Caroline B Cooney Books in Order

An eleven-year-old girl notices an unexplained grave in her family's burial plot bearing only the name Cornelia. Its date, just before a Union raid, leads her to investigate a secret preserved from the Civil War.

Susan Seton takes a countryside drive on her unexpected day off and sees two men forcing a struggling child into a garbage bag. The disturbing discovery turns an ordinary outing into a life-threatening test of her response.

Marnie MacDonald's happy high school life ends when her parents move the family to a North Carolina farm. Losing friends and her boyfriend seems unbearable until a familiar boy she dislikes begins to look different.

Mischievous Lynn and her twin Victoria visit their aunt and uncle and become involved in investigating a stolen computer program. Their family visit turns into a mystery as the sisters try to discover who took it.

Aspiring musician Alison Holland devotes herself to professional ambitions while longing for the social life she sacrifices. Meeting photographer Ted Mollison offers hope of romance, but she wonders whether his own passion leaves room for her.

Sunny Compton dreads the seasonal return of Tim Lansberry, the boy who has always irritated her. Discovering that he has grown into someone handsome and considerate turns a familiar summer nuisance into an unexpected romantic possibility.

The reader takes the role of a maid of honor at her sister's wedding and chooses how the story unfolds. Different decisions shape romantic encounters and experiences, creating alternative routes through a story of young love.

Seventeen-year-old Holly Carroll falls for Jamie Winter, a boy a year younger than she is. Her friends' disapproval and attempts to find supposedly better matches force her to decide whether their opinions matter more than her feelings.

A century-old cookbook leads Nancy Nearing to explore family history in a North Carolina town. Handsome guide Nick shares her interest, bringing relatives and unexpected romance into the life of a girl longing for connection.

Widowed Janney Fraser is driving home while considering a fresh start for herself and her stepson. A murderer believes she witnessed his crime, turning her quiet journey into a desperate attempt to escape his pursuit.

Basketball player Tory Travis grows frustrated by the unequal treatment of her school's girls' and boys' teams. Challenging the school board could change things, but it also risks the support of people closest to her.

This interactive romance lets readers choose between a wilderness camp and summer in New York City. Each decision directs new adventures and encounters with possible boyfriends, allowing the story to be restarted along a different romantic path.

Fraser believes Michael is the perfect boyfriend until their relationship consumes the time she once gave friends and music. As her best friend faces similar pressures, both girls must reconsider the compromises they make for love.

Rumors spread about two experienced members of Tarenton High's cheerleading squad. Questions about Mary Ellen's expensive clothes and Angie's high grades create suspicion, testing whether the team can hold together amid accusations and damaged trust.

Readers choose a summer job at either an Old West amusement park or a computer camp. Further decisions determine which boys they meet and pursue, making this interactive romance a story shaped by each reader's preferences.

Lonely high school student Althea discovers a vampire in her home's tower who offers popularity, cheerleading success, and romance. Accepting his bargain draws her into demands that make her longed-for new life increasingly frightening and difficult to escape.

Thirty-two girls compete for four places on Tarenton High's cheerleading squad. Mary Ellen's ambitions collide with rival Vanessa's hostility and a choice between wealthy Pres and handsome Patrick, whose family background challenges her expectations about romance.

Tarenton cheerleader Nancy falls for Ben, a basketball star at rival Garrison High. As competition between the schools erupts into violence, their attraction places her at the center of a conflict that makes dating him dangerous.

Susan expects an exciting senior year until her older sister Ashley returns home after failing to become a rock singer. Ashley's bitterness toward the family disrupts Susan's confidence in the people and future she thought she understood.

Five high school girls approach a long-awaited dance with different hopes and romantic worries. Anne hides a secret, Kip needs a date, and Molly, Emily, and Beth Rose each face a night that could change their expectations.

An English assignment asks six classmates to keep diaries, exposing jealousy, ambition, and resentment within their friendships. For Jenny, Emily, and Hillary, once an inseparable trio, those private admissions threaten the bond they assumed would last.

Five girls reach the final dance of their junior year carrying romantic disappointments and difficult family problems. An evening intended as a celebration brings those tensions together while a fire introduces a new threat to their plans.

