Susan Beth Pfeffer Books in Order

Pfeffer's debut follows Morgan through the everyday confusions of adolescence, identity, and friendship. Even here, her interest in how young people think and speak is easy to see.

Bright hopes and brief flashes of happiness run up against the harder parts of growing older. Pfeffer gives the story a wistful tone without letting it drift away from real feeling.

Beauty and approval come with strings attached in this pointed story about how girls are seen and judged. Pfeffer uses a familiar setup to ask what appearance is really worth.

This young adult novel looks hard at the comfort of easy promises and the hurt that remains when words are not enough. It is intimate, serious, and emotionally sharp.

Marly brings a tough, imaginative streak to everyday kid problems. The result is a lively story about self-invention, stubbornness, and learning how far bravado can take you.

An early YA story about the gap between getting by and actually feeling secure. Pfeffer keeps the focus on emotional truth rather than tidy resolutions.

When her family can't afford the bike she wants, Janie starts a neighborhood odd-jobs agency and hires her friends. The business is exciting, but success threatens the friendship that started it.

Evelina lives up to her name by turning ordinary moments upside down. It's a playful picture book built around a child whose bad behavior is both exasperating and funny.

After David's death, the people who knew him are left with grief, questions, and a note that does not explain enough. Pfeffer turns the mystery inward, toward memory and blame.

A secret shared in confidence becomes harder and harder to carry. This short novel is about friendship, trust, and the damage a private truth can do.

Putting Peter and Leigh in the spotlight means excitement, friction, and the problem of sharing attention. The story keeps its drama rooted in performance, personality, and family feeling.

A girl terrified of public speaking has to face the moment when staying silent is no longer an option. It's funny, relatable, and kinder about fear than the title first suggests.

An ethical problem refuses to stay abstract when it lands in one young person's daily life. The novel asks what standing up for your beliefs actually costs.

Melodie changes the balance of the lives around her from the moment she arrives. This is a friendship story about first impressions, envy, and the slow work of understanding someone new.

Dana has to find a steadier kind of bravery than she knew she had. It's a compact story about fear, self-respect, and doing the hard thing anyway.

Janie's kid-run odd-jobs business is back, and success brings new headaches along with the money. Work, friendship, and responsibility refuse to stay neatly separated.

This sharp story looks at appearances, performance, and the pressure to fit a part someone else has written for you. Underneath the title is a strong interest in who gets treated like decoration.

A game that should be silly turns personal fast when secrets and embarrassment enter the room. Pfeffer keeps the tension grounded in the social stakes kids know all too well.

A break in production sends the young stars away from the set, but their lives stay just as tangled. Distance changes the setting, not the emotional mess.

Six teenagers audition for a brand-new television drama, each hoping it will be the break that changes everything. The series starts with big dreams, nerves, and the first taste of show business.

Success on Hard Time High brings more attention, more temptation, and more pressure to hold onto love and ambition at the same time. Everyone wants something, and not everyone can keep it.

Revenge feels satisfying in theory, but real payback is rarely neat. This story looks at hurt feelings, image, and the fallout that comes when someone decides to strike back.

Rumors of major changes on the show throw the teen actors into panic and competition. In this final stretch of the series, ambition and insecurity are harder to hide than ever.

As Hard Time High moves into a new season, romance becomes just one more pressure on an already stressed young cast. Offscreen feelings prove as tricky as anything in the script.

A promise between friends seems solid until loyalty starts colliding with real life. Pfeffer uses the setup to dig into trust, disappointment, and the rules young people make for themselves.

After Michael disappears, the family he leaves behind begins to come apart in slow motion. His sister struggles to carry grief, anger, and hope through a year that changes everyone.

Evvie's year at sixteen opens the Sebastian series with family expectations, emotional confusion, and the feeling that one bad choice could change everything. It's a close-up portrait of teen life inside a big family.

A glamorous summer opportunity pulls a teen into makeovers, photo shoots, and the glossy world of Image. What starts as a dream soon exposes rivalry, insecurity, and the cost of looking perfect.

A strange VCR lets children slip back into the past and tamper with events they want to fix. The fun premise quickly turns into a question of whether changing yesterday is worth the risk.

The young cast of Hard Time High starts life on set and learns fame is less simple than it looked from the outside. School, money, family, and first love all crowd into the spotlight.

Thea's story brings its own mix of pride, vulnerability, and teenage longing. Like the rest of the series, it ties private feelings to the larger pull of family history.

Growing older doesn't happen all at once, and this middle-grade novel catches that uneasy in-between stage well. Friends shift, family irritates, and thirteen starts to feel very close.

One Sebastian sister faces the sharp mix of romance, family expectation, and self-doubt that comes with being sixteen. The book treats everyday emotional stakes as seriously as any big crisis.

Laurie's letters to her father turn into a record of hurt, honesty, and change. The novel uses a direct, intimate voice to show how hard it can be to keep loving someone who lets you down.

A leap toward the future promises excitement, but it also unsettles everything familiar. Pfeffer uses the setup to explore change, identity, and what we hope tomorrow might fix.

Based on the television series, this school story follows bright students balancing pressure, jokes, crushes, and classroom chaos. It's a quick snapshot of gifted teens trying to be regular kids too.

Sybil's turn in the spotlight brings another angle on the Sebastian family, where love and pressure often arrive together. At sixteen, every choice feels both thrilling and permanent.

Darcy's quiet cousin April and her newly divorced mother move into the apartment upstairs, changing the whole rhythm of home. New closeness brings awkwardness, worry, and the beginnings of real friendship.

Darcy discovers that friendship gets tricky when cousins, best friends, and jealousy all pull at once. The story stays close to ordinary kid feelings and the small dramas that make them feel huge.

