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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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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 FooLeven Thumps and the Whispered SecretLeven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want
If you want dragons and darker adventure: PillageChokeAmbush
If you want funny illustrated mash-ups: WonkensteinPotterwookieePinocula
If you want creepy school mystery: Witherwood Reform SchoolLost & Found
If you want modern magic and mystery: Wizard for HireApprentice NeededMagic 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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