Carolyn Meyer Books in Order

Meyer's first published book teaches children the basics of sewing through approachable instructions and starter projects. It is friendly, practical, and aimed at making a useful skill feel possible.

This beginner's guide to needlework walks young readers through basic stitches and simple projects. It is designed to build confidence one small step at a time.

A clear introduction to dairy foods, this book explains where milk, butter, and cheese come from and how they are made. Meyer turns kitchen basics into approachable food science.

This book pairs simple needlework projects with retellings of Bible stories, giving children a way to make something with their hands while they read. It is gentle, practical, and clearly step by step.

This nonfiction portrait introduces an Amish family and the beliefs, work, customs, and choices that shape their world. Meyer writes with respect and keeps the focus on everyday life.

This lively nonfiction book explores the many ways people use coconuts for food, work, shelter, and daily life. It turns one familiar fruit into a window on culture and geography.

Using a fictional Yup'ik family to guide the reader, Meyer shows what growing up in Alaska looks like in a culture facing rapid change. It blends daily life, tradition, and outside pressure in an easy-to-read format.

C.C. is fifteen, six-foot-one, still growing, and feeling out of place everywhere she turns. As her parents deal with divorce, she has to figure out who she is when nobody else seems to know.

This craft book shows young readers how to design and make masks of their own. It is practical, hands-on, and full of ideas for turning simple materials into dramatic creations.

David enters a center for troubled teens angry, defensive, and sure he will not change. Meyer's novel follows the hard, uneven work of treatment, trust, and starting over.

A cheerful introduction to music for children, this book invites readers to sing, listen, and join simple activities. It treats music as something everyone can enjoy and take part in.

This accessible nonfiction book looks at the making of a rock band, from rehearsals and instruments to performance and group dynamics. It is aimed at young readers curious about how music gets made.

Bored on a family trip to St. Lucia, Sam is changed by his friendship with Eulalia, a local girl who shows him the island beyond the tourist view. Their bond opens his eyes to a much larger world.

Sixteen-year-old Texas McCoy inherits a struggling New Mexico ranch and refuses to give up on it. Stubborn, capable, and often wrong about other people, she learns that independence and trust have to grow together.

This readable exploration of Maya civilization follows the clues archaeologists use to understand its cities, beliefs, writing, and decline. It turns ancient history into an unfolding puzzle.

Meyer traveled through South Africa during apartheid and asked young people, black and white, what growing up there felt like. Their answers make the system's damage personal, immediate, and hard to forget.

Denny records his thoughts on tape as he drives across the country in search of the black father he barely knows. What begins as an angry road trip becomes a deeper search for identity, family, and home.

Based on interviews from Meyer's trip, this nonfiction book lets young people in Northern Ireland speak about daily life amid religious and political conflict. It brings a divided place close through personal voices.

Meyer travels through Japan, talking with adults and children and recording what everyday life looks and feels like from the inside. The result is a curious, accessible portrait of a society in transition.

When escaped convict Jimmy Chavez reaches out to the daughter he barely knows, Andrea impulsively goes on the run with him. Their wilderness flight becomes a raw story about rebellion, regret, and the chance to see each other clearly.

Lissa's suicide leaves her friends reeling, and Jenny cannot stop asking what they missed. To honor Lissa, four students create a school hotline and quickly learn how heavy listening can be.

A runaway girl calling herself Sidney starts pulling the hotline volunteers into her life. Compassion becomes risky when helping one caller begins to threaten the whole project.

Angie thinks she understands hard choices until a quiet classmate asks for help with an unwanted pregnancy. At the same time, pressure in her own relationship forces her to decide what she believes.

Lan is certain drugs ruin lives, until hotline calls and his friend Adam make the issue far less simple. The novel mixes friendship, family strain, and moral pressure without easy answers.

Cynthia Ann Parker is taken by the Comanches as a child, then forced back years later into a white world that no longer feels like home. Meyer turns her life into a moving novel about identity and belonging.

Rose Lee Jefferson loves her Texas home, but white leaders want to wipe out her black community and turn the land into a park. The novel turns a real history of displacement into a vivid, personal story.

A diverse class at an Albuquerque middle school creates a book about New Mexico to raise money for school. Their linked stories and essays explore heritage, folklore, food, and family history from many angles.

A Jewish girl's objection to a Christian marching-band performance turns her school into a battleground. One churchgoing boy's decision to stand beside her gives this story its heart and its tension.

This classroom-friendly collection uses folk songs and monthly activities to introduce children to music from many cultures. It is built for singing, participation, and hands-on learning.