Former head cheerleader Mary Ellen Kirkwood returns home and receives a marriage proposal from longtime friend Pres Tilford. The prospect of a wedding brings a new decision about love and commitment into her life after cheerleading.

Marcie announces that she wants to become a cheerleader, only to encounter her family's disapproval. Pursuing that ambition makes her confront the expectations surrounding her and consider how she fits into a household of high achievers.

Marissa loves being a summer camp counselor, while Violet mainly hopes to meet boys. Their season brings unexpected romantic possibilities, demanding campers, and a disruptive new arrival who tests the friendships forming between the counselors.

Five girls approach their high school's New Year's Eve dance hoping for romance and fresh beginnings. Changing relationships leave Kip lonely and Beth Rose uncertain, making the last night of the year a test of their expectations.

With high school behind them, Kip, Anne, Beth Rose, Emily, and Molly gather for one last party. Jobs, college, and uncertain relationships pull them in different directions, turning their celebration into a night of difficult goodbyes.

Sixteen-year-old Kelly waits for her first major romance while watching the uneven relationships of her parents and brother. Creating a board game called Romance gives her a way to explore the unpredictable rules of love.

Shelley Wollcott dreads attending a reunion with relatives whose apparently perfect lives highlight her family's troubles. Accompanied by her younger brother and new stepmother, she discovers secrets that challenge her assumptions about belonging and respectability.

Christina leaves her Maine island to attend school on the mainland and boards with its principal and his wife. Disturbing changes in another girl make her suspect her hosts, even while everyone else dismisses her fears.

During a snowstorm, Dolly is believed to be missing outdoors, but Christina suspects she is trapped inside the Shevvingtons' house. Protecting her friend means confronting the couple Christina knows are far more dangerous than they appear.

Sixteen-year-old Marissa begins a summer at Camp Menunkchogue anticipating swimming, sailing, dancing, and romance. The camp setting brings friendships and romantic possibilities into a holiday she hopes will become something more than an ordinary break.

Janie Johnson recognizes herself in a missing child's photograph printed on a milk carton. Investigating how it could be true forces her to question her loving parents, her identity, and everything she believes about her childhood.

Christina discovers evidence that the Shevvingtons have destroyed other girls' lives, but they plan to discredit her as dangerously obsessed with fire. With escape nearly within reach, she must protect both the proof and her sanity.

Campers and staff from Camp Menunkechogue gather for their annual November reunion. Awkward greetings give way to memories and revelations, exposing differences between the roles they played during summer and the people they have become since.

Popular graduate Hallie skips college while her friends and boyfriend leave town to continue their education. Facing loneliness, family chaos, and limited job prospects, she must rethink the future she assumed would follow her high school success.

Devnee is tired of being ordinary and unnoticed when a vampire offers her the beauty she craves. Agreeing to give him whatever he wants creates a bargain whose demands turn her wish for transformation into danger.

Scottie-Anne resents the demands of her older sister's beauty-pageant career and assumes school offers an escape. When her own school organizes a competition, entering to support a friend challenges her ideas about beauty contests, attention, and her sister's life.

A passenger jet crashes on Heidi's family's estate while her parents are away, forcing the uncertain teenager into an enormous rescue effort. Survivors, volunteers, and emergency workers struggle through the night as every decision may affect someone's chance of living.

Meghan and West remember childhood games in which Lannie could freeze people with a touch. Now the couple are in high school, and Lannie's determination to claim West turns her strange power into a deadly threat to their relationship.

Lonely Althea longs for the popularity and excitement of becoming a cheerleader. A vampire offers to grant her wish through a bargain, but the chance to belong brings demands that make her dream far more dangerous than she imagined.

Dove Daniel feels inexplicably afraid of Venom, the fashionable new perfume her friends adore. When she inhales its scent, something dark awakens inside her, leaving the teenager struggling to understand the terrifying change and what it wants from her.

Annabel, a billionaire's daughter, falls for Daniel, whose senator father was murdered. Their romance becomes entangled with buried family history and another young woman's desire for revenge, while Daniel's search for answers draws a killer back into their lives.

In these three vampire novels, Althea, Devnee, and Lacey receive offers promising popularity, beauty, and freedom. Each must confront the price of getting what she wants as a vampire's bargains place other lives and her own future at risk.

