Richard Roberts Books in Order

Fang, a nightmare shaped like a black dog, knows how to hunt dreams but struggles with love and growing up. His friend's scheme to intensify nightmares draws him into conflict that threatens the balance of their supernatural world.

In a world where supposedly bad children become animals, five interlinked stories follow those living with transformation and perpetual youth. Their experiences question punishment, goodness, and love while gradually revealing the story of a girl unable to speak for herself.

Twelve-year-old Mary Stuart becomes trapped in a deadly version of Little Red Riding Hood. Refusing both the Wolf's temptations and a talking rat's instructions, she battles through myths and fairy tales determined to escape on her own terms.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Two girls arrive in an enchanted kingdom of living puppets with conflicting desires for their refuge. Rag doll Heartfelt tries to help uncertain Sandy create and heal while confronting Charity’s influence and questioning what the dolls themselves want.

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.

Fourteen-year-old Vanity Rose seeks money and adventure in the corrupt future city of West Angel. Joining thieves and mercenaries draws her beyond nights spent in gravity shoes into a dangerous world of killer robots, hostile programs, and cyborg vampires.

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.

Rachel escapes Earth aboard an interplanetary bus and discovers a solar system untouched by the mathematics shaping her home. Her artistic talents make her a gifted spaceship repairer, but concealing her origins encourages dangerous assumptions about her identity.

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.

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.

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.

Thirteen-year-old bioengineering prodigy Artifact inherits her uncle’s business and discovers a demonic cousin in Goblita. Her ambitious creations, a burglary, and classmates’ dungeon adventures soon cause disasters that threaten to overwhelm both her studies and the city.

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.

Thirteen-year-old Tick steals the boat intended for her heroic brother and becomes stranded on his world-saving quest. With a useless magic sword and unwilling companions, she must find another way to face the World Breaker and challenge the prophecy.