Obert Skye Books in Order
Explore Obert Skye books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and where to start if you want fantasy, humor, dragons, or weird magic.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
27 books
Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
by Obert Skye
2005
Leven Thumps lives a miserable life in Oklahoma until he learns about Foo, a realm tied to dreams and hope. To save it, he must trust strange new allies and step through a gateway that changes everything.
Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret
by Obert Skye
2006
Leven, Winter, and Clover cross chaotic Foo to restore Geth and keep hope alive. Their mission grows more dangerous when Leven uncovers a hidden secret that could destroy far more than their journey.
Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want
by Obert Skye
2007
War between Foo and Reality is drawing closer, and Leven is still chasing a deadly secret. To stand against the danger ahead, he must journey to Lith and seek help from the mysterious Want.
Professor Winsnicker's Book of Proper Etiquette for Well-Mannered Sycophants
by Obert Skye
2007
This playful companion to the Leven Thumps world mixes sycophant rules with Clover Ernest's school journal. It offers a funny, revealing look at Clover's early life and the odd manners of Foo.
Leven Thumps and the Wrath of Ezra
by Obert Skye
2008
The true evil beneath Foo is rising, and Leven must master new power before it is too late. Meanwhile, Clover battles to protect the gateway, and Ezra brings fresh chaos on the Reality side.
Pillage
by Obert Skye
2008
After his mother's death, Beck Phillips is sent to live with an eccentric uncle in Kingsplot. There he uncovers a family curse, a strange power over plants, and dragon secrets that threaten to tear everything apart.
Leven Thumps and the Ruins of Alder
by Obert Skye
2009
As all of Foo rushes toward collapse, Leven heads the other way, to Alder, where his final test awaits. With Clover beside him, he must save the power of dreams before it disappears for good.
Choke
by Obert Skye
2010
Beck cannot resist the last dragon egg, even after the devastation dragons have already caused. As he grows attached to what hatches, he has to decide whether he can break his family's curse or feed it.
Geth and the Return of the Lithens
by Obert Skye
2011
With Foo restored, Geth and Clover go looking for a fresh adventure and cross into a land where dreams have been trapped. What starts as curiosity becomes a fight against tyranny, lost history, and fear itself.
Wonkenstein
by Obert Skye
2011
Rob Burnside would rather avoid books, until a strange creature steps out of his closet, part Willy Wonka, part Frankenstein. Keeping track of Wonkenstein turns Rob's ordinary life into a messy, funny disaster.
Ambush
by Obert Skye
2012
Kingsplot is sliding toward another dragon disaster, and Beck is hiding dangerous secrets from the people closest to him. To stop the chaos, he has to face the worst parts of his inheritance at last.
Geth and the Deception of Dreams
by Obert Skye
2012
After finding Zale and escaping Pencilbottom Castle, Geth and Clover are still trapped in Payt's brutal campaign. To save the Lithens and the dreams imprisoned in Zendor, they have to keep moving through chaos, danger, and betrayal.
Potterwookiee
by Obert Skye
2012
Rob's latest closet visitor is a pint-sized mix of Harry Potter and Chewbacca. Between odd magic, extra chaos, and everyday school problems, Rob has to figure out how to handle Hairy before everything gets even stranger.
Pinocula
by Obert Skye
2013
Just when Rob's life seems to be settling down, a new closet creature appears, part Pinocchio, part Dracula. Pinocula lies, jokes, and stirs up trouble so fast that Rob can barely keep up.
Katfish
by Obert Skye
2014
Rob faces another round of closet chaos as a fierce new creature turns school and home into a goofy survival test. Between embarrassment, rivalry, and nonstop mayhem, he has to find a way to stay afloat.
The Lord of the Hat
by Obert Skye
2015
Rob thinks his closet is finally under control, until a rhyming creature that is part Gollum and part Cat in the Hat slips out unnoticed. A family trip to Colorado turns into a weird, fast-moving mess.
Witherwood Reform School
by Obert Skye
2015
After a disastrous clash with their awful governess, Tobias and Charlotte are abandoned at a creepy reform school. Inside Witherwood they find monsters, locked rooms, and adults who can control minds.
Batneezer
by Obert Skye
2016
For the first time, Rob knows exactly when his closet will open, but he is not ready for a visitor who is part Ebenezer Scrooge and part Batman. With his school in trouble, Rob may need a hero, or several.
Lost & Found
by Obert Skye
2016
Still trapped inside Witherwood, Tobias and Charlotte search for a way out while the school grows even more unstable. Revolting creatures, missing friends, and dangerous secrets turn escape into a desperate gamble.
Mutant Bunny Island
by Obert Skye
2017
When Perry Owens gets a strange plea for help from Uncle Zeke, he heads to Bunny Island convinced something terrible has happened. What he finds is a missing-uncle mystery, suspicious rabbits, and a very weird island.
