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Updated 2026-07-11 / 130 books / 6 series
Mary Downing Hahn is an acclaimed American author best known for her chilling ghost stories and historical fiction for young readers, including *Wait Till Helen Comes* and *Told After Supper*. Her books have won over fifty state children’s choice awards and are celebrated for their atmospheric suspense. This page lists Mary Downing Hahn’s books in order, covering both publication chronology and series reading order.
Books by Mary Downing Hahn in Publication Order
1952
Lottie & Lisa(By: Erich Kastner)
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1979
The Sara Summer
POoSN / 1
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1980
Summerdog Comes Home(By: George Albert Zabriskie)
POoACB / 2
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1981
A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher(By: Mike Thaler)
POoACB / 3
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1981
Baseball Fever(By: Ray Cruz,Johanna Hurwitz)
POoACB / 4
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1981
The Trouble with Tuck(By: Theodore Taylor)
POoACB / 5
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1982
The Time of the Witch
POoSN / 2
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1982
Basic Fun(By: Susan Drake Lipscomb,Margaret Ann Zusnich)
POoACB / 6
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1982
Irma and Jerry(By: George Selden)
POoACB / 7
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1983
Daphne's Book
POoSN / 3
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1983
Esp McGee(By: Edward Packard)
POoACB / 8
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1983
Tunnel to Yesterday(By: Jerome Beatty Jr.)
POoACB / 9
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1983
Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You(By: Vicki Cobb)
POoACB / 10
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1983
Rich Mitch(By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)
POoACB / 11
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1983
Summerdog(By: Thom Roberts)
POoACB / 12
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1983
Bet You Can't!(By: Kathy Darling,Vicki Cobb)
POoACB / 13
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1983
The Earth is Flat--And Other Great Mistakes(By: Laurence Pringle)
POoACB / 14
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1983
Behind the Attic Wall(By: Sylvia Cassedy)
POoACB / 15
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1984
Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater(By: Bruce Curtis,Stephanie Young)
POoACB / 16
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1984
Gremlins(By: George Gipe)
POoACB / 17
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1984
Maura's Angel(By: Lynne Reid Banks)
POoACB / 18
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1985
The Jellyfish Season
POoSN / 4
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1985
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1(By: Andrew Glass,Catherine Edwards Sadler)
POoACB / 20
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1985
Get Rich Mitch!(By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)
POoACB / 21
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1986
Wait Till Helen Comes
POoSN / 5
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1986
Mystery of the Melted Diamonds(By: Carol Farley)
POoACB / 22
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1986
Ukrainian Egg Mystery(By: George E. Stanley)
POoACB / 23
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1986
Moroccan Mystery(By: Thomas McKean)
POoACB / 24
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1986
Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol(By: Steve Senn)
POoACB / 25
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1986
Flash Fry, Private Eye(By: Tim Schoch)
POoACB / 26
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1986
The Anti-Peggy Plot(By: Thomas McKean)
POoACB / 27
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1987
Tallahassee Higgins
POoSN / 6
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1987
Best Joke Book for Kids 2(By: Joan Eckstein)
POoACB / 28
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1987
The Codebreaker Kids(By: George E. Stanley)
POoACB / 29
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1987
Summer Camp Creeps(By: Tim Schoch)
POoACB / 30
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1988
Following the Mystery Man
POoSN / 7
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1988
December Stillness
POoSN / 8
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1988
The Case of the Lost Look-Alike(By: Carol Farley)
POoACB / 31
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1988
Breezy(By: Leda Blumberg)
POoACB / 32
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1988
Racing the Sun(By: Paul Pitts)
POoACB / 33
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1989
The Doll in the Garden
POoSN / 9
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1989
Anne Frank(By: Johanna Hurwitz)
POoACB / 34
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1990
The Dead Man in Indian Creek
POoSN / 10
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1990
The Case of the Vanishing Villain(By: Carol Farley)
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1990
