Pink & Green Books in Order

The Pink & Green books center on Lucy Desberg, a smart, practical girl with a knack for makeup, problem-solving, and spotting what people need before they say it out loud. At first glance the series looks like it might be all about beauty products and makeovers, but that is only part of the picture. The real heart of these books is Lucy’s family and the future of their struggling pharmacy.

Lucy is the kind of kid who wants to help, then immediately starts making a plan.

In My Life in Pink & Green, she discovers that a small beauty emergency can turn into a real skill. Before long, Lucy is giving makeover advice for dances and parties while also worrying about the family business. The pharmacy is not just a store. It is a gathering place with history, habits, and generations wrapped into it. Lucy dreams up a way to reinvent it as an eco-spa, which gives the series one of its main pleasures, watching a middle schooler think creatively about grown-up problems without turning into an unbelievable superhero.

The setting matters a lot here. Shelves, products, customers, treatment ideas, and the day-to-day life of the store give the books their texture. Greenwald uses that small-business backdrop to tell a bigger story about change. Lucy wants to save something old, but she also understands that saving it may mean reimagining it. That mix of loyalty and reinvention gives the series its pink-and-green balance, style on one side, practicality on the other.

In My Summer of Pink & Green and Pink & Green Is the New Black, the problems shift from rescue mode to real life after the big idea. A new spa means new personalities, new expectations, and fresh family strain. Lucy has to deal with her older sister being home, irritating newcomers, school events, and later, boyfriend trouble and eighth grade pressure. Her makeup skills and common sense still matter, but the books gradually ask bigger questions about embarrassment, honesty, and the kind of person Lucy wants to be as she gets older.

These books are warm, funny, and very readable, but they are not flimsy. They care about money worries, family tension, and the awkward truth that solving one problem often uncovers three more. Lucy can be confident in one moment and completely unsure in the next, which makes her feel believable.

If you want middle grade fiction with a strong main character, a family business at the center, and lots of friendship and family drama without losing its light touch, Pink & Green is an easy series to sink into. It is thoughtful about growing up, and it never forgets to be fun.