Karen McCombie

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  • Bibliography:
    82 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2001
  • Latest Book:
    May 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Ally's World

1 - Past, the Present and the Loud, Loud Girl (Aug-2001)
2 - Dates, Double Dates and Big, Big Trouble (Aug-2001)
3 - Butterflies, Bullies and Bad, Bad Habits (Oct-2001)
4 - Friends, Freak-outs and Very Secret Secrets (Jan-2002)
5 - Boys, Brothers and Jelly-Belly Dancing (Aug-2006)
6 - Sisters, Super-creeps and Slushy, Gushy Love Songs (May-2002)
7 - Parties, Predicaments and Undercover Pets (Jul-2002)
8 - Tattoos, Telltales and Terrible, Terrible Twins (Sep-2002)
9 - Mates, Mysteries and Pretty Weird Weirdness (Nov-2002)
10 - Daisy, Dad and the Huge, Small Surprise (Mar-2003)
11 - Rainbows, Rowan and True, True Romance(?) (Jun-2003)
12 - Visitors, Vanishings and Va-Va-Va Voom (Aug-2003)
13 - Crushes, Cliques and the Cool, School Trip (Feb-2004)
14 - Hassles, Heart-pings!, and Sad, Happy Endings (May-2004)
Ally's World ()
Marshmallow Magic and the Wild Rose Rouge (Oct-2008)

Ally's World: Special

1 - Sunshine, Sunburn and Not-So-Sweet-Nothings (Jun-2006)
2 - Angels, Arguments and a Furry, Merry Christmas (Nov-2002)

Angels Next Door

1 - Angels Next Door (Apr-2014)
2 - Angels in Training (Aug-2014)
3 - Angels Like Me (Mar-2015)

Indie Kidd

1 - How to Be Good (ish) (May-2005)
2 - Oops, I Lost My Best (est) Friends (Apr-2007)
3 - Being Grown-Up is Cool (Not!) (Oct-2005)
4 - Are We Having Fun Yet (Hmmm?) (Apr-2007)
5 - Wow, I'm a Gazillionaire! (I Wish) (Nov-2006)
6 - My Big (Strange) Happy Family! (Oct-2008)
7 - Me and the School (Un) Fair (Jul-2008)
My (Most Excellent) Guide to Best Friends (Jun-2009)

Indie Kidd: Special

My (Most Excellent) Pet Project (May-2008)

Sadie Rocks

Deep Joy, or Something Like It (Feb-2008)
Happiness, and All That Stuff (Feb-2008)
It's All Good (in Your Dreams) (Feb-2009)
Smile! It's Meant to be Fun (May-2009)

Stella Etc.

1 - Frankie, Peaches and Me (May-2004)
2 - Sweet-Talking TJ (Aug-2004)
3 - Meet the Real World, Rachel (Nov-2004)
4 - Truly, Madly Megan (Apr-2005)
5 - Amber and the Hot Pepper Jelly (Sep-2005)
6 - Twists, Turns and 100% Tilda (Mar-2006)
7 - Forever and Ever and Evie (Feb-2007)

Wonderland

Winter Wonderland (Oct-2002)
Wonderland (Nov-2006)

You, Me and Thing

1 - The Curse of the Jelly Babies (Jul-2012)
2 - The Dreaded Noodle-Doodles (Jan-2012)
3 - The Legend of the Loch Ness Lilo (Jul-2012)
4 - The Mummy That Went Moo (Apr-2013)

Book List in Order: 82 titles

  • Dates, Double Dates and Big, Big Trouble

    Ally's World - 2

    Ally's feeling inadequate. Why is it that her only romantic experience amounts to a burping-in-mouth scenario with Keith Brownlow? Kyra's only been in Crough End two seconds and she's got a boyfriend already! Even Ally's dad seems to be 'dating'-whic...

  • Past, the Present and the Loud, Loud Girl

    Ally's World - 1

    Are other thirteen-year-old girl's lives this stressful? Ally's got a list as long as her arm of things to worry about. First of all, it's enough just to get by, living in a madhouse (well, more of a cross between an animal hospital and something out...

