DJ MacHale Books in Order

A white bear offers a poor Norwegian family riches if their youngest daughter lives with him. Breaking his instructions sends the girl on a journey to a distant castle, where a troll queen awaits.

Emma and her brother David grow suspicious when the Braun family moves into their neighborhood. Their son Lex dresses in black, stays out of school, and appears only at night, raising fears that their neighbors are vampires.

Fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon follows his uncle Press to Denduron, a world facing rebellion against a cruel ruler. Getting home means confronting dangers he never imagined and learning why this unfamiliar territory needs his help.

Bobby and Uncle Press arrive on Cloral, where cities float above an ocean and war threatens their inhabitants. The search for the vanished city of Faar may offer a way to prevent the territory's destruction.

Bobby and Spader travel to First Earth, encountering New York in 1937 amid gangsters and looming war. Saint Dane's scheme forces Bobby to consider how changing events in one era might endanger other versions of Earth.

On Veelox, Bobby discovers a population absorbed in virtual worlds that fulfill their desires while their bodies remain in stasis. Saint Dane threatens this territory, but saving its inhabitants means challenging the appeal of their perfect dreams.

A deadly plague threatens Eelong, and Bobby believes an antidote from another territory could save its inhabitants. Bringing it across worlds would violate the Travelers' rules, leaving him torn between immediate rescue and potentially disastrous consequences.

This illustrated companion surveys the worlds visited in the early Pendragon adventures, from Cloral's oceans to Eelong's jungles. Territory information and character profiles introduce their inhabitants, customs, Travelers, and the threat posed by Saint Dane.

Quillan's rulers make desperate people compete in dangerous games for a chance at freedom, with death awaiting losers. Bobby enters their contests, hoping to survive long enough to challenge the system that keeps the population oppressed.

Saint Dane exploits tensions between Zadaa's Batu and Rokador peoples, pushing their territory toward war. Bobby joins Loor to oppose him while confronting new abilities and the responsibilities that come with his growing role as a Traveler.

Bobby reaches Ibara, an apparently peaceful paradise whose leaders conceal unsettling truths. As he investigates Saint Dane's plans there, Courtney faces a separate crisis on Second Earth, where Mark has disappeared and needs to be found.

With Bobby trapped on Ibara, Mark and Courtney confront a dangerous movement on Second Earth. Saint Dane's widening campaign brings the territories into collision, threatening connections between worlds that once seemed separate and putting Earth at risk.

Bobby and the other Travelers face Saint Dane in the final struggle for Halla. Their search for the tenth territory brings together the stakes of every previous journey as the future of all worlds hangs in uncertainty.

Three prequel stories explore the Travelers' lives before Bobby's arrival: Spader trains in Cloral's underwater world, Gunny pursues a murderer in 1930s Manhattan, and Kasha faces challenges on Eelong before discovering her larger destiny.

Before joining Bobby's fight, Loor pursues a stolen item on Zadaa, Siry encounters a captured flighter on Ibara, and Patrick investigates burning books on Third Earth. These three prequels explore the future Travelers' earlier challenges.

Aja faces a dangerous challenge involving Veelox's Lifelight technology, Elli uncovers resistance to Blok on Quillan, and Alder trains to become a Bedoowan knight. Their separate prequel stories trace lives shaped before Bobby Pendragon's arrival.

Marshall Seaver is haunted by a frightening figure from his own sketchbook as his best friend Cooper disappears. Joining Cooper's sister Sydney to search for him, Marshall finds the mysteries of his artwork and friend's disappearance intertwined.

Lala, a cave-dwelling monster, longs to become a princess and leaves her home for a royal castle. Cruel treatment by the princesses challenges her dream, raising questions about beauty, kindness, and what makes someone worthy of royalty.

Cooper Foley finds himself between the worlds of the living and the dead, confronting dangers his friend Marshall cannot understand. His encounters with Damon reveal another perspective on the haunting and the mysteries surrounding Morpheus Road.

Marshall and Cooper confront Damon as he threatens the boundary between the living and the dead. With both realms endangered, the friends must decide whom to trust and how to oppose an enemy seeking to overturn their worlds.

Navy forces quarantine Tucker Pierce's Maine island, claiming a deadly virus is spreading. Strange aircraft, unexplained deaths, and a substance that boosts physical power lead Tucker to suspect that the military's explanation conceals something far more dangerous.

An ordinary scout field trip takes an unexpected turn when Kit spots an object falling from space. What begins as a familiar outdoor excursion becomes a mysterious encounter with something arriving from beyond Earth.

After escaping their quarantined island, Tucker and his friends discover a deserted mainland and a conflict involving mysterious black aircraft. Their journey across the country becomes a search for answers in a war where loyalties remain unclear.

Held at a Retro base, Tucker and his friends endure forced labor and efforts to reshape their minds. A SYLO attack creates a chance to escape, but a mysterious dome may hold answers about the devastating war.

With Earth's energy supply failing, children compete for places on a mission to locate a new power source. Four selected teammates must combine their abilities as their journey through space brings unfamiliar planets and dangerous challenges.

Marcus and his friends discover a key to a mysterious Library filled with unfinished supernatural stories. Strange apparitions and a threatening woman demand its surrender, drawing them into a puzzle whose dangers extend beyond the shelves.

Marcus, Lu, and Theo investigate unexplained accidents at a Massachusetts middle school on behalf of the Library. Shattering windows and collapsing bleachers suggest witchcraft, and the approaching black moon gives their investigation an increasingly dangerous deadline.

An amusement-park fortune machine predicts that Theo's life will change disastrously on his fourteenth birthday, while Lu's cousin disappears. Marcus turns to the Library to investigate the dead fortune-teller behind predictions that are coming true.

An invitation and a mechanical dog lead timid storyteller Sam Calico to the magical Equinox Valley. With enchanted toys to help him, he has twenty-four hours to stop Khord from destroying the Nexus that keeps the world balanced.

A thief steals silver, gold, and a rare diamond from the town of Silver Spur. Hitch and Dale pursue the suspect through mechanical armies and other dangers, unaware that sinister forces intend to use the stolen treasures against the planet.

An enigmatic stranger exposes a small town’s buried secrets and restless spirits. Its recently arrived sheriff, a single mother with a teenage daughter, has twenty-four hours to untangle the mystery and confront the horrors threatening her community.