Lynne Reid Banks Books in Order

Pregnant and turned out by her father, Jane Graham rents a shabby attic room in Fulham and tries to disappear. Instead, she finds a rough little community and has to fight for her dignity and future.

Martha Fletcher takes a secretarial job with the difficult writer Aaron Franks and is pulled into a fierce, unsettling relationship. Set between London and Israel, the story probes love, identity, and the urge to keep running from yourself.

Gerda Shaffer, shattered by loss and the collapse of her marriage, drifts in a poor part of Israel. An unlikely friendship with an Arab house-painter and his daughter slowly draws her back toward human connection.

Jane is no longer the frightened woman of the first book, but growing up has not made life simpler. Work, love, and motherhood pull her in different directions as she tries to build a life that fits both her and her son.

Fourteen-year-old Lesley is furious when her father uproots the family from comfortable Canada to a kibbutz in Israel. What begins as rebellion slowly becomes a searching story about identity, belonging, and the people on the other side of the river.

Banks retells stories of biblical women such as Sarah, Rebecca, Leah, and Dinah from their own points of view. The result is intimate, thoughtful, and more interested in their inner lives than in grand retelling.

Seeking independence, Jane retreats with her baby to a country cottage and tries to live on her own terms. Friends, money, and new emotional entanglements soon pull her back into the messier world beyond her door.

Banks turns the lives of the Brontë siblings into vivid historical fiction, from their intense childhood imaginings to their difficult adult years. It is a family story shaped by poverty, ambition, illness, and extraordinary writing.

Dakin is called toward a mountain no one can approach and sets out to break the spell that binds it. Her journey mixes fairy-tale danger, stubborn courage, and the thrill of an impossible quest.

Kate falls hard for working-class Mark, and class differences make the romance anything but simple. As family pressure, loyalty, and another possible love crowd in, the story becomes a sharp teenage drama about choosing who to trust.

This companion novel follows Charlotte Brontë through fame, loss, and the complicated years after her books changed her life. Banks brings the public success and private cost of that life into sharp focus.

Houdini is a clever, self-important hamster who treats every cage and room as an escape challenge. His comic adventures are funny from the start, but they also show that freedom can be scarier than it looks.

Writing to her three sons, Banks traces Jewish survival and identity across centuries. The book is personal in tone, but wide in scope, mixing history with a mother's attempt to explain inheritance and belonging.

For his birthday, Omri gets a plastic Indian, an old cupboard, and a key that makes toys come alive. What starts as a dream come true quickly becomes a lesson in friendship, secrecy, and responsibility.

Returning to Jerusalem to research the 1948 war, English novelist Ann Randall finds that history is not safely in the past. Interviews, old loyalties, and a consuming new attachment pull her into the living arguments beneath the story she wants to tell.

Tracey wants one last taste of freedom before settling for the sort of life her parents expect. A holiday plan that seems clever at first leaves her facing consequences she did not think through.

In this oral history of Israel's War of Independence, Banks lets firsthand voices carry the weight of the story. It is a personal, many-sided look at war, memory, and the making of a nation.

In bomb-scarred Belfast, young Maura meets an angel after an explosion rocks her world. Magic offers hope, but this story never forgets how fear, grief, and human mistakes can still shape the outcome.

Tiki breaks fairy law by helping a human woman have the baby she longs for. One generous act spirals into trouble for both fairies and humans in this warm, slightly prickly fantasy.

Omri brings Little Bear back and finds him badly wounded. Saving his friend means taking bigger risks, and the line between playing with magic and being responsible for a life grows much thinner.

Martha Fletcher thinks she is sleepwalking through life until Aaron Franks upends it. Their intense relationship, stretched between London and Israel, forces both of them to face the selves they keep dodging.

Sue McClusky escapes a failing marriage by taking her family to stay with old friends in the Netherlands. What looks like a change of scene becomes a close, unsettling study of two marriages under pressure.

Maggie Robertson flees a rigid Scottish upbringing to chase an acting career, but every choice seems to echo with guilt. It is a long, emotional novel about ambition, motherhood, and the cost of ignoring your own better instincts.