After learning she was kidnapped as a child, Janie must reconnect with the biological family that lost her. Love for the parents who raised her complicates the reunion, leaving her caught between two homes and conflicting expectations about her identity.

Remy and Morgan eagerly anticipate learning to drive, distracted by romance and the freedom a license promises. An accident changes the stakes, forcing them to confront responsibility and the lasting consequences that can follow a moment's poor judgment.

College freshmen Seth and Diana volunteer in a hospital emergency room for very different reasons. Over one demanding night, gunshot victims, accidents, and urgent decisions expose them to the pressures of medicine and challenge their expectations about helping people.

After a street crime leaves a teenager without her memory, a stranger claims to be her father and supplies a wealthy new identity. A skeptical college student and another girl's abduction suggest that her apparent rescue conceals a dangerous conspiracy.

Fifteen-year-old Annie Lockwood unexpectedly travels to 1895, where elegant society and a handsome young man offer the romance she craves. Becoming involved in lives across two centuries forces her to consider whom she would abandon by choosing either world.

Danna wishes for excitement during a dull summer in her wealthy California neighborhood. When nearby wildfires suddenly threaten Pinch Canyon, she and other residents face urgent choices about evacuation, vulnerable neighbors, and the people and animals they hope to save.

Four students sign up for a mysterious night class, each hoping it will satisfy a private longing for fame, romance, independence, or popularity. The unexplained course offers something far more dangerous than the fulfillment of their dreams.

When Laura Herrick's mother is deployed to Saudi Arabia with the National Guard, the family's everyday routines unravel. Laura, her father, and her brothers must manage life at home while fear and constant war coverage make ordinary tasks difficult.

Annie returns to the 1890s after learning that Strat, the boy she loves, has been declared insane and confined to an asylum. Working with his sister Devonny, she must navigate restrictive social expectations and find a way to rescue him.

Janie is still struggling with the aftermath of her kidnapping when boyfriend Reeve leaves for college. His new radio program gains listeners through her private story, creating a betrayal that threatens the relationship she has relied on for support.

American teenager Laura Williams loses her brother when a bomb explodes in London's Underground. Grief becomes an obsessive search for the person responsible, drawing her into danger and forcing her to question the people around her and her own assumptions.

Alice Robbie receives an urgent call from her father, then learns he has been murdered. Someone has also framed her for the crime, leaving her on the run as she searches for the killer and a way to clear her name.

Eight-year-old foster child Katie wants a family for Christmas, while older teenagers face their own questions about belonging and happiness. An attempt to help her brings their lives together and tests whether generosity can change what seems impossible.

Kit's former stepmother leaves her with a baby boy and little explanation, then a frightening man arrives looking for him. Determined to protect the child, Kit and her friends investigate his origins and uncover a situation that threatens them all.

Sixteen-year-old Devonny longs to escape the restrictions placed on women in nineteenth-century society. Stepping through time brings her into a different world, where the independence she encounters challenges her assumptions and offers the possibility of changing her own future.

Macey researches a burned-out barn in the Connecticut town she loves, only to encounter silence from people who know its history. When violence touches a friend, her investigation forces her to confront uncomfortable truths about the community and herself.

Model student Emlyn secretly dreams up elaborate schemes, then classmates recruit her to steal a museum's Egyptian mummy as a senior prank. Turning imagination into action introduces real danger, leaving her to protect both the stolen artifact and herself.

Sophie Olivette's father announces plans to leave her mother, marry her sister's college roommate, and sell their home. With the family distracted or overwhelmed, Sophie turns to a dependable classmate for help resisting the collapse of everything familiar.

Captured during the 1704 attack on Deerfield, Mercy Carter endures a long journey to a Kahnawake community in Canada. Waiting for ransom gradually becomes more complicated as she develops new family ties and begins questioning where she belongs.

When the father who raised Janie suffers a stroke, she helps manage his affairs and uncovers a secret connected to her kidnapping. The discovery threatens the fragile peace between her families and forces her to reconsider loyalties she thought were settled.

Four years after a death at a friend's lake house, Rose learns the police have reopened the case and obtained her diary. Her determination to recover it raises suspicion, making the secrets she protects increasingly dangerous to her future.