A Lame New World
by Obert Skye
2018
At dystopian Waddle Jr. High, geeky Tip and his friends are tired of being bullied and ignored. They form LAME, the League of Average Mediocre Entities, and set out to become the school's most unlikely heroes.
Bad Hare Day
by Obert Skye
2018
Perry returns to Bunny Island for Carrot Con, but freak microstorms and fresh trouble hit almost immediately. When Uncle Zeke is blamed for a crime he did not commit, Perry and his friends have to clear his name.
Wizard for Hire
by Obert Skye
2018
Ozzy's scientist parents have been kidnapped after creating a mind-control formula, and normal help feels impossible. A classified ad leads him to Rin, a self-proclaimed wizard who may be exactly what Ozzy needs.
Apprentice Needed
by Obert Skye
2019
Ozzy's search continues after Rin disappears and a mysterious package sends Ozzy, Sigi, and Clark toward a new trail. Strange behavior, missing answers, and a trip east make the mystery bigger than ever.
Bigger, Badder, Nerdier
by Obert Skye
2019
Tip and the rest of LAME are back, now with mediocre superpowers and a fresh set of school disasters. A rival group, a bigger plot, and Darth Susan's latest scheme push the geeks into another messy showdown.
Buns of Steel
by Obert Skye
2019
Perry lands on Bunny Island expecting trouble and gets more than he bargained for when hostile robot rabbits appear. To save the island, he has to convince others the danger is real before it is too late.
Magic Required
by Obert Skye
2020
Ozzy and Sigi are in deeper danger after the mind-control serum changes the game completely. With Ray still hunting them and Rin still raising questions, Ozzy has to learn what is real, and what magic might cost.
Where should I start?
If you want dream-world fantasy: Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo → Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret → Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want
If you want dragons and darker adventure: Pillage → Choke → Ambush
If you want funny illustrated mash-ups: Wonkenstein → Potterwookiee → Pinocula
If you want creepy school mystery: Witherwood Reform School → Lost & Found
If you want modern magic and mystery: Wizard for Hire → Apprentice Needed → Magic Required
Author bio
Obert Skye writes the kind of books that feel like they were built by someone who enjoys secret doors, bad plans, strange creatures, and kids who talk back when life gets absurd. Before his name started showing up on middle grade fantasy shelves, he had already spent years writing humorous fiction. When he moved into children's books, he brought the same dry wit with him, then mixed in more magic, more danger, and a lot more imagination.
He has never been especially interested in giving readers a tidy, ordinary biography.
In interviews and author notes, Skye often turns basic life details into running jokes, which fits the tone of his fiction. What does come through clearly is his love of reading and the way books changed him. He has talked about being a reluctant reader as a kid until a librarian put Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in his hands. He also loved the Oz books, and those influences show up all over his work, in the mix of whimsy, menace, odd rules, and everyday kids dropped into impossible situations.
He has also said that time on Scotland's Isle of Skye helped inspire the pen name Obert Skye. The name became attached to his children's fantasy career in a big way with Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo in 2005. That series introduced readers to Foo, a dream-linked realm full of danger, nonsense, hope, and memorable side characters, and it quickly became the work many readers still connect with him first.
That was the door-opener.
From there, Skye built a bibliography that moves easily between epic quests and heavily illustrated comedy. Pillage takes a grieving teenager, an unsettling family history, and a dragon curse, then turns them into a darker fantasy adventure. Wonkenstein shows off his sillier side, following a boy whose closet starts producing bizarre literary mash-ups. Witherwood Reform School leans into creepy boarding-school mystery, while Wizard for Hire plays a clever game with modern-day magic, science, and the question of whether a wizard has to prove anything to be real.
Readers usually come to Skye for the oddball premises, but they stay for the voice. His books are funny without being soft, and strange without losing their emotional center. His heroes are often kids who feel overlooked, stuck, underestimated, or just plain confused. They are rarely polished. They make mistakes. They get scared. Then they keep moving anyway.
Imagination matters in his books, and not in a decorative way. In Leven Thumps, dreams help hold the world together. In Wizard for Hire, wonder keeps rubbing up against logic until the reader has to decide what counts as magic in the first place. Even in the broadest comedies, Skye keeps returning to the idea that stories can change how a person sees the world, and maybe how they survive it.
He has spent a lot of time talking with young readers about that idea. During a nationwide imagination-themed school tour, he visited hundreds of schools and made creativity part of the conversation, not just the sales pitch. That feels true to the books themselves. Even when they get dark, they usually hand kids a flashlight.
These days, Skye still keeps a little mystery around his own life. That seems intentional. He is much easier to know through the stories than through a list of facts, and maybe that is the point. What the books make clear is simple enough: he likes wordplay, dangerous fantasy, ridiculous humor, loyal friendships, and the stubborn belief that the impossible may be closer than it looks.
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