Bea Garcia Books in Order

Bea Garcia is a young artist who sees almost everything through a pencil and a sketchbook. In My Life in Pictures, she is dealing with a real loss: her best friend Yvonne has moved to Australia, and Bea does not quite know what to do with that empty space. That feeling carries across the series, even when the books are very funny, because Bea is always trying to figure out how to stay herself when life changes around her.

Then Bert moves in next door.

Bert is loud, messy, and impossible for Bea to ignore, which makes him a great source of trouble from book to book. He follows Bea from the neighborhood into school, where their clashes keep turning ordinary kid problems into bigger adventures. Around them is a warm family-and-classroom world that includes Bea's little brother Pablo, her parents, her dog Sophie, teachers, classmates, and later the super-smart Judith Einstein. The books stay grounded in school projects, homework, pets, and friendship, so the stakes feel kid-sized but never small.

Her pencil is half the plot.

What really gives the series its personality is the way Bea draws her way through everything. The pages are filled with black-and-white doodles, notebook-style pictures, and little visual jokes, so the books feel like a cross between a chapter book and an illustrated journal. The art is not there just to decorate the story. It shows how Bea thinks, worries, jokes, and imagines, which makes her voice feel especially close to the reader.

Each book gives Bea a fresh problem that links back to the same larger concerns: friendship, belonging, and figuring out how to handle the people around her. In The Curse of Einstein's Pencil, Bea thinks a special pencil may explain Judith Einstein's school success, only to learn that friendship and effort are more complicated than that. In Tale of a Scaredy-Dog, a school assignment leads Bea into Bert's house, where a clash between pets sends Sophie missing. In The Tree and Me, Bea and her classmates have to rally around a beloved oak tree outside their classroom when adults decide it should come down.

The tone stays light, quick, and very readable, but there is real feeling underneath it. These are books about missing a friend, misjudging people, loving a pet like family, and finding your place at school. They are easy chapter books, especially good for readers who like doodles, humor, and characters who feel like actual kids. Start with My Life in Pictures and go in order, because Bea's relationships with Yvonne, Bert, Sophie, and Judith grow naturally from one book to the next.