Annie asks Time to reunite her with Strat in Cairo in 1899, but arrives in ancient Egypt instead. As Strat faces pressure from his father in another century, both must depend on the force that once brought them together.

After pirates destroy her island home, Anaxandra survives by claiming a dead princess's identity. Taken to Sparta, she encounters Helen and the events leading toward the Trojan War, where maintaining her disguise becomes a struggle over loyalty and survival.

Anaxandra protects herself by pretending to be a princess, but the conflict between Sparta and Troy endangers her fragile security. Her journey to Troy draws her into the fighting and forces her to decide where her loyalties truly belong.

Carefree New York teenager Mitty finds old medical books while preparing a biology assignment, then discovers an envelope containing preserved scabs. What seemed useful for a report raises the frightening possibility that he has exposed himself to a deadly disease.

Lily receives a call from her younger brother after their father abandons him at an airport. Rescuing Michael becomes more than a practical emergency as she struggles with anger, family betrayal, and questions about her faith and capacity for forgiveness.

Brit has held a driver's license for only eleven days when her grandmother enlists her for a trip with elderly college friends. Responsible for getting them to a reunion, she encounters the demands and rewards of their lifelong friendship.

The Finch family welcomes four African refugees through a church sponsorship, unaware that a fifth person has arrived with them. As hidden histories emerge, teenager Jared must question appearances and make choices that could affect the safety of both families.

Lady Mary loses her father when he is executed for treason and remains a ward in Macbeth's household. As murderous ambition transforms the castle around her, she must struggle to survive and find opportunities to prevent further deaths.

Five friends anticipate a school dance, planning their clothes, partners, and hopes for romance. Over the course of Saturday night, their expectations collide with the realities of love and friendship, creating experiences that may bring happiness, loss, or heartbreak.

Jack Fountain and his sisters resist their aunt's plan to turn their family's tragedies into television entertainment. Protecting their young brother leads them to question the account of their father's death, with less than a day to uncover the truth.

A classmate identifies Cathy Ferris as a missing girl whose parents fled after embezzling millions. The accusation revives a scandal and attracts FBI attention, forcing Cathy to confront questions about identity, family loyalty, and the consequences of someone else's crimes.

Best friends and cousins Missy and Claire stage a scientific hoax to investigate Missy's questions about their family. When a video spreads online, their experiment exposes unexpected secrets, putting their identities and the futures of several families into doubt.

Lutie Painter skips school and takes a bus toward danger, while other young people in her Southern community confront anger, loneliness, and uncertainty. Songs inherited from her ancestors connect their intersecting lives to a neglected piece of American history.

Kidnapped as a toddler and reunited with her birth family as a teenager, Janie Johnson faces lingering danger as a young woman. This short story revisits her relationships and the unresolved consequences of the discovery that transformed her life.

Janie Johnson's story reaches its final reckoning as the consequences of her childhood kidnapping continue to affect both families. Her relationship with Reeve faces questions about its endurance, while the person responsible for their suffering may finally face justice.

Sisters Miranda and Lander Allerdon begin another summer at their family's Connecticut River cottage, divided by rivalry and different ambitions. A devastating tragedy transforms their relationship, forcing the family to reconsider what happened and what their future might hold.

Playful rhymes imagine hugs inspired by bears, fish, and other creatures, giving parents and children different ways to express affection. Tim Warnes's illustrations accompany the humorous comparisons as the shared activity moves toward snuggling down at bedtime.

Retiree Clemmie photographs an intriguing object in a neighbor's home and forwards the image, unwittingly exposing her carefully hidden life. When police discover a body, the South Carolina resident faces scrutiny that threatens secrets concealed for fifty years.

A winter day inspires imaginative hugs, from polar bears playing in snow to geese and other animals offering their own embraces. Rhyming text and Tim Warnes's illustrations connect snowy adventures with the warmth of affection between adults and children.

Freddy visits his beloved grandmother in a nursing home as dementia erodes her memories. When another resident is murdered, his determination to protect her clashes with his questionable income and friendships, making police attention an unwelcome complication.

A familiar face in church forces Muffin to confront the crime she stopped in South Carolina fifty years earlier. Confiding in neighbor Clemmie exposes dangerous secrets both women have carried, with consequences neither can safely leave in the past.