Something Upstairs(By: C.S. Adler)
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1990
Ghost Brother(By: C.S. Adler)
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1990
A Haunting in Williamsburg(By: Lou Kassem)
POoACB / 38
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1991
Stepping on the Cracks
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1991
The Spanish Kidnapping Disaster
POoSN / 11
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1991
The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists(By: Eugenie Allen)
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1992
Ask Me Anything About the Presidents(By: Louis Phillips)
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1992
The Adventures of King Midas(By: Lynne Reid Banks)
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1992
Tons of Trash(By: Joan Rattner Heilman)
POoACB / 42
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1992
Maria, a Christmas Story(By: Theodore Taylor)
POoACB / 43
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1993
The Wind Blows Backward
POoSN / 12
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1993
Lucie Babbidge's House(By: Sylvia Cassedy)
POoACB / 44
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1993
How to Travel Through Time(By: James M. Deem)
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1993
Beardance(By: Will Hobbs)
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1993
Christmas Countdown(By: Steve Englehart)
POoACB / 47
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1994
Time for Andrew
POoSN / 13
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1994
Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers(By: Mike Thaler)
POoACB / 48
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1994
Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble(By: Anne C. Lemieux)
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1994
The Mummy's Curse(By: Daniel Cohen)
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1994
Lemonade Days(By: Susan Kirby)
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1994
Main Street(By: Susan Kirby)
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1994
Comet Luck(By: Madge Harrah)
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1994
Home Front Hero(By: Susan Kirby)
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1995
Look for Me by Moonlight
POoSN / 14
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1995
Ali Baba Bernstein, Lost and Found(By: Johanna Hurwitz)
POoACB / 55
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1995
Kwanzaa(By: Mildred Pitts Walter)
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1995
Goodbye, Desert Rose(By: Susan Kirby)
POoACB / 57
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1995
Vampire Mom(By: Don Whittington)
POoACB / 58
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1995
My Own Two Feet(By: Beverly Cleary)
POoACB / 59
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1995
Spookhouse(By: Don Whittington)
POoACB / 60
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1996
Following My Own Footsteps
POoGSB / 2
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1996
The Gentleman Outlaw and Me
POoSN / 15
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1996
Harry the Poisonous Centipede(By: Lynne Reid Banks)
POoACB / 61
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1996
Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller(By: Septima Green)
POoACB / 62
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1996
Four Perfect Pebbles(By: Lila Perl,Marion Blumenthal Lazan)
POoACB / 63
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1996
Zombie Queen(By: Don Whittington)
POoACB / 64
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1996
Freak Show(By: Don Whittington)
POoACB / 65
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1996
Going to Net(By: Various)
POoACB / 66
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1997
Tracks in the Snow(By: Lucy Jane Bledsoe)
POoACB / 67
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1997
Danger Along the Ohio(By: Patricia Willis)
POoACB / 68
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1997
Lasting Echoes(By: Joseph Bruchac)
POoACB / 69
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1998
As Ever, Gordy
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1998
Night of the Chupacabras(By: Marie G. Lee)
POoACB / 70
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1998
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War(By: Anita Lobel)
POoACB / 72
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1998
Becoming Felix(By: Nancy Hope Wilson)
POoACB / 73
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1998
Breakaway(By: Kimberley Griffiths Little)
POoACB / 74
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1998
Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me(By: Dawn Knight)
POoACB / 75
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1998
It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz(By: Jacqueline Shannon)
POoACB / 76
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1998
Leaving Summer(By: Donal Harding)
POoACB / 77
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1998
Flea Circus Summer(By: Cheryl Ware)
POoACB / 78
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1998
Calling Me Home(By: Patricia Hermes)