When Isaac, the son of an Orthodox Jewish peddler, is injured, an Amish family takes him in. His recovery becomes a thoughtful story about friendship, faith, and the surprising overlap between two worlds.

Returning to a Yup'ik village she first wrote about years earlier, Meyer looks at what change has brought and what it threatens to erase. The book reads easily but asks hard questions about culture, identity, and survival.

Emily Rose travels from Connecticut to Texas after an invitation from the great-grandmother she has never met. The trip opens a painful family history and asks what it means to belong to more than one story.

Mary Tudor grows up expecting love, rank, and safety, then loses all three when her father turns against her mother. This is the story of a proud, frightened girl learning how little a princess can control.

Anastasia begins her diary as a mischievous Russian grand duchess more interested in skating and teasing than politics. Then war, illness, and revolution creep into her family's world.

Teenage Isabel of Castilla must navigate dangerous family loyalties, unwanted marriage plans, and a kingdom split by ambition. Her diary shows a future queen learning when to bend and when not to.

After Henry VIII's death, Princess Elizabeth is surrounded by suspicion, religious pressure, and deadly court politics. Survival becomes her first job, long before she has any chance to rule.

Anne Boleyn wants Henry VIII, the crown, and the power that comes with it. Meyer tells her story from the inside, showing both the thrill of ambition and the danger built into her rise.

When Dorcas returns to her Pennsylvania hometown, she finds her elderly mother at the center of a scandal over a new series of paintings. This adult novel follows three generations of women as old secrets finally surface.

Raised like a prince and named heir to Sweden, Kristina grows into a brilliant, stubborn young ruler. Her diary charts the tension between royal duty and the freedom she wants for herself.

Catherine of Aragon leaves Spain as a teenager to marry Prince Arthur and secure an alliance. Widowhood, uncertainty, and court politics test the patience and resolve that will define the rest of her life.

Marie van Goethem is a poor Paris ballet student whose face and body become immortal through Degas's Little Dancer. The novel follows her hard work, hunger, and fragile hopes beneath the glamour of art.

Anne Hathaway is older, sharper, and more grounded than the boy who will become William Shakespeare. Meyer's novel imagines the pull between love, marriage, and Will's growing hunger for a larger life.

Orphaned Catherine de' Medici grows up surrounded by shifting alliances, violence, and schemes. Long before she becomes a notorious queen, she learns that survival at court requires patience and nerve.

Nannerl Mozart is as gifted as her younger brother, but the world has much smaller plans for her. This novel gives her talent, frustration, and longing the spotlight they rarely get.

Charley Darwin hates classrooms but loves collecting beetles, birds' eggs, rocks, and ideas. His restless curiosity carries him from uncertain boyhood to the voyage that will change science.

Marie Antoinette leaves Austria for Versailles and discovers that rank offers very little freedom. The novel follows her dazzling rise and the mounting pressure that turns public fascination into fury.

Before she becomes the famous queen, Cleopatra is a clever, ambitious girl trapped in a palace full of spies, rivals, and danger. Her sharp first-person voice keeps the politics tense and personal.

Mary Stuart leaves Scotland as a child, grows up at the French court, and returns to rule a dangerous homeland. Meyer's novel traces the passion, missteps, and political traps that shape Mary, Queen of Scots.

After Helen of Troy runs away with Paris, her daughter Hermione slips aboard a Greek ship to find her. The journey pulls her straight into the Trojan War, and into hard choices about love, family, and loyalty.

Young Victoria grows up watched, managed, and boxed in by her mother and Sir John Conroy. This novel follows her fight for independence as she moves toward the throne and toward Albert.

Anastasia Romanov and her sisters live in glittering privilege, but war and unrest are closing in. Told through Anastasia's sharp, lively voice, this novel captures a family world beginning to crack.

Kitty Evans heads west in the 1920s to become a Harvey Girl and discover a life bigger than the one she left behind. Her diary records hard work, friendship, romance, and the less glamorous side of adventure.

Margaret Bourke-White starts as Peggy White, a young woman drawn to cameras, industry, and risk. The novel follows her rise into one of the best-known photographers of the 1930s and World War II.

Georgia O'Keeffe grows from a determined girl in Wisconsin into an artist who refuses to paint the way others expect. Carolyn Meyer turns her long search for an original vision into an intimate coming-of-age story.

This warm travel memoir follows Carolyn, Kel, and their adopted dogs Bea and B.B. on their first four road trips together. It mixes scenery, mishaps, and dog-centered adventure with plenty of affection.

The second Dog Vacations collection follows six more road trips with Bea and B.B., the dogs who help shape every stop and detour. Expect humor, travel chaos, and the everyday pleasures of seeing the country with dogs in tow.