Roger's family arrives at a run-down French chateau for a holiday and finds locked rooms, family secrets, and a strange girl named Melusine. Gothic mystery and real danger twist together in unsettling ways.

A battle leaves Little Bear's people badly hurt, and Omri must find a way to help without exposing the cupboard's secret. Patrick's rash choices make the whole adventure even more dangerous.

King Midas learns the hard way that a golden touch is not much fun when it turns his daughter to metal too. Banks retells the old myth with humor, danger, and a quest to undo the damage.

These short stories follow a dancing, trickster hare who bounces through one strange situation after another. Kings, witches, giants, and even a vampire are no match for his cheerful mischief.

After moving to the country, Omri finds an old family account that explains more about the cupboard and its key. The discovery pulls him and Patrick back toward the magic and the risks that come with it.

This play blends Japanese theatrical style with myth and fable, including an Aboriginal creation story. It has a story-within-a-performance feel that suits readers interested in folklore and the stage.

This companion book peeks behind the making of the film version of The Indian in the Cupboard. It blends story recap with production details and set-side glimpses for curious young fans.

A Canadian teenager arrives in Israel only to be killed in a sudden attack, leaving one girl as the only witness. The aftermath exposes family fractures, grief, and the daily strain of the Israeli-Arab conflict.

Harry loves juicy things and fears the terrifying creatures of the no-top world, especially Hoo-Mins. When he ventures out with George, every wriggle and shadow becomes a funny, squirmy adventure.

Twin sisters are born with their good and bad qualities split neatly between them. One is impossibly sweet, the other terrifyingly wicked, and their household does not stand much chance of staying normal.

Judy and Harriet become friends just as each begins to question the beliefs that have shaped her life. Their bond pushes both women toward uncomfortable choices and unexpected reinvention.

Omri's father discovers the magic cupboard, and together they travel back about two hundred years to help Little Bear and his people at a desperate moment. The family secret becomes a rescue mission with real danger on every side.

Banks retells the life of Moses from the basket on the Nile to the flight from Egypt. It is fast, accessible historical storytelling with a strong sense of destiny and danger.

Nine-year-old Alice has to write about herself, but the official school version and the truth are not the same thing. Her funny, candid ortobiography untangles family secrets, loss, and the grandmother she misses.

When George disappears, Harry braves the dangers outside the nest-tunnel to find him. The rescue mission pushes this nervous little centipede into bigger trouble than ever.

This hard-to-track later title is listed inconsistently across bibliographies and editions. It is usually encountered by completists exploring Banks's rarer books for younger readers.

A Scottish laird orders a castle and a prison built for an enemy, but the person doomed to the dungeon is someone else entirely. This dark medieval tale builds slowly into tragedy and suspense.

Stacey's London life feels cramped and hopeless until a glamorous grandmother she barely knows sweeps her off to the Australian outback. The trip promises escape, but it also brings new questions about trust and home.

Two tiger cubs are torn from the jungle and taken to ancient Rome, where one becomes a pampered pet and the other a killer for the arena. Their fate becomes tied to a princess, a young keeper, and the brutal spectacle of empire.

Harry and George fall asleep in a crate and wake up far from home, facing a cold new world across the no-end puddle. To get back, they must survive strange landscapes and another nest of Hoo-Mins.

Polly flies from the Arctic to Africa to visit Jake and discovers a world utterly unlike her own. Their picture-book adventure turns distance, climate, and travel into something bright and inviting.

Lucy and Peter ignore their wedding-gift spice rack until the spices decide to leave and find cooks who will appreciate them. It is a playful picture book full of food, personality, and kitchen chaos.

Turk is a shameless rule-breaker, while Peony starts out as the model house cat. When both are left to fend for themselves, their ideas about being good, bad, and gloriously feline get tested fast.

In 1940, ten-year-old Lindy leaves wartime England for Saskatoon and has to make a new life far from everyone she knows. The story turns evacuation into something both frightening and full of discovery.

Red is a young dragon raised to fear humans until he meets a girl named Lou who changes everything. Their friendship turns a dragon adventure into a hopeful story about ending an old feud.