  • Butterflies, Bullies and Bad, Bad Habits

    Ally's World - 3

    Ally's worried about money. Or rather, the lack of it. Her big sister Linn has gone and got herself a Saturday job so she can help out, but Ally's too young to get a job...unless. Well, unless economical with the truth and goes for that job helping o...

  • Friends, Freak-outs and Very Secret Secrets

    Ally's World - 4

    Ally's feeling confused, she seems to have developed a Siamese twin - Sandie. Suddenly Sandie's got the same hairstyle as her, the same outfit and is apparently permanently attached to Ally's arm. As if that wasn't enough, she also has the Nightmare ...

  • My Funny Valentine

    Shaunna's a romantic. The problem is, no 16-year-old boy seems to share her view of romance. In fact, judging by her friends' relationships, it seems most of them can't even manage to pick up the phone to call them, let alone anything else. Then Shau...

  • Love Is the Drug

  • Sisters, Super-creeps and Slushy, Gushy Love Songs

    Ally's World - 6

  • Blissed Out

    When Molly's lovely boyfriend Dean asks her to go away with him for their one-year anniversary, she's deliriously blissed out. But a few small potential problems bring her swiftly back down to earth. One, she's already agreed to go on holiday with he...

  • My Sister, the Superbitch

    It's not as though Faith and I have ever been big buddies. But just recently she's been getting worse, much worse. It's gone from annoying but manageable digs to full-on bitching in front of her mates. It's as if just looking at me annoys her somehow...



  • Parties, Predicaments and Undercover Pets

    Ally's World - 7

    Oh dear, Kyra's come up with the oh-so-fantastic idea that she would make a good pet-owner. She seems to think everything will be better if she can only keep her new pet Siamese kitten. That is, keep it, and keep it secret-from her mum and dad, Mrs F...

  • Tattoos, Telltales and Terrible, Terrible Twins

    Ally's World - 8

    Ally's had it up to here. She was quite prepared to give her long-lost uncle and his family the benefit of the doubt,but that was before she met them. After two days of Uncle Joe's over-enthusiastic back-slapping; cousin charlie (make that spawn-of-t...

  • Winter Wonderland

    Wonderland

    Jude is fed up. Why is it that all the men in her life treat her badly? why is it that she just can't seem to find that nice, normal bloke like her friends' boyfriends-rather than unconsciously homing in on any two-timing git in the vicinity? Even he...

  • Angels, Arguments and a Furry, Merry Christmas

    Ally's World: Special - 2

    Ally loves Christmas - it's just a shame the Loves don't really have the money to celebrate properly. Never fear, Rowan's creative spirit will find a way ...a feather boa as a wreath? Er, very festive, Ro. Still, the last week of school's going to be...

  • Mates, Mysteries and Pretty Weird Weirdness

    Ally's World - 9

    Ally's not normally superstitious,but something freaky's happening in Crouch End. She knows her home is usually a complete madhouse, but lately it's even madder-paintings upside down,milk turning green, Winslet appearing as a ghostly apparition, cove...

  • Daisy, Dad and the Huge, Small Surprise

    Ally's World - 10

    Love is in the air! Billy and Sandie are getting a bit sick-makingly gooey, Grandma and Stanley are getting hitched, and Dad and Tor's new teacher are getting along just a little too well...As for me, Rowan and Linn, we're just getting scared-Grandma...

  • Rainbows, Rowan and True, True Romance(?)

    Ally's World - 11

    Alfie, Alfie, Alfie...how deeply cool can one boy be? And not only is he drop-dead yum, but he's sweet and kind and has single-handedly turned Rowan into a local celeb! So why is Linn less than chuffed about this? And, um, why do I find myself taking...

  • Visitors, Vanishings and Va-Va-Va Voom

    Ally's World - 12

    Ally and her mates are most chuffed when a bunch of delicieuse French boys turn up at Palace Gates school because of a French exchange. (Well, OK, they're not all delicieuse, but still...) Only Jen seems a bit distracted, but Ally doesn't have time t...