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1999
Anna All Year Round
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1999
The Pizza That Time Forgot(By: William DeAndrea,Matthew Deandrea)
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1999
Love Me, Love My Broccoli(By: Julie Anne Peters)
POoACB / 81
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1999
Get on the Net(By: Robert Pondiscio)
POoACB / 82
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1999
Don't Try This at Home!(By: Vicki Cobb)
POoACB / 83
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1999
Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters(By: Bruce Coville)
POoACB / 84
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1999
A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights(By: Kathleen Krull)
POoACB / 85
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1999
Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors(By: Bruce Coville)
POoACB / 86
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1999
Green Mango Magic(By: Sylvie Hossack)
POoACB / 87
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2000
Promises to the Dead
POoSN / 16
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2000
All the Answers(By: Anne C. Lemieux)
POoACB / 88
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2000
Can of Worms(By: Kathy MacKel)
POoACB / 89
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2000
Orphan Journey Home(By: Liza Ketchum)
POoACB / 90
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2000
Bearstone(By: Will Hobbs)
POoACB / 91
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2000
Alice-by-Accident(By: Lynne Reid Banks)
POoACB / 92
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2000
Death at Devil's Bridge(By: Cynthia C. DeFelice)
POoACB / 93
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2001
Anna on the Farm
POoAB / 2
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2003
Hear the Wind Blow
POoSN / 17
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2003
Alice By Accident(By: Lynne Reid Banks)
POoACB / 94
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2005
Janey and the Famous Author
POoSN / 19
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2006
Witch Catcher
POoSN / 20
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2007
Deep and Dark and Dangerous
POoSN / 21
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2008
All the Lovely Bad Ones
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2009
Closed for the Season
POoSN / 23
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2010
The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall
POoSN / 24
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2012
Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls
POoSN / 25
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2014
Where I Belong
POoSN / 26
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2017
One for Sorrow
POoSN / 28
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2018
The Girl in the Locked Room
POoSN / 29
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2019
Guest
POoSN / 30
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2020
The Puppet's Payback and Other Chilling Tales
POoSSC / 1
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2021
The Thirteenth Cat
POoSN / 31
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2022
What We Saw
POoSN / 32
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2024
The Old Willis Place
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Complete Mary Downing Hahn Series Reading Order /
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01
Stepping on the Cracks
1991
Buy
02
Following My Own Footsteps
1996
Buy
03
As Ever, Gordy
1998
Buy
01
The Sara Summer
1979
Buy
02
The Time of the Witch
1982
Buy
03
Daphne's Book
1983
Buy
04
The Jellyfish Season
1985
Buy
05
Wait Till Helen Comes
1986
Buy
06
Tallahassee Higgins
1987
Buy
07
Following the Mystery Man
1988
Buy
08
December Stillness
1988
Buy
09
The Doll in the Garden
1989
Buy
10
The Dead Man in Indian Creek
1990
Buy
11
The Spanish Kidnapping Disaster
1991
Buy
12
The Wind Blows Backward
1993
Buy
13
Time for Andrew
1994
Buy
14
Look for Me by Moonlight
1995
Buy
15
The Gentleman Outlaw and Me
1996
Buy
16
Promises to the Dead
2000
Buy
17
Hear the Wind Blow
2003
Buy
19
Janey and the Famous Author
2005
Buy
20
Witch Catcher
2006
Buy
21
Deep and Dark and Dangerous
2007
Buy
22
All the Lovely Bad Ones
2008
Buy
23
Closed for the Season
2009
Buy
24
The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall
2010
Buy
25
Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls
2012
Buy
26
Where I Belong
2014
Buy
28
One for Sorrow
2017
Buy
29
The Girl in the Locked Room
2018
Buy
31
The Thirteenth Cat
2021
Buy
01
Anna All Year Round
1999
Buy
02
Anna on the Farm
2001
Buy
01
Lottie & Lisa(By: Erich Kastner)
1952
Buy
02
Summerdog Comes Home(By: George Albert Zabriskie)
1980
Buy
03
A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher(By: Mike Thaler)
1981
Buy
04
Baseball Fever(By: Ray Cruz,Johanna Hurwitz)
1981
Buy
05
The Trouble with Tuck(By: Theodore Taylor)
1981
Buy
06
Basic Fun(By: Susan Drake Lipscomb,Margaret Ann Zusnich)
1982
Buy
07
Irma and Jerry(By: George Selden)
1982
Buy
08
Esp McGee(By: Edward Packard)
1983
Buy
09
Tunnel to Yesterday(By: Jerome Beatty Jr.)
1983
Buy
10
Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You(By: Vicki Cobb)
