Laura L Sullivan Books in Order
Browse Laura L Sullivan books in order, with short summaries, related series, and simple tips on where to start reading her fantasy, history, and mystery.
Last updated: July 11, 2026
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Laura L Sullivan books in publication order
24 books
Under the Green Hill
by Laura L Sullivan
2010
Meg Morgan and her siblings are sent to the English countryside for the summer and stumble into a fairy war that returns every seventh year. When her brother Rowan is chosen as a champion, Meg must decide how far she will go to save him.
Guardian of the Green Hill
by Laura L Sullivan
2011
Only weeks after surviving a fairy war, Meg Morgan faces a new threat when a sinister painter comes to the Rookery. As the Guardian of the Green Hill is targeted and someone Meg loves is taken, she may be the only one who can set things right.
Lana Halliday
by Laura L Sullivan
2011
Lana Halliday is part sleuth, part trickster, and very good at meddling. When her friend Ronnie loses both his fiancee and the expensive ring he gave her, Lana steps in with comic, not entirely ethical, solutions.
Ladies in Waiting
by Laura L Sullivan
2012
At the court of Charles II, three very different young women, all named Elizabeth, become attendants to Queen Catherine. Ambition, scandal, and romance pull them in different directions as each tries to shape her own future.
A Man of Kiri maru
by Laura L Sullivan
2013
A scientist hunting giant squid travels to the eerie island of Kiri Maru and falls for a local woman. To stay with her, he must face the island's brutal customs and the monstrous Red Brothers lurking in the water.
An Artistic Temperament
by Laura L Sullivan
2013
Cyril Payne, a charming freeloader with too much time on his hands, decides to liven things up by meddling in a sheltered girl's life. His playful scheming quickly turns into a comic mess involving a sauna and a dead body.
Clever Elody
by Laura L Sullivan
2013
Poor Elody is loved by a prince who cannot marry her, and a cruel king is determined to keep them apart. Elody answers with wit, a borrowed chicken, and a bit of magic aimed at happiness rather than grandeur.
Delusion
by Laura L Sullivan
2013
Seventeen-year-old stage magician Phil Albion is sent away from blitzed London and discovers a hidden college of real magicians. Desperate to help England fight back, she risks her heart and her life to draw them into the war.
Larval
by Laura L Sullivan
2013
Two debt-ridden graduates meet alien girls who claim humans are only an unfinished larval stage. One of the men is tempted by the promise of metamorphosis, until cosmic transformation starts to look far worse than his dead-end life.
Louring Age
by Laura L Sullivan
2013
Millie is old, sharp-tongued, and increasingly trapped by her failing body. When she is mistaken for a dementia patient and confined to an institution, her fight to escape becomes a grim psychological horror story about age and helplessness.
Snake Plant
by Laura L Sullivan
2013
Oskar wants a pet snake, but his cold mother makes him prove himself by caring for a plant first. She plans to sabotage it, only to discover that this particular plant is far stranger, and tougher, than she expected.
The Butterfly Hunter
by Laura L Sullivan
2013
O. Beauford Jasper spends his life stalking rare butterflies, not to collect them but to blast them apart. His obsession leads him deep into the Amazon, where one supposedly extinct butterfly brings his cruelty back on him.
The Ideal Household Appliance
by Laura L Sullivan
2013
A reclusive entomologist creates robotic roaches that clean houses at night without the mess of real insects. But when he fixates on his neighbor and her violent ex returns, his clever invention develops some dangerous complications.
Jacqueline Woodson
by Laura L Sullivan
2014
A short biography introducing young readers to Jacqueline Woodson's life and work. It follows her path to becoming an author and highlights the books and ideas that made her an important voice in children's literature.
Love by the Morning Star
by Laura L Sullivan
2014
On the brink of World War II, a Jewish refugee and a British fascist's daughter are mistaken for each other at an English country estate. Their switched identities spark romance, danger, and a tense battle over who they really are.
Charles Darwin
by Laura L Sullivan
2015
A concise biography of Charles Darwin that traces his curiosity, travels, and scientific work. It explains how his observations, especially from the voyage of the Beagle, helped shape the theory of evolution.
South Carolina: The Palmetto State
by Laura L Sullivan
2015
An accessible introduction to South Carolina for young readers. It covers the state's geography, history, symbols, economy, and everyday life, giving a clear picture of what makes the Palmetto State distinctive.
Life as a Passenger on the Mayflower
by Laura L Sullivan
2016
This kid-friendly history book shows what the Mayflower voyage was like for the men, women, and children on board. It covers why they left England, the harsh conditions at sea, and the lasting impact of the journey.