  • Crushes, Cliques and the Cool, School Trip

    Ally's World - 13

  • Frankie, Peaches and Me

    Stella Etc. - 1

    Stella, along with her mun, dad and mildly mad twin brothers, has just moved from buzzy Kentish Town to the sleeeeepy seaside town of Portbay. Not only has she had to leave her best mate Frankie behind but she's also kissed goodbye to Seb - only the ...



  • Hassles, Heart-pings!, and Sad, Happy Endings

    Ally's World - 14

    It's all change in Ally's world in this, the last in the series. Ally's totally gobsmacked when she finds out that her best mate Sandie's moving away and even more shocked to find that Linn is considering going to university miles away from home. She...

  • Sweet-Talking TJ

    Stella Etc. - 2

    When Stella first sees TJ he's being attacked by a psycho seagull, but she immediately thinks he has potential as a mate. And when they get chatting, she's not disappointed. but she is disappointed when she mext sees him and he blanks her. Maybe it's...

  • Meet the Real World, Rachel

    Stella Etc. - 3

    Hurray, Stella now has a small 'etc' (small and sccruffy TJ, and fat and furry Peaches), but Portbay doesn't yet feel quite like home. Maybe because popular cliquey Rachel and her sheep-like friends seem to always make a point of how Stella doesn't b...

  • Truly, Madly Megan

    Stella Etc. - 4

    Megan whirls into Stella's life like the crazy cartwheeler she is. And she's going to whirl right out again, soon as her holiday in Portbay's over. But that doesn't mean that she, TJ, Rachel and Stella can't have some fun at the Portbay Gala before s...

  • How to Be Good (ish)

    Indie Kidd - 1

    Meet Indie Kidd, who is celebrating her 10th birthday. Or she would be celebrating if it weren't for a horrible school project. Indie's teacher loves making lists and wants the students to list their top three talents. Never mind three talents, Indie...

  • Amber and the Hot Pepper Jelly

    Stella Etc. - 5

    Meet the Teen Queen of Shyness! Amber has all the self-confidence of a very timid slug, so it's up to Stella to work some makeover magic. And with a bit of luck and a dollop of blackmail, she might just do it. A sea-sidey, sun-shiney series from the ...

  • Being Grown-Up is Cool (Not!)

    Indie Kidd - 3

    INDIE KIDD CAN'T wait to be a cool grown-up. Actually, she wants to be a cool grown-up right now. Lately Indie's mother has been acting weird and treating her like she's a little kid. Indie thinks it would be cool to get a job and live wherever she w...

  • Twists, Turns and 100% Tilda

    Stella Etc. - 6

    Tilda is Portbay's resident gloomy goth - and Stella can't decide whether she should be fascinated by her stripy tights and tutu comboo, or freaked out by her unfriendliness. But Tilda is not the only strangeness afoot in not-so-sleepy Portbay. There...

  • Sunshine, Sunburn and Not-So-Sweet-Nothings

    Ally's World: Special - 1

  • Boys, Brothers and Jelly-Belly Dancing

    Ally's World - 5

    So there I was, thinking that the last week of school would be mega-fun. OK, well, more fun than usual. Could I have been more wrong? Urm, no. I mean, next-door's barbecue degenerates into a sausage fight, I nearly have to call the RSPCA on Kyra, the...



  • Wonderland

    Wonderland

    Jude's never had much luck with boys. In fact, all the blokes in her life seem to be allergic to treating her right - including her dad...Then she meets Gareth. He's not like the others: he's sensitive, caring and actually listens to her. Could it be...

  • Wow, I'm a Gazillionaire! (I Wish)

    Indie Kidd - 5

  • Forever and Ever and Evie

    Stella Etc. - 7

    Home Sweet ...Home? Stella's back in London to see her old mates - yay! - and do a sneaky bit of detective work. But with a family mystery to solve, and Portbay weirdness following her every move, her big reunion isn't exactly turning out as planned....

  • Are We Having Fun Yet (Hmmm?)

