Jean Thesman

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1984
  • Latest Book:
    April 2005
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Full Series List in Order

Elliot Cousins

1 - Jamie (May-1998)
3 - Teresa (Jul-1998)

The Ornament Tree

1 - Ornament Tree (Mar-1998)
2 - The Tree Of Bells ()

Whitney Cousins

1 - Heather (May-1990)
2 - Amelia (Apr-1990)
3 - Erin (Apr-1990)
4 - Triple Trouble (Sep-1992)

Multi-Author Series List

Caprice

47 - New Kid in Town (Aug-1984)
69 - Two Letters for Jenny (Jun-1985)
77 - A Secret Love (Oct-1985)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • New Kid in Town

    Caprice - 47

    Kathy Price quickly found out changing schools was extra rough, especially with someone like Liz Harper around. Liz was the most popular girl in school and no-one got in her way - except Kathy. Kathy did have one thing going for her and that was t...

  • Two Letters for Jenny

    Caprice - 69

  • A Secret Love

    Caprice - 77

    Jocelin thought it was really super to be part of her best friend's family. But when Trudy's gorgeous, six-foot-four cousin Matt moved in, Jocelin couldn't decide whether to consider him a "relative" or a new love! But there was something mysterio...

  • Running Scared

    Journeying by bus to her grandmother's country home with her young cousin Jasper, Caroline discovers a sinister package that brings danger to her, Jasper, and David, a handsome young man also traveling by bus...

  • Was It Something I Said

  • The Last April Dancers

  • Couldn't I Start Over?

    Shiloh, a fifteen-year-old smart-alecky know-it-all, is taught a few lessons when she befriends manipulative newcomer Lovey Sullivan, who steals her best friend, a prospective boyfriend, and a starring role in a musical festival...

  • Amelia

    Whitney Cousins - 2

  • Erin

    Whitney Cousins - 3

    After her parents are killed by a drunk driver, embittered Erin is shuttled among her relatives for years until she comes to live with her cousin's family, where she is challenged to love despite her hostility...



  • Heather

    Whitney Cousins - 1

    “HERE'S TO US, THE WHITNEY GIRLS!” Heather, Amelia and Erin raised their juice glasses in a toast. Cousins by birth and friends by choice, they know they can always count on each other -- even when the miles separate them. Here is Heather's st...

  • The Rain Catchers

  • Appointment With a Stranger

    Deeply self-concious about her severe asthma attacks, high school student Keller Parrish finds solace in the company of an attractive but mysterious boy at a remote pond, unaware that he is an insubstantial echo of a forty-year-old tragedy...

  • When Does the Fun Start?

  • Who Said Life Is Fair?

  • When the Road Ends

    Three children--rebellious Adam; stubborn, sensible Mary Jack; and a little girl who refuses to speak--are thrown together when they move into a foster home run by "Aunt Cecile," a woman recovering from an accident that had killed her husband....

  • I'm Not Telling

    Meeting at a birthday party for all the kids born on the same day and in the same hospital, Jill, Ceegee, and Nancy become fast friends, but the arrival of another party guest puts a damper on their high spirits. Original....

  • Mirror, Mirror

    Enjoying her new-found friends, Jill and Nancy, Ceegee is happy she has come to the communal birthday party given for all the kids born on the same day, until someone shows up who manages to ruin everyone's fun. ...

  • Who Am I, Anyway?

    Not even her happiness at meeting two new friends, Ceegee and Jill, at the communal birthday party can keep Nancy from being crushed when she accidentally overhears a secret from her own past. Original....

  • Triple Trouble

    Whitney Cousins - 4



  • Rachel Chance

    When someone kidnaps her brother, Rider, fifteen-year-old Rachel Chance is certain that Pastor Woodie, the clergyman in her Bible thumping town, has something to do with Rider's disappearance, and she takes matters into her own hands. Reprint....

  • Molly Donnelly

    On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and the world changed forever. It was the beginning of World War II and for Molly Donnelly, it was the end of childhood. Men went to war, women went to work in factories, and girls Molly's age to...

