Eliot Schrefer Books in Order

Burdened with college loans, Noah becomes an SAT tutor for wealthy Manhattan teenagers. His work with a privileged brother and sister draws him into their troubled family, where academic ambition, drugs, and their mother's expectations extend beyond ordinary tutoring.

Fifteen-year-old Humphrey struggles with belonging and attraction after another family move brings him to Florida. A trip to Italy with his half-sister Gretchen offers escape from their separate troubles, but their holiday develops a darker and more dangerous direction.

SAT tutor Eliot Schrefer shares approaches to vocabulary, mathematics, and grammar drawn from his work with private-school students. The guide combines test-taking shortcuts and study priorities with anecdotes, aiming to make expensive coaching techniques accessible to a wider audience.

Angela's parents send her to Hidden Oak, an isolated school promising to rehabilitate troubled girls. She discovers that its programs treat students very differently, with some pushed toward greater dependence and danger rather than the recovery their families expect.

Abby Goodwin believes her sister Maya is innocent when Maya's tutor is found dead. After Maya runs away, Abby follows clues through the victim's secrets and enemies, questioning whether her search is uncovering truth or following someone else's manipulation.

Visiting her mother's bonobo sanctuary in Congo, Sophie forms a bond with an infant called Otto. When armed conflict reaches the sanctuary, they escape into the jungle and must struggle to survive while Sophie protects the animal who depends on her.

Orphaned Luc accepts work from a mysterious researcher after attempting to rob him. Their journey into the jungle to study chimpanzees offers Luc an unexpected sense of family, but new dangers force him to defend the creatures he has come to know.

John grew up alongside Raja, an orangutan taken from the wild and kept in his family's home. After divorce separates them, Raja faces a dangerous new fate, prompting John to confront family fractures and attempt one last rescue.

Young panther Mez discovers she can cross the boundary separating Caldera's night creatures from its daytime animals. With unfamiliar magical powers and unlikely new friends, she investigates an ancient mystery as an awakening evil threatens their rainforest home.

A natural disaster leaves young gorilla Snub caring for her baby sibling in a transformed prehistoric landscape. When she takes in an orphaned human, the encounter creates unexpected bonds and dangers between species learning to share a changing world.

Gogi and his shadowwalker friends seek an object capable of channeling an eclipse's magic against the Ant Queen. With the rainforest under attack and the eclipse approaching, the young monkey must learn to control his unpredictable fire powers.

Caldera faces threats from a stirring volcano and the emerging Elemental of Darkness. Wind-controlling tree frog Rumi becomes an unlikely leader, struggling with personal secrets as his animal companions divide their efforts to protect the rainforest from both dangers.

Nina and Joe Popper discover two penguin eggs near the furnace of their new home. Finding a suitable place for the chicks sends them on a long, storm-filled journey to the Arctic in an adventure connected to their family's penguin history.

Ambrose wakes aboard a rescue spacecraft without remembering its launch, while his hostile shipmate Kodiak keeps his distance. Strange evidence and the ship's unsettling behavior force them to cooperate, questioning their mission as mistrust gradually gives way to connection.

Former chicken thief Esquire Fox and rooster Mr. Pepper run an agency rescuing endangered animals. A polar bear cub's predicament takes them to the Arctic, where signs of deliberate harm bring their operation into conflict with a human adversary.

Esquire Fox and Mr. Pepper arrive for a tropical concert to discover its pangolin star trapped underground. Suspected sabotage and several possible culprits turn the invitation into a rescue mission that requires solving the mystery before time runs out.

Schrefer explores the variety of sexual behavior documented across the animal kingdom, combining scientific research, history, interviews, and illustrated humor. Examples from many species also illuminate how human assumptions and cultural biases have shaped the study of animal sexuality.

Gifted young pianist Léon Delafosse needs wealthy patronage to succeed in 1890s Paris. Marcel Proust introduces him to high society, but ambition pulls him away from his family and Félix, the childhood friend he may love.

On a distant exoplanet, Ambrose and Kodiak raise two children whose family faces an unexpected internal threat. Thirty thousand years earlier, another Ambrose discovers a betrayal, and connections across time may determine both households’ survival.