Jodi Lynn Anderson Books in Order
Explore Jodi Lynn Anderson books in order, with series guides, quick summaries, and simple tips on where to start with May Bird, Peaches, and more.
Last updated: July 10, 2026
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Publication Order
17 books
Peaches
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
2005
Birdie, Leeda, and Murphy could not be more different, but one hot summer at a Georgia peach orchard throws them together. What starts as punishment and annoyance slowly turns into friendship, first love, and a new sense of who they are.
The Ever After
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
2005
While wandering the woods with Somber Kitty, lonely May Bird falls through a hidden lake into the Ever After, a ghostly world ruled by Bo Cleevil. To get home, she must cross strange lands and trust a most unlikely group of friends.
Among the Stars
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
2006
Still trapped in the Ever After, May Bird travels with her odd band of friends toward the Lady of North Farm, the one figure who might help her get home. The road is eerie, funny, and full of danger.
The Secrets of Peaches
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
2007
The summer after Darlington Orchard changed everything, Murphy, Leeda, and Birdie are back to facing breakups, plans, and uncertain futures. As their lives start pulling apart, they have to decide what their friendship can survive.
Warrior Princess
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
2007
Back home, May Bird is famous but still lonely, and she cannot stop thinking about the Ever After. When she is pulled back into a changed and nearly empty ghost world, she must face Bo Cleevil one last time.
Love and Peaches
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
2008
A year after their lives split in different directions, Murphy, Leeda, and Birdie reunite at Darlington Orchard. Old loves, family upheaval, and hard choices test the friendship that first took root there.
Loser/Queen
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
2010
Cammy Hall is used to life at the bottom of the school social ladder until a mysterious texter starts feeding her secrets and giving her orders. Popularity suddenly seems possible, but it may cost her far more than she expects.
Americapedia
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
2011
Co-written with Daniel Ehrenhaft and Andisheh Nouraee, this irreverent nonfiction guide gives teens a crash course in U.S. politics, culture, and history. It mixes jokes and visuals with real questions about how power works and how people can take part.
Tiger Lily
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
2012
Before Wendy, there was Tiger Lily. In this darker take on Neverland, Tiger Lily falls for Peter Pan and must choose between duty, desire, and survival as danger closes in from every side.
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The Moment Collector
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
2014
A ghost who does not know her own story is drawn to Maggie, Pauline, and Liam just as girls start vanishing across the county. It is a haunted mystery about friendship, danger, and the traces people leave behind.
The Vanishing Season
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
2014
Girls are disappearing in a frozen lakeside town, and a ghost tied to 208 Water Street is watching it happen. As Maggie and Pauline grow closer, old violence and buried secrets begin pushing their way to the surface.
My Diary from the Edge of the World
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
2015
Gracie Lockwood lives on an alternate Earth filled with dragons, mermaids, and Dark Clouds that come for the dying. When one appears for her little brother, her family sets off on a desperate road trip toward the rumored Extraordinary World.
Midnight at the Electric
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
2017
In 2065 Kansas, Adri is preparing to leave for Mars when a diary and a packet of letters pull her into two older lives, one in Dust Bowl Kansas and one in postwar England. Their stories echo across generations in quiet, surprising ways.
The Memory Thief
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
2021
Rosie Oaks has always known something is wrong with her mother. When she discovers a hidden guide to witch hunters, she and her best friend Germ step into a world of ghosts, stories, and a witch who steals memory itself.
Each Night Was Illuminated
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
2022
Years after a train plunged into a lake, Cassie is still haunted by what she saw. When Elias returns and draws her into midnight ghost hunts, old grief, faith, and buried truths begin to rise with him.
The Sea of Always
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
2022
Rosie and Germ set out to hunt the remaining witches, traveling through time and across a magical sea in the belly of an enchanted whale. The quest is bigger, stranger, and far more dangerous than the first.
The Palace of Dreams
by Jodi Lynn Anderson
2023
After escaping Earth, Rosie and the League of Witch Hunters hide on a distant planet until a final chance to save the world sends her into the Museum of Imagined Things. Dreams, memory, and imagination become her last weapons against the Nothing King.
Where should I start?
If you want spooky middle grade fantasy: The Memory Thief → The Sea of Always → The Palace of Dreams
If you want a classic portal adventure: The Ever After → Among the Stars → Warrior Princess
If you want emotional speculative YA: Midnight at the Electric → Tiger Lily → The Vanishing Season
If you want friendship-driven contemporary drama: Peaches → The Secrets of Peaches → Love and Peaches
Author bio
Jodi Lynn Anderson grew up in a lake town in northern New Jersey, where she spent a lot of time in the woods with her cat, watching clouds and making things up. That childhood mix of solitude, nature, and daydreaming feels like the seedbed for much of her fiction, which is full of haunted landscapes, uneasy magic, and young people trying to find solid ground.
That early love of place stuck.
When Anderson was thirteen, her family began living in different places around the world. She has said that experience taught her to think of places as alive, and that idea shows up again and again in her books. Later she studied British literature at the University of Maryland and went on to earn an MFA in writing and literature from Bennington College.
Before she published novels, she worked in books from the inside. Anderson started as an editor at HarperCollins in New York and also worked at 17th Street Productions before turning to writing full time. She has said that her MFA helped her trust her own voice, but the through line was already there: a fascination with story, atmosphere, and the strange edges of ordinary life.
She's a very place-first writer.
You can feel that in the May Bird books, where a lonely girl named May slips from the West Virginia woods into the ghostly Ever After, and in the Thirteen Witches trilogy, where Rosie Oaks learns that stories can be a weapon against real evil. These are middle grade fantasies, but they never talk down to readers. They are spooky, funny, a little sad, and deeply interested in courage.
Anderson can shift gears without losing what makes her her. Peaches and its sequels trade ghosts for a Georgia orchard and three very different girls, Birdie, Leeda, and Murphy, whose friendship grows out of one sticky, complicated summer. Tiger Lily reimagines Neverland from Tiger Lily's side of the story, giving the old myth a darker, more intimate center. It later landed on Time's list of the best young adult books of all time.
Then there are the standalones, which roam widely but still feel connected. My Diary from the Edge of the World turns an alternate version of America into a family road trip full of dragons, Dark Clouds, and wonder. Midnight at the Electric links three girls in 1919, 1934, and 2065, and readers who love layered timelines tend to remember how quietly it pulls those threads together. More recently, Each Night Was Illuminated brought her back to questions of grief, faith, and the unseen things that keep tugging at a life.
Across all of this, certain patterns keep returning. Woods watch. Ghosts linger. Weather matters. Girls who feel a little outside the room have to decide whether they will shrink back or step forward. Even when her books head into fantasy, they usually stay close to family, friendship, loss, and the stubborn hope that stories can help people endure hard things.
Anderson has also taught fiction writing through the Great Smoky Mountains Writing Program at UNC Asheville. Her official bio now says she lives in Senegal, West Africa, with her husband, two children, and an old dog who is still peppy. That feels fitting somehow. Her books have always carried a sense that the world is larger, stranger, and more alive than it first appears.
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