Tommy Greenwald

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2011
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Charlie Joe Jackson

1 - Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading (Jul-2011)
2 - Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Extra Credit (Aug-2012)
3 - Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Summer Vacation (May-2013)
4 - Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Making Money (Sep-2014)
5 - Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Planet Girl (Aug-2015)
6 - Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Growing Up (Aug-2016)

Crimebiters!

1 - My Dog Is Better Than Your Dog (Oct-2015)
2 - It's a Doggy Dog World (Oct-2016)
3 - Dog Day Afterschool (Oct-2017)
4 - Fangs for Everything (Jan-2019)

Disney's Spooky Zone

1 - Duck Scares (May-2021)
2 - Cooking Up Trouble (Nov-2021)

Good Sports League

1 - The Ultimate Goal (Apr-2023)
2 - The Perfect Pitch (Sep-2023)

Project Z

1 - A Zombie Ate My Homework (May-2019)
2 - Zombies Are People, Too (Sep-2019)
3 - The Zombie Zing (Jan-2020)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading

    Charlie Joe Jackson - 1

    My name is Charlie Joe Jackson. and I hate reading. And if you're reading this book. you hate reading. too. In fact. you do whatever you can to avoid reading. and the fact that you're holding a book in your hand right now is kind of shocking. C...

  • Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Extra Credit

    Charlie Joe Jackson - 2

    Charlie Joe Jackson, the most reluctant reader ever born, made it his mission in the first book to get through middle school without reading a single book from cover to cover. Now he's back, and trying desperately to get straight A's in order to avoi...

  • Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Summer Vacation

    Charlie Joe Jackson - 3

    It's finally summer vacation But instead of hanging out with his friends and playing with his dogs, Charlie Joe Jackson has to face his worst fear: academic summer camp. Camp Rituhbukkee is exactly how Charlie Joe pictured it: books and nerds as far ...

  • Jack Strong Takes a Stand

    Jack Strong just wants to be a kid. Jack's parents have overscheduled his week with every extracurricular activity under the sun: tennis, baseball, cello, karate, and Chinese language lessons -- all on top of regular homework. His parents want him...

  • Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Making Money

    Charlie Joe Jackson - 4

    Charlie Joe's weekly allowance just isn't cutting it and he desperately needs money to buy a Botman, the latest gadget to sweep his middle school. Only catch is, he wants to earn the money by doing the least amount of work possible. After several fai...

  • Katie Friedman Gives Up Texting! (and Lives to Tell about It)

    When a text goes wrong, Katie Friedman learns the hard way that sometimes you need to disconnect to connect. Here are a few things you need to know about Katie Friedman: 1. Katie is swearing off phones for life! (No, seriously. She just sent the ...

  • Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Planet Girl

    Charlie Joe Jackson - 5

    Everyone has a girlfriend except Charlie Joe! But he won't be left in the dust. Look out for make-ups, break-ups, and hilarious romance tips as Charlie Joe figures out this crazy little thing called love. There's a crisis at Eastport Middle Schoo...

  • My Dog Is Better Than Your Dog

    Crimebiters! - 1

    From the author of "Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading" comes a humorous and illustrated new series about a boy whose new dog may or may not be a crimefighting vampire. Jimmy Bishop loves doing 3 things: 1) Laughing at funny dog videos on...

  • Pete Milano's Guide to Being a Movie Star

    Pete Milano has always been the class clown and proud of it. What's the point of having friends if you can't make them laugh, right? Even if doing so has the unfortunate side effect of constantly getting him into trouble. But, for once, Pete's tricks...



  • Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Growing Up

    Charlie Joe Jackson - 6

    Yes! Graduation day is finally here! Charlie Joe has been waiting for this moment his entire middle school career. This might even be the best day of his life. No more teachers! No more books! Just make it through the ceremony and he's free. But ...

  • It's a Doggy Dog World

    Crimebiters! - 2

    Jimmy is sure that his dog Abby is special. After all, it was Abby who (with the help of Jimmy & friends) helped nab the criminal Barnaby Bratford and shut down Barnaby's babysitting service, a front for robbing the nice folks of Quietville. Jimmy's ...

  • The Real Us

    Laura Corbett and Damian White are loners, and not by choice. Kids make fun of smart, sarcastic Laura for her weight and artistic Damian for his tendency to sweat through his shirts. Calista Getz, however―well, everyone agrees that Calista is the p...