    Indie Kidd - 4

    Indie Kidd is simply crazy about animals. She feels terrible when her best(est) friend Fee’s cat is run over. Poor Fee is lost without her beloved pet, Garfield. Indie will do anything to help her supersad friend feel glad again. She’s ready to p...

  • Oops, I Lost My Best (est) Friends

    Indie Kidd - 2

    There's no way Indie Kidd would ever want to be without her best(est) friends, Soph and Fee. Indie knows how much fun it is having friends, so she gets to work on the very important project of helping her stepbrother Dylan make some best friends of h...

  • An Urgent Message of Wowness

    Somebody stop the mayhem! Heather thinks everyone in her family comes from Planet Perfect. Everyone except her, that is. Then dad drops a bombshell, and the world turns upside down...Life's become surprising, exciting and just a little bit mad - but ...

  • Deep Joy, or Something Like It

    Sadie Rocks

    Attack of the cheesy grins! Naff dance-routines, corny tunes and Psychedelic shorts galore - yep, having a brother in a boy-band is big time cringey. Still, Sadie can't help wondering ...what would life be like if she was the centre of attention?...

  • Happiness, and All That Stuff

    Sadie Rocks

    Sadie isn't anything like her stage-school obsessed twin brother, Sonny. She's not into sing-a-longs or smiley faces or group hug. Sonny wants to be a superstar. Sadie just wants a quiet life. But when a girl's surrounded by nutcases, maybe that's th...

  • My (Most Excellent) Pet Project

    Indie Kidd: Special

    Indie Kidd : My (Most Excellent) Pet Project
    Indie Kidd is potty about pets - her school project is crawling with them! Pore over these crazy pages for Indie's animal advice, stories of her pets, plus freaky facts about creatures great and small. ...

  • The Seventeen Secrets of the Karma Club



  • Me and the School (Un) Fair

    Indie Kidd - 7

    This title is seventh in the pet-tastic series about ten-year-old Indie Kidd and friends!It's all hands on deck when Miss Levy announces plans for the School Fair. Indie Kidd soon sets to work, rallying round her furry friends at the Animal Rescue Ce...

  • Marshmallow Magic and the Wild Rose Rouge

    Ally's World

    Everything about Lemmie Ferguson's life is bright and shiny and sunny - her special way of looking at the world means she sees it in vivid, rainbow-hued technicolour. Lemmie's eighteen-year-old sister, the spontaneous, sparkly Rose Rouge, calls it ma...

  • My Big (Strange) Happy Family!

    Indie Kidd - 6

  • It's All Good (in Your Dreams)

    Sadie Rocks

  • Smile! It's Meant to be Fun

    Sadie Rocks

  • My (Most Excellent) Guide to Best Friends

    Indie Kidd

    Indie Kidd's (Most Excellent) Best Friends Guide
    Featuring all-new stories and information, this bonus book in the hilarious Indie Kidd series is an essential guide to making and keeping best friends A? in whatever shape or size they come! Indie a...

  • The Raspberry Rules

  • In Sarah's Shadow

    Sisters â€" one of the closest relationships in the world? Megan and Sarah wouldn’t agree…MEGAN'S STORY: Megan is constantly in her big sister's shadow. Prettier, smarter, funnier, Sarah has it all; the adoration of their parents, a great group o...

  • The Dreaded Noodle-Doodles

    You, Me and Thing - 2

    Want to know a secret? There is something very, very strange living in the trees behind my house. If you tiptoe slowwwwly and quietly (ssh!) to the bottom of my garden, you might hear it rustling and rootling and 'peh!'ing in the dark undergrowth, on...

  • Candy Girl



  • The Curse of the Jelly Babies

    You, Me and Thing - 1

    Neighbours Ruby and Jackson get the surprise of their lives when they discover a Thing living at the bottom of their gardens. And when Thing places a curse on the inhabitants of the new house that's been built over his old home, Ruby and Jackson find...

  • The Legend of the Loch Ness Lilo

    You, Me and Thing - 3

    Ruby and Jackson get the surprise of their lives when they discover a Thing living at the bottom of their gardens. But Thing is cute and funny, even if sometimes, when he's upset, he gets a bit ARRGHH! And that's when the trouble starts. Like the tim...

