Jaclyn Moriarty Books in Order

Elizabeth Clarry is juggling a vanished best friend, an absent father who suddenly returns, and a household run by fridge notes. Then a school letter-writing project puts her in touch with a stranger who understands more than anyone else.

Lydia, Emily, and Cassie start a pen-pal project with boys from rival Brookfield High and quickly get more than they bargained for. Letters, crushes, lies, and school sabotage turn a classroom assignment into a very messy year.

The Zing family and the people around them are tangled up in spell books, surveillance, love affairs, and one enormous secret. Moving across several women's lives, the novel turns suburban confusion into a comic mystery with a fairy-tale tilt.

Bindy Mackenzie seems to have the perfect life, until a mandatory friendship class and a string of strange symptoms make her suspect someone is out to ruin her. Her clipped transcripts and notes turn the mystery inward as well as outward.

When Listen Taylor's father starts dating a Zing, she finds herself inside a world of covert surveillance, odd magic, and a huge family secret. Her spell book, and the adults' bad decisions, set off consequences nobody fully understands.

When Brookfield transfers Amelia and Riley arrive at Ashbury, they unsettle students and teachers alike. Told through gothic memoirs for a final-year class, the novel mixes school pressure, buried secrets, and the uneasy pull of two magnetic outsiders.

Listen Taylor is pulled into the Zing family's strange orbit of spell books, hidden meetings, and secrets nobody will explain. As the adults around her make increasingly messy choices, Listen's own private fears and loyalties start shaping the story.

Amelia and Riley arrive at Ashbury from Brookfield and immediately seem to change the temperature of the whole school. Told through gothic memoirs, this version of the story leans into secrets, atmosphere, and the fear of the future closing in.

Madeleine, in Cambridge, and Elliot, in the Kingdom of Cello, begin exchanging letters through a crack between worlds. Their correspondence starts as a curiosity and becomes a lifeline as Elliot hunts for his missing father and Madeleine worries about her sick mother.

Princess Ko gathers a team of gifted teens to solve the disappearance of Cello's missing royals before the kingdom slides into war. Elliot and Madeleine keep writing across worlds, trying to bring lost family members home and make sense of widening cracks.

Cello is falling apart, Princess Ko has lost control, and Elliot is trapped while Madeleine faces the end of all contact between worlds. The final book turns private loyalties into a race to save a kingdom in open crisis.

After her long-absent parents are killed by pirates, ten-year-old Bronte is ordered by their magically binding will to deliver gifts to ten aunts. The journey looks annoying at first, then turns into a sprawling adventure full of family secrets and danger.

At a tournament in Spindrift, children from an orphanage school and a posh boarding school begin as enemies. Then Whisperers, kidnappings, and a magical flu force Finlay, Honey Bee, and their friends to work together or lose their town.

Rival schoolchildren in Spindrift are pushed into an uneasy alliance when the Whispering Wars reach their town. With children disappearing and dark magic spreading fast, Finlay and Honey Bee have to grow up quickly and fight back.

Abigail Sorensen has spent years linking two mysteries from 1990: the arrival of stray chapters from a self-help book, and her brother's disappearance. An invitation to a retreat promises answers, but the truth is stranger and more painful than she expects.

Oscar slips out of Sydney and into a magical world, where an Elven city is trapped beneath a deadly silver spell. To save the city, and himself, he must help find nine scattered pieces of a key before time runs out.

Esther Mettlestone-Staranise returns to boarding school expecting routine and finds rumors of an ogre teacher, hidden magic, and shadow mages in the mountains. As the lost Prince of Cloudburst reappears, several puzzles start pointing toward the same danger.

On her tenth birthday, lonely Lillian Velvet receives a pickle jar full of gold coins and strict instructions. Instead of a quiet day, the coins send her into a dangerous web of magic where other children's lives may depend on what she does next.

A small Sydney shop claims to send customers into the past, and three strangers are drawn into its orbit. Anna sees a chance to start over, Teddy wants answers about his broken marriage, and Jade distrusts the whole idea for very personal reasons.