Tim Tingle

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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2002
  • Latest Book:
    January 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Travis Lee

5 - Lester Graff (Aug-2009)
8 - Plane Crash at Buck Creek (Dec-2012)

Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • Song of the Night

  • The Collector

  • Return to Colombia

  • Texas Ghost Stories

    Storytelling World/Storytelling Magazine Award Winner"I love a book that gives me what it promises, and this one does: fifty real ghost stories, drawn from a variety of sources and told in as many voices, written so as to simulate the language and de...

  • Eye of the Sorcerer

    Travis Lee and Miranda Monroe are taken in by missionaries in Southern Colombia. While there, Travis recounts the events of his visit there twenty years earlier, and comes face to face with an old sorcerer bent on revenge. They face a danger more ter...

  • Spirits Dark and Light: Supernatural Tales from the Five Civilized Tribes

    Book of the Year in the Popular Culture category Finalist and Storytelling World Award Winner

    In the Native American tradition, a strong connection exists between the spi...

  • When Turtle Grew Feathers

    Maybe you think you know the story of the big race between Rabbit and Turtle. Think again! In this story from the Choctaw People, Tim Tingle shows that it was not being slow and steady that won Turtle the big race, it was those feathers!!!...

  • The Chosen One

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  • Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom

    When it was first published, Crossing Bok Chitto took readers by surprise. This moving and original story about the intersection of Native and African Americans received starred reviews and many awards, including being named an ALA Notable Childre...



  • Illusions

    This story is Part Four, in the continuing Travis Lee series. As you will remember from Part Three, ‘Eye of the Sorcerer’…    …Travis Lee had finally returned home from a harrowing experience in Colombia where he was working for his employ...

  • Lester Graff

    Travis Lee - 5

    Lester Graff is Part Five in the Travis Lee Series. In this story, while sitting around a camp fire, Travis recounts the strange tale told him by an old man years earlier. More than just a tale, it was the old man's dying confession to a life oversha...

  • Danny Blackgoat, Navajo Prisoner

    Danny Blackgoat is a teenager in Navajo country when soldiers burn down his home, kill his sheep and capture his family. During the Long Walk of 1864, Danny is labeled a troublemaker and given the name Fire Eye. Refusing to accept captivity, he is se...

  • Danny Blackgoat, Rugged Road to Freedom

    Danny Blackgoat, a Navajo teenager, was taken to a Civil War prison camp during the Long Walk of 1864. He escaped in volume one, Danny Blackgoat, Navajo Prisoner, but in this second installment, he must still face many obstacles in order to rescue hi...

  • Saltypie

    Bee stings on the backside! That was just the beginning. Tim was about to enter a world of the past, with bullying boys, stones and Indian spirits of long ago. But they were real spirits, real stones, very real memories…In this powerful family s...

  • Mapleleaf

    Travis Lee fi nally gets his fi rst novel (his baby) published, and thanks to a creative marketing ploy, it is destined to be a best seller. However, unforseen events threaten to to kill (the baby) his novels success. Travis, never one to sit and do ...

  • Letter to Belinda

    Travis Lee takes his son Drew to England for his senior trip, and at the same time, he feels out his new publisher, Jester Books. But the real story is what is going on back home in Alabama while they are gone. With five restless teenage children liv...

  • Plane Crash at Buck Creek

    Travis Lee - 8

    Travis Lee is out of work when his mine closes, but it doesnt take long to find a new job, while he and Joey are gone to Italy. In the meantime, back home in Alabama, his boys find that trouble can literally fall from the sky, when a drug smugglers...

  • How I Became a Ghost, Book 1

    Told in the words of Isaac, a Choctaw boy who does not survive the Trail of Tears, HOW I BECAME A GHOST is a tale of innocence and resilience in the face of tragedy. From the book's opening line, "Maybe you have never read a book written by a ghost b...

  • Inca Land

    Travis Lee begins his new career, as an insurance investigator, by doing a job in Venezuela, and then takes his son, Chris, on a vacation to visit Machu Picchu, in Peru. But with Travis, a vacation is never just a vacation, . . . it's an adventure....