  • Nothing Grows Here

    Everything changed abruptly when her father died, but the loss of the garden they had planted together haunts Maryanne still. It is not until she is able to get her hands in the soil and plant her own garden that Maryanne truly begins to grow again h...

  • Summerspell

    Living with her sister and brother-in-law after the death of her grandparents, Jocelyn finds her world shattered when her brother-in-law abuses her and forces her to run away to the family summer cabin until her custody arrangements can be changed....

  • Cattail Moon

    Hearing a musical, enchanting voice coming to her from across the marshes, Julia rushes out and briefly glimpses a beautiful, white-clad figure and is drawn into the mystery of the unknown girl and a boy named Luke. Reprint....

  • The Storyteller's Daughter

  • Ornament Tree

    The Ornament Tree - 1

    Bonnie Shaster, fourteen years old and recently orphaned,has happily come to live with her mother's family in Seattle,never expecting to find such chaos. Her charming, hapless relatives have been forced to take in gentleman boarders to make ends meet...

  • Jamie

    Elliot Cousins - 1

    In the first installment of a new trilogy about three fifteen-year-old cousins, Jamie does not know how to break up with her rude, conceited boyfriend, but is too embarrassed to share her problem. Original....

  • Meredith

    Stealing her boyfriend is not enough for Meredith's old "friend" Patty, who seems intent on drawing her new friend, Carter, away from her too, a matter that Meredith finds difficult to share even with her close cousins, Jamie and Teresa. Original....

  • Teresa

    Elliot Cousins - 3

    Forbidden to date by her mother, fifteen-year-old Teresa feels isolated from her luckier cousins, Meredith and Jamie, and has little hope of pairing up with tall, blue-eyed Ian, unless he can win over her mother. Original....



  • The Other Ones

    Bridget Raynes is a witch. For as long as she can remember, Bridget has been able to do things other people can't -- read minds, move objects without touching them, hear the songs and stories the wind and rain tell. She has pushed her powers down ...

  • The Moonstones

    While helping her mother clean out the family home in Puget Sound, fifteen-year-old Jane must deal with her hateful aunt and difficult cousin Ricki, a romance that cannot last, and secrets from her mother's past....

  • Calling the Swan

    For years, since something dreadful happened to the Deacon family, Skylar Deacon's parents have hated to let her out of their sight for even a moment, and now, going to summer school, facing kids she does not know and the truth about what happened to...

  • In the House of Queen's Beasts

  • Between

    While staying with family friends at their hotel on the edge of Puget Sound, Charlotte Thacker discovers that the nearby forest called Darkwood is actually a mystical home to griffins, unicorns, dragons, and wyverns, and her adopted brother Will, who...

  • Rising Tide

    Set in San Francisco in 1908, the sequel to A Sea So Far finds Kate Keely and her friend Ellen renting a small shop to sell beautiful handmade Irish linens and dresses, but in order to run a successful business, they must overcome many challe...

  • A Sea So Far

    Set in San Francisco in the early 1900s, orphaned Kate walks her way into the life of sickly Jolie as her maid and nurse, and soon the two become friends and head out on an adventure to Ireland where Kate must remain quiet about the secret she has be...

  • Singer

    Having been hidden in an abbey for years in order to be protected from her evil mother Rhiamon, Gwenore is forced to flee the abbey and change her name after her whereabouts are discovered, but despite a new identity, a king for a husband, and severa...

  • The Tree Of Bells

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    The Ornament Tree - 2

    After her friend Bonnie leaves for college, Clare is left to face her fears of her future alone, but when she meets an abused child and his dog, she suddenly discovers what her calling is in life and no longer has fears of what tomorrow will bring....

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jean Thesman has published 38 books.

Jean Thesman does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Singer, was published in April 2005.

The first book by Jean Thesman, New Kid in Town, was published in August 1984.

Yes. Jean Thesman has 3 series.
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