)
3 - The Castaways (Nov-2007)

The High Seas Trilogy

1 - The Wreckers (May-1998)
2 - The Smugglers (May-1999)
3 - The Buccaneers (Aug-2001)

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • The Wreckers

    The High Seas Trilogy - 1

    here John Spencer's adventures first begin... There was once a village bred by evil. On the barren coast of Cornwall, England, lived a community who prayed for shipwrecks, a community who lured storm-tossed ships to crash upon the sharp rocks of t...

  • The Smugglers

    The High Seas Trilogy - 2

    "Steer clear of that ship," warns the mysterious gentleman who shares the coach to Dover with John Spencer and his father. "Death she'll bring you," says the gentleman. "It's the way of a ship that was christened with blood." This is an ominous in...

  • Ghost Boy

    HAROLD KLINE IS AN ALBINO -- AN OUTCAST. FOLKS STARE and taunt, calling him Ghost Boy. So when the circus comes to town, Harold runs off to join it. Full of colorful performers, the circus seems like the answer to Harold's loneliness. He's eager t...

  • The Buccaneers

    The High Seas Trilogy - 3

    "There's pirates in the West Indies. Cannibals. They cook you alive," says Mr. Spencer to his son. These words will haunt seventeen-year-old John as he embarks on his first voyage to foreign lands. Carrying cargo destined for Jamaica, John and his cr...

  • Lord of the Nutcracker Men

    Ten-year-old Johnny eagerly plays at war with the army of nutcracker soldiers his toymaker father whittles for him. He demolishes imaginary foes. But in 1914 Germany looms as the real enemy of Europe, and all too soon Johnny’s father is swept up in...

  • The Lightkeeper's Daughter

    Three years have passed since Squid McCrae last saw her parents and the remote island where she grew up. She returns now at seventeen, a young woman with a daughter in tow. The visit, she knows, will be rough. Lizzie Islandâ€"paradise to some, a stif...

  • B for Buster

    Nicknamed after his hometown of Kakabeka, Canada, Kak dreams of flying with the Allied bombers in World War II. So at 16, underage and desperate to escape his abusive parents, he enlists in the Canadian Air Force. Soon he is trained as a wireless ope...

  • The Convicts

    The Curse of the Jolly Stone Trilogy - 1

    After seeing his father hauled off to debtor’s prison, Tom Tin sets out to take revenge on Mr. Goodfellow, the man responsible for his family’s misfortunes. But the fog-filled London streets are teeming with sinister characters. Tom encounters a ...

  • The Cannibals

    The Curse of the Jolly Stone Trilogy - 2

    As Tom Tin nears Australia, where he's to serve a lengthy sentence for a murder he didn't commit, he and his fellow convict, Midgely, plot their escape. No matter that the ship carrying them and the other juvenile criminals is captained by Tom's fath...



  • Gemini Summer

    EACH MEMBER OF the River family pursues a dream. But when a tragedy befalls the Rivers, it brings a halt to everyone’s dreams. Everyone but Danny. For he finally gets his dog. And not just any old dog, but a stray that he believes embodies the spir...

  • The Castaways

    The Curse of the Jolly Stone Trilogy - 3

    ADRIFT AT SEA, Tom Tin and his four convict companions are only too glad when they come upon a deserted ship. The boys clamber aboard, not knowing whether they've been saved or set on a course toward doom. But after rescuing two men stranded on a mel...

  • The Seance

    SCOOTER KING UNDERSTANDS illusions. In the midst of the Roaring Twenties, he performs them behind the scenes at his mother's seances, giving the impression that Madam King communicates with the dead. Scooter also admires Harry Houdini and can hardly ...

  • The Giant-Slayer

    "A girl's imagination transports polio-afflicted kids into a fantastic world." The spring of 1955 tests Laurie Valentine's gifts as a storyteller. After her friend Dickie contracts polio and finds himself confined to an iron lung, Laurie visits him ...

  • The Winter Pony

    In the forests of Siberia, in the first years of the 20th century, a white pony runs free with his herd. But his life changes forever when he's captured by men. Years of hard work and cruelty wear him out. When he's chosen to be one of 20 ponies to a...

  • The Skeleton Tree

    A modern-day adventure and classic in the making, in the vein of The Call of the Wild, Hatchet, and The Cay, by award-winning author Iain Lawrence. Less than forty-eight hours after twelve-year-old Chris sets off on a sailing trip down the Alaska...

  • Deadman's Castle

    For most of his life, Igor and his family have been on the run. Danger lurks around every corner--or so he's always been told. . . .When Igor was five, his father witnessed a terrible crime--and ever since, his whole family has been hunted by a foreb...

  • Fire on Headless Mountain

    Separated from his siblings, 11-year-old Virgil must survive a dangerous forest fire using only his wits and the lessons his late mother taught him about the wilderness.Virgil is making his older siblings trek to a mountain lake on a trip unlike any ...

Award-Winning Books by Iain Lawrence

Gemini Summer
2007 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award -- Regional Book


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Iain Lawrence has published 17 books.

Iain Lawrence does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Fire on Headless Mountain, was published in August 2022.

The first book by Iain Lawrence, The Wreckers, was published in May 1998.

Yes. Iain Lawrence has 2 series.
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