Ron Koertge

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1994
  • Latest Book:
    September 2015
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Full Series List in Order

Shakespeare

1 - Shakespeare Bats Cleanup (Mar-2003)
2 - Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs (Mar-2010)

Stoner & Spaz

1 - Stoner & Spaz (May-2002)
2 - Now Playing (Aug-2011)

Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright

    Worried that his mother will send his beloved grandfather to a nursing home "for his own good," Jesse and some of his eighth-grade classmates accompany Pappy into the mountains near their small California town to look for the tiger tracks he claims t...

  • The Heart of the City

  • The Brimstone Journals

    In a startling, often poignant student journal, acclaimed poet and novelist Ron Koertge creates a suburban high school both familiar and terrifying.

    The Branston High School Class of 2001 seems familiar enough on the surface: there’s the Sma...

  • Stoner & Spaz

    Stoner & Spaz - 1

    A funny, in-your-face novel starring an unlikely teenage pair - a sheltered cinemaphile with cerebral palsy and the tattooed, straight-talking stoner who steals his heart. For sixteen-year-old Ben Bancroft - a kid with cerebral palsy, no parents, ...

  • Shakespeare Bats Cleanup

    Shakespeare - 1

    "This funny and poignant novel celebrates the power of writing to help young people make sense of their lives and unlock and confront their problems." --  School Library Journal (starred review)

    When MVP Kevin Boland gets the news that he h...

  • The Arizona Kid

    A trip out West to work at a racetrack -- and a sojourn with a sophisticated gay uncle -- bring unexpected discoveries in this quick-witted coming-of-age novel by the author of Stoner & Spaz and Margaux with an X.

    I was in the West. The...

  • Where the Kissing Never Stops

    Propelled by Ron Koertge's rapid-fire repartee, this is the funny and touching tale of a winningly honest protagonist discovering the perils and rewards of family, friendship, and romance.

    "Anyway," Sully said, "I've got just what you need to ...

  • Margaux with an X

    "A meticulously crafted story of an unexpected friendship." -- THE HORN BOOK (starred review)

    An American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults

    A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age...

  • Boy Girl Boy

    Larry, Teresa, and Elliot are so tight, there's no room in their circle for more than three: boy, girl, boy. And when they graduate, they plan to move to California to start their real lives--together. But who are they fooling? Larry is gay and tr...



  • Strays

    Could life as a foster kid lead to unexpected benefits? A teenager's link to animals gives way to human connection in a smart, incisive new novel. Sixteen-year-old Ted O'Connor's parents just died in a fiery car crash, and now he's stuck with a se...

  • Deadville

    Ron Koertge's spot-on repartee highlights the wry, poignant tale of a teen who is numbed by loss but finds an unusual route to reclaiming his life.

    Listening to music 24/7. Hanging out with his slacker-stoner friend, Andy. Basically, Ryan's be...

  • Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs

    Shakespeare - 2

    Fielding his social life is a bigger challenge for Kevin than hitting a fastball in Ron Koertge’s funny, insightful sequel to SHAKESPEARE BATS CLEANUP. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Boland has a passion for playing baseball, a knack for writing poetry...

  • Now Playing

    Stoner & Spaz - 2

    Quick repartee. Unsparing wit. Insight, poignancy, and spot-on characters. Welcome the much-awaited sequel to the acclaimed Stoner & Spaz. Beautiful but troubled Colleen Minou is the only girl who ever looked at Ben Bancroft as more than a spaz --...

  • Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses

    Writing in free verse honed to a wicked edge, the incomparable Ron Koertge brings dark and contemporary humor to twenty iconic fairy tales. Once upon a time, there was a strung-out match girl who sold CDs to stoners. Twelve impetuous sisters escap...

  • Coaltown Jesus

    When Jesus shows up in Walker’s life, healing triumphs over heartbreak in Koertge’s finest and funniest novel yet. Walker shouldn’t have been so surprised to find Jesus standing in the middle of his bedroom. After all, he’d prayed for whoe...

  • Sex World

    Ron Koertge eagerly tries his talented hand at Flash Fiction. In “BFF,” a teenage girl from the near-future orders friends from Amazon. A few pages later, a robot who travels what is left of the world and observes through “well-engineered eyes...

  • The Bodyguard: A Fable

    Powerful, riveting, and real. Sixteen celebrated authors bring us raw, insightful stories that explore guns and teens in a fiction collection that is thought provoking and emotionally gripping. For fans of Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock and Give a Bo...

  • Confess-O-Rama

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Tony has plenty of conversational material when he calls the confession phone number, after his mother's fourth husband dies and he finds himself attracted to a wacky girl who wears a black dress with padlocks....

Award-Winning Books by Ron Koertge

Stoner & Spaz
2003 PEN Literary Award -- Children/Young Adult
Strays
2008 PEN Literary Award -- Children/Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ron Koertge has published 18 books.

Ron Koertge does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Bodyguard: A Fable, was published in September 2015.

The first book by Ron Koertge, Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright, was published in March 1994.

Yes. Ron Koertge has 2 series.
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