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Please Don't Tell My Parents Books in Order

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Read Richard Roberts's Please Don't Tell My Parents books in order, with a guide to the superhero adventures and summaries to help you choose where to begin.

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Please Don't Tell My Parents books in publication order

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11 books

1

Penelope Akk wants to follow her superhero parents, but a confrontation gets her and her friends branded villains. Armed with unpredictable mad-science inventions, Penny tries to clear their names while discovering she excels at her accidental new role.

2

Penny Akk builds a spaceship and takes her friends to Jupiter's moons instead of attending school. They discover hidden human colonies and alien warfare, leaving their mad science to fill the gap where rescuing heroes ought to be.

3

Penny's latest attempt at heroism encourages classmates to reveal their powers, transforming middle school into a much stranger place. Changing friendships, an eager admirer, and troubled superpowered acquaintances compete with her own adventures and first steps into dating.

4

Penny Akk uses summer break to plan an escape from her reputation as Bad Penny. Unresolved problems, unpredictable friends, and visitors from Jupiter stand in her way as her parents move closer to discovering her secret.

5

After surviving heroes, villains, aliens, and countless other challenges, Penny Akk faces an opponent tied to her own abilities. Another Penny has stolen her superpower, making the next battle a confrontation with a version of herself.

6

In 1980, a murderous scientist threatens the playful rivalry between superheroes and villains. Irene and Team Tiny, aided by a remarkably intelligent spider, try to restore the fun while protecting friends whose strange powers already make life complicated.

7

Magenta's powers seem unsuited to superhero combat, and fighting a villain ends in failure. Instead, she takes a job working for that villain, juggling magical errands and secret identities while heroes and her own friends try to intervene.

8

Fifteen-year-old Avery Special moves to Los Angeles as the world's only living necromancer, attracting unwelcome supernatural attention. New friends with eerie powers and helpful ghostly ancestors offer support, while romantic complications add to her increasingly crowded life.

9

Mirabelle’s glass body makes everyday movement dangerous, but a mysterious artifact offers the power to become a monster. As heroes and villains fight for its scattered pieces, she must gather them without losing either her life or her sense of right.

10

Teenage necromancer Avery Special awakens a cyborg and sets out to use her powers to help others. Each intervention creates new trouble, straining her relationships while a wandering ghost and a mad scientist’s world-threatening plans demand difficult choices.

11

Teenager Stella Deetz persuades a mad scientist to give her superpowers, hoping they will improve her social standing. Instead, she becomes a fashionable monster who feeds on fear, with the added complication that she forgot to establish a secret identity.

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