Jo Knowles

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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2007
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Jumping Off Swings

1 - Jumping Off Swings (Aug-2009)
2 - Living with Jackie Chan (Sep-2013)

Book List in Order: 11 titles

  • Lessons from a Dead Girl

    An unflinching story of a troubled friendship -- and one girl's struggle to come to terms with secrets and shame and find her own power to heal. Leah Greene is dead. For Laine, knowing what really happened and the awful feeling that she is, in som...

  • Jumping Off Swings

    Jumping Off Swings - 1

    Ellie remembers how the boys kissed her. Touched her. How they begged for more. And when she gave it to them, she felt loved. For a while anyway. So when Josh, an eager virgin with a troubled home life, leads her from a party to the backseat of his v...

  • Pearl

    Bean (née Pearl) and Henry, misfits and best friends, have the strangest mothers in town. Henry's mom Sally never leaves the house. Bean's mom Lexie, if she is home, is likely nursing a hangover or venting to her friend Claire about Bean's beloved gr...

  • See You at Harry's

    Starting middle school brings all the usual challenges - until the unthinkable happens, and Fern and her family must find a way to heal. Twelve-year-old Fern feels invisible. Her dad is always busy planning how to increase traffic to the family busi...

  • Living with Jackie Chan

    Jumping Off Swings - 2

    After fathering a baby, a teenager moves in with his karate-loving uncle and tries to come to terms with his guilt -- and find a way to forgive. This isn’t how Josh expected to spend senior year. He thought he’d be hanging out with his best ...

  • Read Between the Lines

    Does anyone ever see us for who we really are? Jo Knowles’s revelatory novel of interlocking stories peers behind the scrim as it follows nine teens and one teacher through a seemingly ordinary day. Thanks to a bully in gym class, unpopular Nate...

  • Still a Work in Progress

    In a return to middle-grade fiction, master of perspectives Jo Knowles depicts a younger sibling struggling to maintain his everyday life while coping with his sister's secret struggle. Noah is just trying to make it through seventh grade. The gir...

  • Where the Heart Is

    If home is where the heart is, what would happen if you lost it? Compassion and humor infuse the story of a family caught in financial crisis and a girl struggling to form her own identity. It’s the first day of summer and Rachel's thirteenth birth...

  • Ear Worm!

    A musical treat for the ear and eye, this antic tale of a worm on a mission doubles as a cozy bedtime book. One summer day, as Little Worm heads out to play, he discovers he has a song stuck in his head. ìWhatís that youíre singing?î Owl asks, bu...



  • Meant to Be

    In a companion to Where the Heart Is, the lens turns to younger sister Ivy as she fields the joys and pitfalls of new friendship, hones her passion for baking, and resists the idea of change. Ivy loves living in Applewood Heights. The family’s apar...

  • Someone's Gonna End Up Crying

    In this authentic and heartfelt middle-grade novel, Maple uses her artwork to help sort through sibling relationships, school drama, and her parents’ increasingly fraught marriage. Ten-year-old Maple can’t wait for summer: No more mat...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jo Knowles has published 11 books.

The next book by Jo Knowles, Someone's Gonna End Up Crying, will be published in June 2025.

The first book by Jo Knowles, Lessons from a Dead Girl, was published in October 2007.

Yes. Jo Knowles has 1 series.
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