Richard Peck Books in Order

Gail Osburne's comfortable suburban life cracks when obscene notes and phone calls turn into real terror. Peck turns her search for justice into a tense, unsettling thriller about power and bias.

Peck's first novel follows a teenage girl trying to understand her family and her place in the world. It is a quiet, clear-eyed coming-of-age story about growing up before the answers are ready.

Best friends Flip and Brian find a dead man in the leaves near Dreamland Lake. The discovery shadows the summer that follows and changes how they see each other forever.

A classroom reader and writing text designed to help students explore literature and practice their own work. The focus is on close reading, clear thinking, and active writing.

A follow-up classroom anthology and writing text that pairs reading selections with exercises meant to build stronger, more confident writers. It is practical, direct, and built for student use.

A tense young adult suspense novel about family trouble and danger closing in fast. Peck keeps the pressure on as his characters move through fear, secrets, and a hard push toward independence.

A smart teen gets a close look at image, competition, and the strange expectations wrapped around girlhood. Peck uses a glossy contest world to show how quickly charm can turn into pressure.

An early Peck novel about city life, youth, and the gap between public images and private lives. You can already see his sharp eye for place and the pressures people put on one another.

When Alexander sees strange lights and hears odd sounds in the barn, he thinks Blossom Culp is teasing him again. Then a real girl ghost appears with a warning that turns the haunting into a race against danger.

Bluff City's loudest outsider discovers that her fake second sight is becoming real. Blossom's visions carry her toward the Titanic and an eerie adventure bigger than any rumor.

Toby dreads the noises in his grandmother's big old house until one summer night he decides to face the monster himself. It is a spooky little story about fear, courage, and what darkness does to the imagination.

After their mother's death, seventeen-year-old Jim tries to take charge of his younger brother's life. Then their absent father reappears and offers a summer in Florida, forcing Jim to rethink anger, loyalty, and growing up.

A sharp, satirical look at teenage life inside the kingdom of the mall, where status, desire, and self-invention all go on display. Peck treats the setting like its own strange little town.

Mary Cooke enters service at Whitwell Hall in 1911 and is quickly renamed Miranda by her forceful young mistress, Amanda. Their dangerous bond carries them toward the Titanic and a struggle over love, class, and identity.

After his girlfriend dies suddenly, Matt drifts through grief, anger, and the strange routines of school and suburbia. His way back begins when he starts seeing the living world more clearly.

A contemporary novel about ambition, reinvention, and the pull of the city. Peck follows characters trying to keep up with New York while figuring out who they are when the pace finally catches them.

Blossom's second sight pushes her beyond ordinary ghost stories and toward the future itself. What she sees may help her friends, if she can make sense of it in time.

Five generations of women fight their way through poverty, upheaval, and family history. Peck turns their linked lives into a sweeping story about endurance, inheritance, and the cost of survival.

Buck looks back on his friendship with Kate and Trav in a small Midwestern town. Funny and tender at first, the story turns into a hard, honest look at grief and a teen suicide.

Blossom Culp's strange gifts lead her into one of her darkest mysteries yet. As Bluff City brushes against the unseen again, Alexander has to help before Blossom is lost to it.

New girl Chelsea is thrilled when the most admired girl in school lets her into the inner circle. The closer she gets to Ashley's world, the more she sees how popularity can twist loyalty and judgment.

This hands-on guide invites young writers to build their own scary story with Peck as a coach. It breaks horror writing into usable steps without draining away the fun.

Drew expects a normal summer before his grandmother sweeps him and his sister onto a Baltic cruise. The trip is funny and glamorous on the surface, but it carries a deeper family reckoning.

Chad and his siblings rent an old Manhattan townhouse for the summer and start hearing voices after dark. Soon the house is pulling them toward 1888 and a snowbound mystery that needs solving.

Peck tells the story of growing up in Decatur, teaching, and becoming a writer. It is a straightforward, personal look at how his life fed the books he later wrote for young readers.

Jessica has built her whole view of her family around a glamorous father and a resented mother. As that picture cracks, she has to face the truth about both parents and herself.

When a show-business family is forced out of Los Angeles and back to small-town Hickory Fork, culture shock hits hard. Bambi decides the local bully gang has met the wrong family.

Peck reflects on schools, popular culture, and the kinds of stories young people actually need. The essays mix writing advice with sharp observations about teaching and growing up in modern America.

Sixth-grader Josh Lewis and his brainy friend Aaron use a school computer to slip through time and uncover old secrets. The adventure is wild fun, but it may also change Josh's life at home.

Todd's family moves to an upscale suburb hoping for safety and calm. Instead he finds book challenges, religious pressure, and trouble close to home, especially when his little sister falls under a babysitter's sway.

Josh and Aaron think a wish-granting computer sounds like a dream come true. Then the glitches multiply, a poodle seems to join in, and a sinister watcher starts tracking them online.

Each summer, Joey and Mary Alice leave Chicago for a week with Grandma Dowdel in rural Illinois. Those visits become a string of wild, funny adventures with one of Peck's great characters.

Three childhood friends, now scattered by work, marriage, and distance, reunite for a long-delayed trip to London. The journey gives them room to face old hurts, new chances, and the lives they still want.

When her mother can no longer care for her, Molly goes to live with a great-aunt in a small town. Feeling like a stray herself, she slowly discovers that other lonely people there are looking for a place to belong.

In 1937, Mary Alice is sent from Chicago to live with Grandma Dowdel for a year. What follows is a funny, tender run of schemes, neighbors, and small-town lessons during the Depression.

Rosie Beckett and her family leave rural Illinois for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. What starts as a grand outing becomes a funny, eye-opening week full of wonders, mishaps, and change.

Part memoir, part craft book, this collection gathers Peck's thoughts on reading, teaching, and writing for the young. It is a lively look at how books help readers make a life of their own.

As the Civil War begins, two mysterious women step off a steamboat into Grand Tower, Illinois. Their arrival unsettles the Pruitt family and pulls them into questions of identity, loyalty, and war.

This collection brings together Peck's short stories, from historical pieces to ghost tales to contemporary fiction. He adds notes on how some stories were written, making it fun for readers and writers alike.

Russell thinks the death of his teacher means school is over for good. Instead, in 1904 Indiana, he lands in an even stranger year when his sister takes over the classroom.

In 1914 Indiana, Peewee and her car-mad brother Jake are trying to keep the family garage alive as the motor age arrives. A librarian named Irene changes their fortunes in ways nobody expects.

Davy Bowman worships his father and older brother as World War II reaches their Illinois home front. When his brother flies B-17s overseas, Davy learns how fear, love, and courage live under one roof.

In 1958, a Methodist minister's family moves in next door to formidable Grandma Dowdel. Over one unforgettable year, the last house in town turns into a place of mischief, kindness, and surprises.

Carrie wants nothing more than a place with the popular crowd. When a fatal crash leaves three queen bees dead but not gone, she gets pulled into a chilling tangle of friendship, guilt, and ghostly revenge.

Helena and her mouse siblings leave the safety of home and become stowaways on a grand ocean voyage. Among human passengers, hidden dangers, and royal secrets, Helena has to keep her family together.

In Queen Victoria's Royal Mews, an orphaned mouse with a question-mark tail goes searching for his real name and family. His quest carries him from schoolyard bullies to Buckingham Palace itself.

Archer Magill spends grade school collecting role models, from his grandfather to a beloved teacher. As weddings, middle school, and big family changes arrive, he starts figuring out what kind of man he wants to be.

Peck shares practical advice on writing for young readers, from finding a story to shaping character, voice, and plot. It feels like a compact workshop with a novelist who knew both the classroom and the page.