The family legend begins here, with Meg Winslow Sebastian looking back on the year she fell in love and her future started to take shape. It's the emotional anchor of the Sebastian books.

This darker novel follows family ties strained by fear, secrets, and damage that runs deep. Pfeffer leans into emotional pressure rather than easy answers.

Another twin-centered family story, this book plays with mix-ups, small shocks, and the sweetness underneath the trouble. It's a warm, lively read for younger children.

Thrown into a blended family, a teenager has to sort out anger, loyalty, and the uneasy feeling of living with people who are suddenly supposed to be hers. It's intimate, tense, and very human.

Twin mischief turns everyday family life into comic chaos in this picture book. It's built around the fun and frustration of siblings who always seem to move as a pair.

Imagination offers comfort, but real life keeps demanding harder choices in this gentle middle-grade novel. Pfeffer balances playfulness with the emotional weight of growing up.

A run of success with riddles and wordplay turns exciting, then complicated. This quick middle-grade story mixes competition, pride, and the trouble that comes when winning starts to matter too much.

A mysterious ring makes honesty much harder to avoid, and the results are both funny and messy. It's a small-stakes story about secrets, consequences, and what truth can upset.

Sara Kate tackles ordinary childhood trouble with superhero-sized determination. The result is a lively early chapter book about imagination, confidence, and standing up for yourself.

A frightening disappearance pushes this young adult thriller into questions of trust, fear, and survival. Pfeffer keeps the tension personal, focusing on how danger reshapes a family.

After her last relative dies, eleven-year-old Emily is sent to the Austen Home for Orphaned Girls. She dreams of music, dignity, and one day finding the little sister she lost.

Sara Kate discovers that superpowers are very handy when a school bully needs to be stopped. It's a brisk, funny chapter book that keeps its superhero fun close to everyday kid problems.

Taryn is blamed for a mean pizza prank on a teacher just as trouble is brewing at home. Clearing her name means untangling school drama, family fear, and her own rush to judgment.

When a wish can actually come true, it doesn't feel nearly as simple as it sounds. This light middle-grade story turns a fantasy into a funny, thoughtful problem.

Amy longs to have her picture taken at a new photography studio, even though the cost is beyond her family's reach. Her clever plan leads to a sweeter surprise than the one she expected.

Shy Beth gets the trip of her life when she goes to pre-Civil War New York with Marmee and Father. Away from home, she finds wonder, courage, and a new sense of her own voice.

When a wealthy aunt offers to adopt one of the March girls, Jo decides she should be the one to go. Her brave, impulsive plan shows both her fierceness and how much family matters to her.

Emily knows the truth about her friend Gracie's death, but the town would rather protect powerful girls than hear her out. Fighting to be believed puts her future at risk.

Meg is thrilled by an invitation to a grand picnic, even though Jo is left out. Her choice between loyalty and excitement becomes an unforgettable lesson in manners and conscience.

Amy wants art lessons badly enough to chase the friendship of richer girls. When ambition and kindness pull in opposite directions, she has to decide what sort of friend she means to be.

Gentle Beth tries to help Sean O'Neill, a hungry Irish immigrant boy caring for his struggling family. Her kindness leads her into trouble, and into hard questions about theft, pride, and real generosity.

At Christmas, each March sister reflects on her place in the family and what growing up might ask of her. These linked stories keep the focus on warmth, longing, and small moral choices.

Joey loves his stepfather, but he can't stop wondering about the biological father who vanished from his life. A Civil War trip and a painful search force him to rethink what family really means.

Restless Jo can hardly understand quiet, housebound Pauline Wheeler, who is blind and guarded. A frightening day outdoors forces both girls to see each other differently.

Asked to sing at a wedding, Meg expects a perfect day and instead collides with prickly Julia Thorpe. Their uneasy start grows into a story about jealousy, family, and unexpected friendship.

Amy enjoys the attention of a wealthy boy until his expensive present forces her to be honest about what she really wants. It's a small, pointed story about vanity, status, and growing up.

Jo treasures the journal she's given for her private thoughts, until her sisters read what she wrote. A small gift turns into a sharp lesson about anger, trust, and family closeness.

Meg receives a beautiful length of lace meant for her future wedding day, and suddenly even home doesn't feel safe from mishap. The story turns a treasured object into a test of patience and sisterhood.

Each March sister tries to make her tenth birthday unfold exactly her own way. These four linked stories show how family love often arrives with disappointment, compromise, and unexpected joy.

This nonfiction book looks at the real people behind famous literary characters, from Christopher Robin to Alice. It's a quick, engaging guide to the lives that inspired beloved stories.

Four eerie stories send Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March into brushes with the supernatural. It's a gentler, spooky Portraits of Little Women collection built around each sister's personality.

In this historical coming-of-age story, a young girl is pulled into the glitter and jealousy of silent-era moviemaking after personal loss changes her future. Fame looks exciting, but it comes with sharp edges.

When an asteroid knocks the moon closer to Earth, sixteen-year-old Miranda watches tides, weather, food, and everyday life collapse. Told through her diary, it's a tense survival story about family, hunger, and endurance.

In a devastated New York City, Alex Morales must keep his two younger sisters alive after the same moon disaster shatters the world. Faith, duty, and dwindling supplies drive this grim companion novel.

A year into the catastrophe, Miranda's isolated Pennsylvania household takes in Alex and his sisters. Hunger, illness, and the arrival of strangers test what hope and family can still mean.

Willa's quiet life explodes when her estranged father murders his new family and may be coming for her and her mother. As the police close in, old secrets make everything even more dangerous.

Jon Evans tells the next stage of survival, when a fragile return of order brings fresh dangers and painful choices. After years of crisis, the question is no longer only who lives, but how.