1983
Buy
11
Rich Mitch(By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)
1983
Buy
12
Summerdog(By: Thom Roberts)
1983
Buy
13
Bet You Can't!(By: Kathy Darling,Vicki Cobb)
1983
Buy
14
The Earth is Flat--And Other Great Mistakes(By: Laurence Pringle)
1983
Buy
15
Behind the Attic Wall(By: Sylvia Cassedy)
1983
Buy
16
Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater(By: Bruce Curtis,Stephanie Young)
1984
Buy
17
Gremlins(By: George Gipe)
1984
Buy
18
Maura's Angel(By: Lynne Reid Banks)
1984
Buy
20
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1(By: Andrew Glass,Catherine Edwards Sadler)
1985
Buy
21
Get Rich Mitch!(By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)
1985
Buy
22
Mystery of the Melted Diamonds(By: Carol Farley)
1986
Buy
23
Ukrainian Egg Mystery(By: George E. Stanley)
1986
Buy
24
Moroccan Mystery(By: Thomas McKean)
1986
Buy
25
Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol(By: Steve Senn)
1986
Buy
26
Flash Fry, Private Eye(By: Tim Schoch)
1986
Buy
27
The Anti-Peggy Plot(By: Thomas McKean)
1986
Buy
28
Best Joke Book for Kids 2(By: Joan Eckstein)
1987
Buy
29
The Codebreaker Kids(By: George E. Stanley)
1987
Buy
30
Summer Camp Creeps(By: Tim Schoch)
1987
Buy
31
The Case of the Lost Look-Alike(By: Carol Farley)
1988
Buy
32
Breezy(By: Leda Blumberg)
1988
Buy
33
Racing the Sun(By: Paul Pitts)
1988
Buy
34
Anne Frank(By: Johanna Hurwitz)
1989
Buy
35
The Case of the Vanishing Villain(By: Carol Farley)
1990
Buy
36
Something Upstairs(By: C.S. Adler)
1990
Buy
37
Ghost Brother(By: C.S. Adler)
1990
Buy
38
A Haunting in Williamsburg(By: Lou Kassem)
1990
Buy
39
The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists(By: Eugenie Allen)
1991
Buy
40
Ask Me Anything About the Presidents(By: Louis Phillips)
1992
Buy
41
The Adventures of King Midas(By: Lynne Reid Banks)
1992
Buy
42
Tons of Trash(By: Joan Rattner Heilman)
1992
Buy
43
Maria, a Christmas Story(By: Theodore Taylor)
1992
Buy
44
Lucie Babbidge's House(By: Sylvia Cassedy)
1993
Buy
45
How to Travel Through Time(By: James M. Deem)
1993
Buy
46
Beardance(By: Will Hobbs)
1993
Buy
47
Christmas Countdown(By: Steve Englehart)
1993
Buy
48
Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers(By: Mike Thaler)
1994
Buy
49
Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble(By: Anne C. Lemieux)
1994
Buy
50
The Mummy's Curse(By: Daniel Cohen)
1994
Buy
51
Lemonade Days(By: Susan Kirby)
1994
Buy
52
Main Street(By: Susan Kirby)
1994
Buy
53
Comet Luck(By: Madge Harrah)
1994
Buy
54
Home Front Hero(By: Susan Kirby)
1994
Buy
55
Ali Baba Bernstein, Lost and Found(By: Johanna Hurwitz)
1995
Buy
56
Kwanzaa(By: Mildred Pitts Walter)
1995
Buy
57
Goodbye, Desert Rose(By: Susan Kirby)
1995
Buy
58
Vampire Mom(By: Don Whittington)
1995
Buy
59
My Own Two Feet(By: Beverly Cleary)
1995
Buy
60
Spookhouse(By: Don Whittington)
1995
Buy
61
Harry the Poisonous Centipede(By: Lynne Reid Banks)
1996
Buy
62
Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller(By: Septima Green)
1996
Buy
63
Four Perfect Pebbles(By: Lila Perl,Marion Blumenthal Lazan)
1996
Buy
64
Zombie Queen(By: Don Whittington)
1996
Buy
65
Freak Show(By: Don Whittington)
1996
Buy
66
Going to Net(By: Various)
1996
Buy
67
Tracks in the Snow(By: Lucy Jane Bledsoe)
1997
Buy
68
Danger Along the Ohio(By: Patricia Willis)
1997
Buy
69
Lasting Echoes(By: Joseph Bruchac)
1997
Buy
70
Night of the Chupacabras(By: Marie G. Lee)
1998
Buy
72
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War(By: Anita Lobel)
1998
Buy
73
Becoming Felix(By: Nancy Hope Wilson)
1998
Buy
74
Breakaway(By: Kimberley Griffiths Little)
1998
Buy
75
Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me(By: Dawn Knight)
1998
Buy
76
It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz(By: Jacqueline Shannon)
1998
Buy
77
Leaving Summer(By: Donal Harding)
1998
Buy
78
Flea Circus Summer(By: Cheryl Ware)
1998
Buy
79
Calling Me Home(By: Patricia Hermes)
1998
Buy
80
The Pizza That Time Forgot(By: William DeAndrea,Matthew Deandrea)
1999
Buy
81
Love Me, Love My Broccoli(By: Julie Anne Peters)
1999
Buy
82
Get on the Net(By: Robert Pondiscio)
1999
Buy
83
Don't Try This at Home!(By: Vicki Cobb)
1999
Buy
84
Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters(By: Bruce Coville)
1999
Buy
85
A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights(By: Kathleen Krull)
1999
Buy
86
Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors(By: Bruce Coville)
1999
Buy
87
Green Mango Magic(By: Sylvie Hossack)
1999
Buy
88
All the Answers(By: Anne C. Lemieux)
2000
Buy
89
Can of Worms(By: Kathy MacKel)
2000
Buy
90
Orphan Journey Home(By: Liza Ketchum)
2000
Buy
91
Bearstone(By: Will Hobbs)
2000
Buy
92
Alice-by-Accident(By: Lynne Reid Banks)
2000
Buy
93
Death at Devil's Bridge(By: Cynthia C. DeFelice)
2000
Buy
94
Alice By Accident(By: Lynne Reid Banks)
2003
Buy
03
The Old Willis Place
2024
Buy
01
The Puppet's Payback and Other Chilling Tales
2020
Buy
Where to start with Mary Downing Hahn
What is the best order to read Mary Downing Hahn books?
Publication order is usually the safest place to start. If a book belongs to a series,
follow the numbered series reading order shown on this page.
Are standalone books and series both included?
Yes. Standalone titles appear in the full chronological bibliography, and series are
broken out separately with reading-order links when catalog data is available.
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