  • The Mummy That Went Moo

    You, Me and Thing - 4

    Want to know a secret? There is something very, very strange living in the trees behind my house. If you tiptoe slowwwwly and quietly (ssh!) to the bottom of my garden, you might hear it rustling and rootling and 'peh!'ing in the dark undergrowth, on...

  • You Me and Thing

    Two great books in one featuring magic, mix-ups and muddles! Join Ruby, Jackson and Thing on not one but two great adventures in this brilliant bumper book. See what havoc Thing causes when Ruby and Jackson sneak it along on a trip to the pet...

  • Angels Next Door

    Angels Next Door - 1

    Angels Next Door is a gorgeous new magical friendship series for 8+ readers by bestselling author, Karen McCombie.Riley's best friend has gone away forever and Lauren 'Queen of Everything' Mayhew is making school a nightmare. It looks like Riley's on...

  • The Girl Who Wasn't There

    A story of friendship and ghostly mystery from one of the best-loved UK writers for girls. Maisie's dad has a new job as live-in caretaker of a Victorian school. Finding it hard to make friends, things change when Maisie tells her new classmates abou...

  • Angels in Training

    Angels Next Door - 2

    The second book in the gorgeous new magical friendship series, Angels Next Door, by bestselling author Karen McCombieRiley's life has changed a lot since she discovered the Angelos sister's secret. You see her new neighbours are a little bit . . . ma...

  • The Girl With The Sunshine Smile

    A brand-new 4u2read edition of a wonderfully warm and wise story about new families and new relationships from bestelling author Karen McCombie.Meg is the girl with the sunshine smile. That''s what they call her at the wedding fairs where she models ...

  • Life According To... Alice B. Lovely

    Edie Evans is sick of being treated like a kid. And she doesn't, repeat, doesn't need a babysitter! And then along comes the strange, the shy, the captivating Alice B. Lovely. But is Alice B. Lovely too good to be true? But then maybe all that matter...

  • When the Tooth Fairy Forgot

    Get ready to read! LITTLE RED ROBINS are ideal for sharing and reading together. Full colour illustrations. When Eddie's tooth falls out at school, he can't wait to tell his mum and dad and to put it under his pillow for the tooth fairy. But what if ...

  • Angels Like Me

    Angels Next Door - 3

    Angels Like Me is the third title in the enchanting and magical friendship series from bestselling author Karen McCombie that began with Angels Next Door.Riley's best friends, the Angelo sisters, are special. Sparkly, strange and full of secrets . . ...

  • Catching Falling Stars

    It's 1940. Gloria and her brother have been evacuated to the countryside to get away from the dangers of the Blitz in London. Their new home isn't as friendly as they'd hoped. But Gloria quickly learns that nothing is ever as it seems in this strange...

  • The OMG Blog

    A lighthearted tale of vlogging newbies from queen of tween Karen McCombie, wrapped up in a stunning package bound to appeal to fans of instagram, Snapchat and Zoella. Heartwarming and affirmative, this cracking new Conker has family and friendship o...

  • The Whispers of Wilderwood Hall

    Ellis is losing track of time... Following her mother's marriage to a famous rock star, Ellis moves to a crumbling old mansion in the wilds of Scotland. Far away from her friends and familiarity, she finds waves of anxiety rolling in and threatening ...

  • St. Grizzle's School for Girls, Goats and Random Boys

    When Dani's mum gets the chance to study penguins in the Antarctic, she decides the best place for eleven-year-old Dani is a strict girls' boarding school where â€" uh-oh! â€" students wear smart uniforms that includes SKIRTS!

    Havi...

  • The Pearl in the Attic

    Scarlet finds a real treasure in her grandma's flat: a novel that her gran wrote, imagining the life of a girl just like Scarlet. But as Scarlet reads about Ruby's life in Victorian London, she begins to realise this is no piece of fiction - Ruby was...

