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Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary was an American children's author, born on April 12, 1916, and she passed away on March 25, 2021. She is known for the Henry Huggins and Ramona Quimby series. Cleary grew up on a farm in Yamhill, Oregon, a town without a library. Despite this, she had a passion for reading, and her mother arranged for the Oregon State Library to send books to Yamhill. Eventually, her family moved to Portland, where she attended school. Beverly's first full-time job was as a librarian in Yakima, Washington, where she noticed children searching for the same types of books she had sought at their age—stories about children like themselves. This inspired her to write books for children, providing them with relatable characters and experiences.

Beverly Cleary became a published novelist in 1950 with the novel Henry Huggins. Below is a list of Beverly Cleary's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Henry Huggins Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Henry Huggins (1950) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Henry and Beezus (1952) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Henry and Ribsy (1953) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Henry and the Paper Route (1957) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Henry and the Clubhouse (1962) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ribsy (1964) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Ellen & Otis Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Ellen Tebbits (1951) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Otis Spofford (1953) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Ramona Quimby Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Beezus and Ramona (1955) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ramona the Pest (1968) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ramona the Brave (1975) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ramona and Her Father (1977) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ramona and Her Mother (1979) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (1981) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ramona Forever (1984) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ramona's World (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Ramona Quimby Non-Fiction Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Beezus and Ramona Diary (1986) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Just for Me (2013) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of First Love Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Fifteen (1956) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Luckiest Girl (1958) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Jean and Johnny (1959) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Sister of the Bride (1963) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Ralph S. Mouse Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Mouse and the Motorcycle (1965) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Runaway Ralph (1970) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ralph S. Mouse (1982) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Leigh Botts Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Dear Mr. Henshaw (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Strider (1991) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Beaver and Wally (1961) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Emily's Runaway Imagination (1961) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Here's Beaver! (1961) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ribsy and the P.T.A. (1963) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mitch and Amy (1967) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Socks (1973) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Leave It to Beaver (1978) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Young Love (1982) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lucky Chuck (1984) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Here Come The Twins (1989) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Twins Again (1989) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mouse House Trio (1989) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Muggie Maggie (1990) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Two Times the Fun (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Picture Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Hullabaloo ABC (1960) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Real Hole (1960) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Two Dog Biscuits (1986) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Janet's Thingamajigs (1987) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Growing-Up Feet (1987) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Petey's Bedtime Story (1993) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
A Girl from Yamhill (1988) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
My Own Two Feet (1995) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Avon Camelot Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Lottie & Lisa (By: Erich Kastner) (1952) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Summerdog Comes Home (By: George Albert Zabriskie) (1980) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher (By: Mike Thaler) (1981) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Baseball Fever (By: Ray Cruz,Johanna Hurwitz) (1981) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Trouble with Tuck (By: Theodore Taylor) (1981) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Irma and Jerry (By: George Selden) (1982) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Basic Fun (By: Susan Drake Lipscomb,Margaret Ann Zusnich) (1982) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Esp McGee (By: Edward Packard) (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tunnel to Yesterday (By: Jerome Beatty Jr.) (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You (By: Vicki Cobb) (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Rich Mitch (By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat) (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Summerdog (By: Thom Roberts) (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Bet You Can't! (By: Kathy Darling,Vicki Cobb) (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Earth is Flat--And Other Great Mistakes (By: Laurence Pringle) (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Behind the Attic Wall (By: Sylvia Cassedy) (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater (By: Bruce Curtis,Stephanie Young) (1984) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Gremlins (By: George Gipe) (1984) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Maura's Angel (By: Lynne Reid Banks) (1984) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Jellyfish Season (By: Mary Downing Hahn) (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1 (By: Andrew Glass,Catherine Edwards Sadler) (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Get Rich Mitch! (By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat) (1985) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mystery of the Melted Diamonds (By: Carol Farley) (1986) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ukrainian Egg Mystery (By: George E. Stanley) (1986) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Moroccan Mystery (By: Thomas McKean) (1986) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol (By: Steve Senn) (1986) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Flash Fry, Private Eye (By: Tim Schoch) (1986) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Anti-Peggy Plot (By: Thomas McKean) (1986) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Best Joke Book for Kids 2 (By: Joan Eckstein) (1987) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Codebreaker Kids (By: George E. Stanley) (1987) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Summer Camp Creeps (By: Tim Schoch) (1987) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Case of the Lost Look-Alike (By: Carol Farley) (1988) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Breezy (By: Leda Blumberg) (1988) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Racing the Sun (By: Paul Pitts) (1988) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Anne Frank (By: Johanna Hurwitz) (1989) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Case of the Vanishing Villain (By: Carol Farley) (1990) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Something Upstairs (By: C.S. Adler) (1990) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ghost Brother (By: C.S. Adler) (1990) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Haunting in Williamsburg (By: Lou Kassem) (1990) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists (By: Eugenie Allen) (1991) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ask Me Anything About the Presidents (By: Louis Phillips) (1992) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Adventures of King Midas (By: Lynne Reid Banks) (1992) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tons of Trash (By: Joan Rattner Heilman) (1992) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Maria, a Christmas Story (By: Theodore Taylor) (1992) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
How to Travel Through Time (By: James M. Deem) (1993) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lucie Babbidge's House (By: Sylvia Cassedy) (1993) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Beardance (By: Will Hobbs) (1993) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Christmas Countdown (By: Steve Englehart) (1993) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers (By: Mike Thaler) (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Mummy's Curse (By: Daniel Cohen) (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble (By: Anne C. Lemieux) (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Main Street (By: Susan Kirby) (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Comet Luck (By: Madge Harrah) (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ali Baba Bernstein, Lost and Found (By: Johanna Hurwitz) (1995) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Kwanzaa (By: Mildred Pitts Walter) (1995) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Vampire Mom (By: Don Whittington) (1995) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
My Own Two Feet (1995) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Spookhouse (By: Don Whittington) (1995) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Harry the Poisonous Centipede (By: Lynne Reid Banks) (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller (By: Septima Green) (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Four Perfect Pebbles (By: Lila Perl,Marion Blumenthal Lazan) (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Zombie Queen (By: Don Whittington) (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Freak Show (By: Don Whittington) (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Going to Net (By: Various) (1996) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Tracks in the Snow (By: Lucy Jane Bledsoe) (1997) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Danger Along the Ohio (By: Patricia Willis) (1997) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Lasting Echoes (By: Joseph Bruchac) (1997) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Night of the Chupacabras (By: Marie G. Lee) (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
As Ever, Gordy (By: Mary Downing Hahn) (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (By: Anita Lobel) (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Becoming Felix (By: Nancy Hope Wilson) (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Breakaway (By: Kimberley Griffiths Little) (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me (By: Dawn Knight) (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz (By: Jacqueline Shannon) (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Leaving Summer (By: Donal Harding) (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Flea Circus Summer (By: Cheryl Ware) (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Calling Me Home (By: Patricia Hermes) (1998) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Pizza That Time Forgot (By: William DeAndrea,Matthew Deandrea) (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Love Me, Love My Broccoli (By: Julie Anne Peters) (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Get on the Net (By: Robert Pondiscio) (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Don't Try This at Home! (By: Vicki Cobb) (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters (By: Bruce Coville) (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights (By: Kathleen Krull) (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors (By: Bruce Coville) (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Green Mango Magic (By: Sylvie Hossack) (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
All the Answers (By: Anne C. Lemieux) (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Can of Worms (By: Kathy MacKel) (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Orphan Journey Home (By: Liza Ketchum) (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Bearstone (By: Will Hobbs) (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Alice-by-Accident (By: Lynne Reid Banks) (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Death at Devil's Bridge (By: Cynthia C. DeFelice) (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Alice By Accident (By: Lynne Reid Banks) (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
It's Fine to Be Nine (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
It's Heaven to Be Seven (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
It's Great to Be Eight (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

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