  • Dog Day Afterschool

    Crimebiters! - 3

    Just what every crimebiting gang needs ... a cat?!?! No one fights crime harder than the Crimebiters gang ... and of course my crime-fighting dog, Abby. Together, we’ve fought against corruption in the world of elementary school sports and even ...

  • Hooked

    A boy and his dad discover all they have in common on a fishing trip in Hooked, a sweet picture book about father-son bonding by Tommy Greenwald with illustrations by David McPhail. Joe loves fishing. He loves watching the water and looking at the...

  • Game Changer

    Thirteen-year-old Teddy Youngblood is in a coma fighting for his life after an unspecified football injury at training camp. His family and friends flock to his bedside to support his recovery -- and to discuss the events leading up to the tragic acc...

  • Fangs for Everything

    Crimebiters! - 4

    The CrimeBiters gang got its start with help from my crime-fighting vampire dog, Abby. But now, I'm starting to wonder if she's really a vampire at all... That's mystery I'm going to have to solve on my own. The rest of the Crime-biters are pretty...

  • A Zombie Ate My Homework

    Project Z - 1

    From the hilarious mind behind the Crimebiters series comes a new trilogy that fans of The Last Kids on Earth will love to pieces (literally). Arnold Z. Ombee has escaped a secret government lab that's developing zombies. Young, scared, and al...

  • Zombies Are People, Too

    Project Z - 2

    Arnold Z. Ombee is back in this wacky, page-turning sequel to A Zombie Ate My Homework!The zombie secret is out!Sort of... Scientists at the lab that Arnold escaped from claim they've changed their tune. Instead of creating super zombie soldiers, the...

  • The Zombie Zing

    Project Z - 3

    The thrilling conclusion to the Project Z trilogy!Life as an undead fifth grader is pretty good for Arnold. He finally feels like he can embrace both his zombie side (unlimited jellybeans!) and his regular kid side (kickbutt trampoline moves!).And no...



  • Rivals

    From the author of the award-winning Game Changer comes a gripping novel about two student-athletes searching for stardom, a young reporter searching for the truth, and a crosstown basketball rivalry that goes too far   The people of Walthorne l...

  • Duck Scares

    Disney's Spooky Zone - 1

    Introducing an all-new series of spooky middle-grade mysteries starring Disney’s world-famous troublemaking triplets Huey, Dewey, and Louie Huey, Dewey, and Louie—the world-famous nephews of Donald Duck—are off on a globetrotting adve...

  • Cooking Up Trouble

    Disney's Spooky Zone - 2

    The second book in Disney's Spooky Zone series, spooky middle-grade mysteries starring Disney’s world-famous troublemaking triplets, Huey, Dewey, and Louie After solving a soccer-related, curse-driven mystery in Germany, Huey, Dewey, and Lo...

  • Dinged

    In Tommy Greenwald’s Dinged, the companion novel to the acclaimed hit Game Changer, a star football player watches his father deteriorate from injuries he suffered playing the very same sport.   Caleb Springer is the up-and-coming star freshma...

  • The Ultimate Goal

    Good Sports League - 1

    From Tommy Greenwald, the acclaimed author of Game Changer, and artist Lesley Vamos, Ultimate Goal is the first title in the hilarious, heavily illustrated chapter book series the Good Sports League.   Ben Cutler loves everything about...

  • The Rescues Finding Home

    Two shelter dogs await adoption in this early reader story about friendship, family, and home.Moose and Bear are two scrappy shelter dogs patiently waiting for the right owner to adopt them. They meet, become friends, and one day a Cathy decides to t...

  • The Perfect Pitch

    Good Sports League - 2

    Put on your cleats, grab your jersey, and join the Good Sports League! This funny chapter book series about sports and sportsmanship is from acclaimed author Tommy Greenwald. Annabella Donatello likes to do everything. She likes to draw, fly kites, p...

  • The Right Call

    From award-winning author Tommy Greenwald comes a thrilling companion novel to Game Changer that explores the growing pressures in youth sports, and the lengths some parents will go to make sure their kid comes out on top Cal Klondike’s life re...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Tommy Greenwald has published 27 books.

The next book by Tommy Greenwald, The Right Call, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Tommy Greenwald, Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading, was published in July 2011.

Yes. Tommy Greenwald has 5 series.
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