  • The Mystery Of Me

    Karen McCombie explores identity, friendship and fresh starts in this touching tale perfectly pitched for struggling teen readers.Karen McCombie explores identity, friendship and fresh starts in this touching tale perfectly pitched for struggling tee...

  • St. Grizzle's School for Girls, Ghosts and Runaway Grannies

    When local schools are asked to make a film showcasing the surrounding area, Dani and the rest of St Grizzle's set to work. But Spencer and his mates at the village school are determined to sabotage the work of the smelly Grizzlers.To Dani's ...

  • St. Grizzle's School for Girls, Geeks and Tag-along Zombies

    When Arch turns up at St Grizzle's having run away from home, Dani is delighted to introduce her best friend to her new classmates, only to discover that mixing her old life with her new one isn't quite as easy as she'd imagined. And Arch isn't the o...

  • St. Grizzle's School for Girls, Gremlins and Pesky Guests

    When a flood closes the village school, Lulu invites the staff and pupils to come and join them at St Grizzle's. Dani and her friends can't believe their bad luck â€" it was awful enough bumping into Spencer and his cronies in the village but now the...

  • Little Bird Flies

    Nominated for the 2020 CILIP Carnegie MedalBridie lives on the remote Scottish island of Tornish, the youngest of three sisters. Although she loves her island, with its wild seas and big skies, she guiltily nurses a secret dream of flight - to Americ...

  • Little Bird Lands

    Little Bird has landed in America, far from her home in Scotland and far from the danger that stalked her family. But the new world holds new perils, and soon she's on the run again. From the teeming streets of New York to the prairies of the west, L...

  • The Lost Diary of Sami Star

    A wonderfully warm and touching story of friendship, identity and kindness from top-notch tween author Karen McCombie.Being at home is hard for Hannah. With Mum, Dad and Vix always fighting they've got no time for her or her worries, she might as wel...

  • The Girl with her Head in the Clouds

    Pioneering aviatrix Dolly Shepherd comes alive in this thrilling reimagining of her death-defying exploits from bestelling author Karen McCombie.When sixteen-year-old Dolly Shepherd is offered the chance to take to the sky in a hot-air balloon, there...

  • How To Be A Human

    Who said friends have to match to matter?When the Star Boy's space-pod crashes in the grounds of Fairfield Academy he knows he must seek shelter. Taking refuge in the school's boiler room to await rescue he discovers that the room's small window is t...

  • Granny's Little Monsters

  • Fagin's Girl

    Fagin’s infamous gang comes to life once again in this exciting Oliver Twist-inspired adventure from bestselling author Karen McCombie.Orphan Ettie Shaw is penniless and homeless on the streets of London when she is spotted by her older brother Joe...

  • How to Hide an Alien

    Life isn't easy, especially if you're from another planet…

    With his space-pod destroyed, the Star Boy is adapting to life on Earth with help from his friends Kiki and Wes, but Kiki's long list of don'ts is a constant remi...

  • The Mystery in Flat 6B

    Book Band: Dark Blue, ideal for ages 9+

    A heart-warming story about friendship and finding your place in the world set in an urban city, ideal for children practising their reading at home or in school.

    Twelve-year-old JoJo is g...

  • The Broken Dragon

    A smashed china dragon helps Tyra to bond with her new classmates in this touching tale from bestselling author Karen McCombie.Tyra gets off to a tough start at her new school. She’s loud and different and nobody seems to be particularly friendly. ...

  • The Boy Who Stole the Pharaoh's Lunch

    Seth learns some important life lessons when he's transported back to Ancient Egypt in this absorbing time-slip adventure from bestselling author Karen McCombie.While awaiting punishment in his headmaster’s office for his latest piece of mischief, ...

  • Ally's World

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  • Six Words and a Wish

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Karen McCombie has published 82 books.

Karen McCombie does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Boy Who Stole the Pharaoh's Lunch, was published in May 2023.

The first book by Karen McCombie, Dates, Double Dates and Big, Big Trouble, was published in August 2001.

Yes. Karen McCombie has 9 series.
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