Jane Langton Books in Order

During the Depression, Grace Jones becomes convinced that a series of coincidences proves she is the future Queen of England. She hopes her imagined royal connections can help her family escape its financial difficulties.

Eddy and Eleanor Hall discover a mysterious attic room in their unusual Concord home. Its stained-glass window, abandoned toys, and two empty beds draw them toward magical adventures and unsettling secrets about their family's past.

Ernest Goss claims to possess scandalous love letters involving Concord's celebrated transcendentalists, then dies from a musket shot. Emerson scholar and detective Homer Kelly must investigate a killing that brings literary history into the present.

Eddy and Eleanor discover that a swing can carry them through the summerhouse's archways into extraordinary worlds. Each journey tests their understanding of themselves, while one forbidden entrance promises an especially dangerous adventure.

Five mysterious cards arrive for Eddy Hall's stereoscope, showing scenes that seem strangely connected to his own home. Eddy and Eleanor investigate images containing a dangling rope and a familiar cat, wondering whether they can enter them.

Grace Jones prefers a tomboy's adventures to the behavior her parents and classmates expect of a girl. Her determination to remain herself brings conflicts at home and school as she searches for heroes and independence.

Poet Kitty Clark visits Nantucket to watch a solar eclipse, only to find her former lover's wife dead at her feet. Arrested for murder, she turns to Homer Kelly, who suspects the evidence conceals another story.

Evelyn Underhill begins college and discovers an unfamiliar world of intense friendships, mischievous escapades, and intellectual questions. During her first semester, the excitement of independence challenges her expectations about learning, belonging, and the people around her.

An explosion at Harvard's Memorial Hall leaves a headless body believed to be a beloved conductor. Professor and former detective Homer Kelly questions the apparent accident as tensions over the university's expansion provide troubling motives.

Georgie discovers that her leaps can carry her astonishing distances, then receives a nighttime visit from a mysterious Canada goose. Their flying lessons open an extraordinary friendship, but a hostile hunter threatens the bird's safety.

Edward Heron's death appears to result from asthma and insect stings, but young John Hand suspects a neighbor knows more. He asks his uncle, Homer Kelly, to investigate the people who could benefit from the tragedy.

As Amherst prepares to commemorate Emily Dickinson, a university dormitory burns and two students die. Homer Kelly suspects arson, and further violence draws him into the town's literary celebration and the rivalries surrounding its scholars.

Georgie Hall sets out from Concord for Washington with a letter to the President and an old flag that produces visions. Joined by other children, she hopes to stop a missile project before its threatened consequences unfold.

A childless couple receives a mysterious infant covered in prickles from the Forest Mother. Years later, the hedgehog boy offers a lost king help in exchange for a promise to marry the king's daughter.

The congregation at Old West Church is shrinking because parishioners keep dying. Former detective Homer Kelly investigates which deaths are natural and which may conceal murder, finding troubling mysteries within a small New England community.

Strange pranks threaten Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, whose founding terms forbid changes to its collection. Hired to investigate, Homer Kelly initially doubts their seriousness until escalating events expose dangerous interests among the museum's circle.

This illustrated tour explores Devon through its connections with Agatha Christie. Words and pictures introduce the English county that was her home, presenting a geographical view of the places associated with the celebrated mystery writer.

Teaching at an American school in Florence, Homer Kelly confronts murders and a missing student. A literary scavenger hunt based on Dante appears connected to crimes around the city, complicating preparations for a papal visit.

Residents near Walden Pond begin dying while Concord debates new commercial development. Homer Kelly suspects the deaths are connected and investigates a community divided over preserving its historic landscape or reshaping it for the future.

Considered too foolish to trust with a valuable shipment, a merchant's youngest son receives a boat carrying wooden spoons. Ivan's voyage leads him to unexpected trading opportunities, salt, and the attention of a princess.

A Boston church replaces its organ after a suspicious fire kills the sexton. When an unattended infant appears on its steps, organist Alan Starr joins Homer Kelly in searching for the child's missing mother.

Cruel King Hendrik orders Queen Blanzeflor always to wear his necklace of one hundred pearls. As she secretly gives the pearls to impoverished villagers, her generosity places her in danger from the husband who controls her.

As Cambridge prepares its annual Christmas Revels, a fatal road incident troubles Mary Kelly. Homer investigates deaths surrounding the production while its director manages a demanding show and tensions mount among performers, families, and townspeople.

Homer Kelly's visiting fellowship at Oxford brings him into a series of suspicious deaths. Academic rivalries, a stolen dodo painting, and disputes linking Darwin to a fierce religious opponent complicate his investigation among the scholars.

Illustrator Annie Swann paints a fairy-tale mural in her new home, but an eerie face repeatedly appears. When a child is found dead beneath the wall, her uncle Homer Kelly investigates the tragedy and surrounding threats.

Homer Kelly attends a rare-books conference in Venice while Mary photographs the city. One of her pictures captures something dangerous, drawing the couple into a murder mystery tied to hidden treasures and wartime secrets.

An old-fashioned bicycle arrives for Eddy Hall from his mysterious uncle, Prince Krishna. Discovering that it can travel through time, Eddy and his companions undertake adventures whose unintended consequences threaten both their plans and their safety.

As Monticello prepares for a presidential celebration, a killer targets young women nearby. Homer Kelly visits his former student, historian Fern Fisher, and investigates when another researcher becomes a suspect and Fern faces danger.

Leonard Sheldrake falls for a woman during an Escher exhibition, then loses contact with her. Recruiting Homer and Mary Kelly to help find her, he uncovers clues that lead through Cambridge toward increasingly dangerous mysteries.

Mary Kelly discovers her supposedly disgraced ancestor's name among Harvard's Civil War dead. She and Homer investigate Seth Morgan's alleged desertion, following family records and wartime clues to understand what happened during and after Gettysburg.

Pressed to follow his successful book with another, Homer Kelly researches Massachusetts churches and discovers one has vanished. His investigation with Mary uncovers a Reconstruction-era mystery involving rival clergymen, a wounded veteran, and a remarkable chestnut tree.

A visiting cousin introduces the Hall children to a magical circus, while a local official plans a Thoreau theme park across from their home. Their summer entertainment becomes entangled with a struggle to protect the meadow.

A ferocious wolf terrorizes Gubbio, leaving its residents afraid to venture beyond the town walls. Hearing of their plight, Francis travels from Assisi to confront the animal and seek a peaceful agreement between wolf and townspeople.

When a new tree warden begins cutting down Concord's trees, Eddy and Georgie Hall organize defenders for a magical tree in their yard. Their campaign brings them into conflict with a dangerous neighbor and his plans.