Murder Among the Stars
by Laura L Sullivan
2017
At Hearst Castle, aspiring actress Lulu Kelly is up for the role of a lifetime when a rival starlet is murdered. To save her chance, and her own life, Lulu and Freddie have to unmask a killer hiding behind Hollywood glamour.
The Blue-Ringed Octopus
by Laura L Sullivan
2017
This nonfiction guide explores one of the world's most venomous sea creatures. It looks at the blue-ringed octopus's habitat, hunting habits, warning colors, and the science behind its dangerous bite.
How Animals Taste
by Laura L Sullivan
2019
A clear, lively look at how animals use taste to survive and find food. From octopuses tasting with their suckers to grazers avoiding toxic plants, it shows how different species experience flavor in very different ways.
Milady
by Laura L Sullivan
2019
This historical novel reimagines Milady de Winter from *The Three Musketeers* as a clever, driven woman telling her own story. From England to the intrigues of the French court, she fights betrayal, desire, and the limits placed on her.
The Cat I Never Named
by Laura L Sullivan
2020
In wartime Bosnia, a young girl and her beloved cat become anchors in a world collapsing around them. This memoir traces friendship, first love, and survival during the Bosnian genocide with unusual immediacy.
Three Summers
by Laura L Sullivan
2024
Five cousins spend three summers on a small island in the Una River as ethnic tensions rise around them in 1980s Bosnia. Their closeness carries them through adolescence, heartbreak, and the approach of war.
Where to start with Laura L Sullivan
For classic-feeling middle grade fantasy: Under the Green Hill → Guardian of the Green Hill
For court intrigue and historical drama: Ladies in Waiting → Love by the Morning Star → Milady
For wartime magic and romance: Delusion
For true stories shaped by war and survival: The Cat I Never Named → Three Summers
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Short Stories/Novellas

Lana Halliday
by Laura L Sullivan
2011
An Artistic Temperament
by Laura L Sullivan
2013
Clever Elody
by Laura L Sullivan
2013
Snake Plant
by Laura L Sullivan
2013
A Man of Kiri maru
by Laura L Sullivan
2013
The Butterfly Hunter
by Laura L Sullivan
2013
The Ideal Household Appliance
by Laura L Sullivan
2013
Larval
by Laura L Sullivan
2013
Louring Age
by Laura L Sullivan
2013
Standalone Laura L Sullivan books
Author bio
Laura L. Sullivan did not come to writing by way of a tidy, straight line. Before becoming an author, she worked as a newspaper editor, a biologist, a social worker, and a deputy sheriff. That range matters, because her books move with unusual ease between history, fantasy, mystery, science, and real-world survival.
She has said that storytelling is the easiest way to do everything in the world.
That helps explain the sheer spread of her work. For younger readers, she wrote the middle grade fantasy pair Under the Green Hill and Guardian of the Green Hill, books that send Meg Morgan and her siblings into an English fairy war full of old houses, folklore, danger, and divided loyalties. Readers who like classic-feeling fantasy, with siblings at the center and a strong sense of place, often start there.
From there, Sullivan branched into young adult historical fiction with books like Ladies in Waiting, Delusion, and Love by the Morning Star. These novels all have very different plots, but they share a similar pull. She likes periods when the world feels unstable, when court life, war, class, or politics push young characters into choices they were not ready to make.
History matters in her work, but it never feels sealed off behind museum glass.
In Milady, her adult debut, Sullivan takes the notorious Milady de Winter from The Three Musketeers and gives her backstory, drive, and a point of view of her own. She has also written mystery with Adam Shankman in Murder Among the Stars, a glamorous old Hollywood whodunit, and worked as a collaborator on The Cat I Never Named and Three Summers, two books rooted in Bosnia, memory, and war.
Her shorter fiction shows another side of her range. Stories like Lana Halliday, An Artistic Temperament, The Butterfly Hunter, The Ideal Household Appliance, and Larval jump from comedy to horror to science fiction. Even when the premise gets strange, Sullivan tends to keep one foot on recognizable human behavior, vanity, curiosity, loneliness, greed, fear.
Across genres, she returns to people who are underestimated, trapped, or asked to think their way through systems bigger than themselves. Her characters notice things. They notice old family rules, social traps, scientific oddities, animal behavior, weather, clothing, rooms, and the small details that reveal who really holds power.
She has also written a good deal of nonfiction for young readers, including books on animal senses, dangerous creatures, major scientists, states, and children's authors. That part of her bibliography fits neatly with the biologist side of her background, and it rounds out a career that is both curious and hard to pin to one shelf.
Official author bios say she lives in Florida, on the coast, with her son. That feels like a fitting present-day note for a writer whose work can move from fairy hills to royal courts to cephalopods without losing its balance.
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