  • The House of Purple Cedar

    "The hour has come to speak of troubled times. It is time we spoke of Skullyville." Thus begins Rose Goode's story of her growing up in Indian Territory in pre-statehood Oklahoma. Skullyville, a once-thriving Choctaw community, was destroyed by la...

  • Walking the Choctaw Road

    Oklahoma, or "Okla Homma," is a Choctaw word meaning "Red People." In this collection, acclaimed storyteller Tim Tingle tells the stories of his people, the Choctaw People, the Okla Homma. For years, Tim has collected stories o...

  • No Name

    Inspired by the traditional Choctaw story “No Name,” this modern adaptation features a present-day Choctaw teenager surviving tough family times -- his mother left home and he is living with a mean-spirited, abusive father. The one place the teen...

  • A Head in Egypt

    After the 911 attacks, Travis is recruited to come out of retirement, and back into service with The Agency. He is given a strange and dangerous mission in Egypt, which, if successful, could be a major blow in their War on Terrorism. But if he fails,...

  • How I Became a Ghost

    Told in the words of Isaac, a Choctaw boy who does not survive the Trail of Tears, How I Became a Ghost is a tale of innocence and resilience in the face of tragedy. From the opening line, “Maybe you have never read a book written by a ghost be...

  • The Emerald Anaconda

    Travis is persuaded by a lifelong friend to invest in potentially valuable property in the rain forest of Ecuador. The return on their investment is virtually guaranteed. But nothing can be so simple when Travis gets involved. Trouble catches up with...

  • A Place in the Sun

    While on vacation in Costa Rica with his wife and friends, Travis Lee, also tries to fulfill a promise to his uncle. He is instructed to find a property that was given to his uncle, and to sell it. Not even knowing for sure if the property exists, he...

  • Danny Blackgoat, Dangerous Passage

    During the Civil War, the United States Army imprisoned thousands of Navajos in unsafe conditions at Fort Sumner. Through the eyes of teenager Danny Blackgoat, we experience their struggle to survive. In this third Danny Blackgoat novel, which comple...

  • No More No Name

    Bobby Byington has always had to navigate his father’s alcoholism and anger, but things are looking up. His father has stopped drinking, his mother is back home, and his basketball team is winning games. But two new problems surface when his "smart...

  • A Name Earned

    After overcoming years of trouble with his alcoholic father and surviving a near-death car accident, Bobby Byington―for the first time in his life―has a strong family. His parents are reunited, his father has turned away from the bottle, and Bobb...



  • When a Ghost Talks, Listen

    As Book 2 in Tim Tingle's award-winning How I Became A Ghost Series begins, his family continues the long walk to Indian Territory, and ten-year-old Isaac, our narrator and now a ghost, meets the famed Choctaw Chief and U.S. Army General Pushmataha. ...

  • Trust Your Name

    After Bobby Byington's unforgettable winning high-school season, Coach Robison recruits Choctaw players from several communities to play in a summer league. Coach selects the Panther as the team's mascot, saying, "To many Choctaws, young and old, th...

  • Stone River Crossing

    In an expansion of his award-winning picture book Crossing Bok Chitto, acclaimed Choctaw storyteller Tim Tingle offers a novel that reminds readers that the strongest bridge between cultures is friendship.


    Starred review, Publishers Weekly...

  • Doc and the Detective in Graveyard Treasure

    A Choctaw boy with a taste for detective work teams up with a lonely old professor in this charming middle-grade mystery from a two-time winner of the American Indian Youth Literature Award.

    Timmy loves reading stories about great dete...

  • Name Your Mountain

    Name Your Mountain continues the exciting No Name series as the high-school team matures and faces new challenges. When the all American Indian high-school basketball team in Trust Your Name enters a national-level tournament, the team travels to big...

  • Through the Door

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Award-Winning Books by Tim Tingle

Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom
2008 American Indian Youth Literature Award -- Picture Book
The House of Purple Cedar
2016 American Indian Youth Literature Award -- Young Adult
How I Became a Ghost, Book 1
2014 American Indian Youth Literature Award -- Middle School


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Tim Tingle has published 35 books.

Tim Tingle does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Name Your Mountain, was published in January 2021.

The first book by Tim Tingle, Song of the Night, was published in March 2002.

Yes. Tim Tingle has 1 series.
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