MT Anderson Books in Order

Chris only wants an ordinary teenage life, but he seems to be turning into a vampire. Funny, sad, and genuinely creepy, the novel mixes horror with adolescent panic and a desperate search for help.

After his girlfriend leaves him for another guy, Anthony gets a job at a burger joint to plot revenge. What follows is a sharp, embarrassing, very teenage comedy about pride, heartbreak, and bad decisions.

This lively picture-book biography follows Handel from stubborn musical child to celebrated composer. It captures his humor, excess, setbacks, and the hard road that led to Messiah.

In a future where the internet streams straight into the brain, Titus meets Violet, who dares to resist the system. Their love story becomes a bleak, funny, and frightening look at advertising, language, and loss.

A playful picture-book biography of Erik Satie, the oddball French composer who imagined music unlike anything his era expected. Paris art circles, surreal humor, and creative stubbornness give the story its spark.

Edited by Megan McCafferty, this anthology collects original stories about the tumultuous, memorable year of being sixteen. Its writers explore milestones such as first kisses, new independence, and teenage angst, and McCafferty contributes a Jessica Darling prequel featuring Hope.

When Brian and Gregory visit a strange Vermont mansion, they discover a board game that reaches far beyond the attic. Soon they are dodging riddles, hidden kingdoms, and dangerous creatures in a world that will not stay on the board.

A boy happily lives in solitude at the world's edge until a flashy businessman turns his home into a tourist attraction. The story is playful on the surface, but quietly pointed about noise, crowds, and contentment.

Based on a real 1817 mystery, this picture book follows the panic and fascination after a giant sea serpent is seen off Gloucester. It reads like a sea ballad, eerie, rhythmic, and fun to read aloud.

Lily Gefelty learns her father's boss plans to conquer the world with laser-eyed whales on stilts. Luckily, her best friends Jasper Dash and Katie Mulligan are ready for a gloriously ridiculous fight.

A relaxing trip to a mountain lodge turns into a kidnapping case packed with fake clues, rival child heroes, and weird suspects. Lily, Jasper, and Katie are the only ones odd enough to solve it.

Raised in luxury by scholars in Revolutionary Boston, Octavian slowly uncovers the brutal experiment shaping his life. What begins as an eerie coming-of-age story turns into a sharp, unsettling reckoning with slavery, science, and power.

Jasper, Lily, and Katie journey into a misty, forbidden Delaware to untangle a terrible mystery. Lost cities, monks, gangsters, dinosaurs, and the Curse of the Jaguar make this one especially unhinged.

Escaping a death sentence, Octavian and Dr. Trefusis flee into British occupied Boston as the Revolution explodes around them. War, shifting loyalties, and promises of freedom force Octavian to decide whom he can trust.

Trapped in war torn Delaware, Lily, Jasper, and Katie race for the New Jersey border while spies and secret police close in. The result is a frantic, funny chase through a fantasy state run on paranoia.

Back in the Vermont mountains, Brian and Gregory find neighborhoods being overtaken by something ancient and hostile. Missing people, eerie houses, and a threat buried beneath suburbia turn the sequel darker and bigger.

Brian and Gregory travel into New Norumbega, a bizarre realm of blood, machinery, and political intrigue. Hoping to save Earth, they instead land in a murder mystery and a brewing rebellion.

When Lily's mother returns from a haunted vacation acting like a different person, Lily fears something undead came home with her. Ghosts, ghouls, and comic horror pile up fast in this spooky series entry.

With New Norumbega collapsing and invaders closing in, Brian, Gregory, and Gwynyfer hunt for a hidden chamber that may stop the chaos. It is the series finale, strange, urgent, and full of high stakes.

Jasper heads into outer space to search for the father he has never known. The finale turns the series toward pulpy sci-fi, while keeping its usual mix of absurd danger, friendship, and heart.

Anderson traces Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad in a gripping work of narrative nonfiction. It is a war story, a portrait of an artist under pressure, and a powerful book about what music can do.

After aliens colonize Earth's economy, teen artist Adam and his girlfriend turn their romance into a paid performance for off-world viewers. The satire is funny and strange, but it cuts hard on class, art, and survival.

This graphic retelling of the Arthurian legend follows Sir Yvain from glory seeking knight to a man forced to face the damage he has done. Battles, magic, and romance sit beside a sharper look at love and responsibility.

Stranded in the rift, Molly and the other survivors must cross a deep basin on makeshift boats. The creatures around them are dangerous enough, but the growing fractures inside the group may be worse.

Elfin spy Brangwain Spurge is sent into goblin territory with a peace offering and a secret mission. His meetings with the goblin archivist Werfel spiral into misunderstandings, danger, and a smart, darkly funny argument about history.

In the legendary city of Ys, sisters Rozenn and Dahut grow apart after their mother's death. This graphic retelling turns Breton myth into a lush story of magic, power, jealousy, and looming disaster.