Avon Camelot books in order

The Avon Camelot series by Bruce Coville is a 94-book series running from 1952 to 2003, starting with Lottie & Lisa.

Reading order

# Title Published Author Buy on Amazon
1 Lottie & Lisa 1952 Bruce Coville Buy
2 Summerdog Comes Home 1980 Bruce Coville Buy
3 A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher 1981 Bruce Coville Buy
4 Baseball Fever 1981 Bruce Coville Buy
5 The Trouble with Tuck 1981 Bruce Coville Buy
6 Irma and Jerry 1982 Bruce Coville Buy
7 Basic Fun 1982 Bruce Coville Buy
8 Esp McGee 1983 Bruce Coville Buy
9 Tunnel to Yesterday 1983 Bruce Coville Buy
10 Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You 1983 Bruce Coville Buy
11 Rich Mitch 1983 Bruce Coville Buy
12 Summerdog 1983 Bruce Coville Buy
13 Bet You Can’t! 1983 Bruce Coville Buy
14 The Earth is Flat–And Other Great Mistakes 1983 Bruce Coville Buy
15 Behind the Attic Wall 1983 Bruce Coville Buy
16 Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater 1984 Bruce Coville Buy
17 Gremlins 1984 Bruce Coville Buy
18 Maura’s Angel 1984 Bruce Coville Buy
19 The Jellyfish Season 1985 Bruce Coville Buy
20 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1 1985 Bruce Coville Buy
21 Get Rich Mitch! 1985 Bruce Coville Buy
22 Mystery of the Melted Diamonds 1986 Bruce Coville Buy
23 Ukrainian Egg Mystery 1986 Bruce Coville Buy
24 Moroccan Mystery 1986 Bruce Coville Buy
25 Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol 1986 Bruce Coville Buy
26 Flash Fry, Private Eye 1986 Bruce Coville Buy
27 The Anti-Peggy Plot 1986 Bruce Coville Buy
28 Best Joke Book for Kids 2 1987 Bruce Coville Buy
29 The Codebreaker Kids 1987 Bruce Coville Buy
30 Summer Camp Creeps 1987 Bruce Coville Buy
31 The Case of the Lost Look-Alike 1988 Bruce Coville Buy
32 Breezy 1988 Bruce Coville Buy
33 Racing the Sun 1988 Bruce Coville Buy
34 Anne Frank 1989 Bruce Coville Buy
35 The Case of the Vanishing Villain 1990 Bruce Coville Buy
36 Something Upstairs 1990 Bruce Coville Buy
37 Ghost Brother 1990 Bruce Coville Buy
38 A Haunting in Williamsburg 1990 Bruce Coville Buy
39 The Best Ever Kids’ Book of Lists 1991 Bruce Coville Buy
40 Ask Me Anything About the Presidents 1992 Bruce Coville Buy
41 The Adventures of King Midas 1992 Bruce Coville Buy
42 Tons of Trash 1992 Bruce Coville Buy
43 Maria, a Christmas Story 1992 Bruce Coville Buy
44 How to Travel Through Time 1993 Bruce Coville Buy
45 Lucie Babbidge’s House 1993 Bruce Coville Buy
46 Beardance 1993 Bruce Coville Buy
47 Christmas Countdown 1993 Bruce Coville Buy
48 Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers 1994 Bruce Coville Buy
49 The Mummy’s Curse 1994 Bruce Coville Buy
50 Lemonade Days 1994 Bruce Coville Buy
51 Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble 1994 Bruce Coville Buy
52 Main Street 1994 Bruce Coville Buy
53 Comet Luck 1994 Bruce Coville Buy
54 Home Front Hero 1994 Bruce Coville Buy
55 Ali Baba Bernstein, Lost and Found 1995 Bruce Coville Buy
56 Kwanzaa 1995 Bruce Coville Buy
57 Goodbye, Desert Rose 1995 Bruce Coville Buy
58 Vampire Mom 1995 Bruce Coville Buy
59 My Own Two Feet 1995 Bruce Coville Buy
60 Spookhouse 1995 Bruce Coville Buy
61 Harry the Poisonous Centipede 1996 Bruce Coville Buy
62 Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller 1996 Bruce Coville Buy
63 Four Perfect Pebbles 1996 Bruce Coville Buy
64 Zombie Queen 1996 Bruce Coville Buy
65 Freak Show 1996 Bruce Coville Buy
66 Going to Net 1996 Bruce Coville Buy
67 Tracks in the Snow 1997 Bruce Coville Buy
68 Danger Along the Ohio 1997 Bruce Coville Buy
69 Lasting Echoes 1997 Bruce Coville Buy
70 Night of the Chupacabras 1998 Bruce Coville Buy
71 As Ever, Gordy 1998 Bruce Coville Buy
72 No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War 1998 Bruce Coville Buy
73 Becoming Felix 1998 Bruce Coville Buy
74 Breakaway 1998 Bruce Coville Buy
75 Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me 1998 Bruce Coville Buy
76 It’s In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz 1998 Bruce Coville Buy
77 Leaving Summer 1998 Bruce Coville Buy
78 Flea Circus Summer 1998 Bruce Coville Buy
79 Calling Me Home 1998 Bruce Coville Buy
80 The Pizza That Time Forgot 1999 Bruce Coville Buy
81 Love Me, Love My Broccoli 1999 Bruce Coville Buy
82 Get on the Net 1999 Bruce Coville Buy
83 Don’t Try This at Home! 1999 Bruce Coville Buy
84 Bruce Coville’s Shapeshifters 1999 Bruce Coville Buy
85 A Kids’ Guide to America’s Bill of Rights 1999 Bruce Coville Buy
86 Bruce Coville’s Alien Visitors 1999 Bruce Coville Buy
87 Green Mango Magic 1999 Bruce Coville Buy
88 All the Answers 2000 Bruce Coville Buy
89 Can of Worms 2000 Bruce Coville Buy
90 Orphan Journey Home 2000 Bruce Coville Buy
91 Bearstone 2000 Bruce Coville Buy
92 Alice-by-Accident 2000 Bruce Coville Buy
93 Death at Devil’s Bridge 2000 Bruce Coville Buy
94 Alice By Accident 2003 Bruce Coville Buy

The Avon Camelot series spans an unusually long stretch of publication history, from Lottie & Lisa in 1952 all the way to Alice By Accident in 2003. The bulk of its 94 titles appeared during the 1980s and 1990s, with output peaking in the late ’90s when Bruce Coville contributed numerous entries including Night of the Chupacabras, Breakaway, Flea Circus Summer, and Bruce Coville’s Shapeshifters.

The catalog covers a wide range of subjects for young readers, from mystery titles like Flash Fry, Private Eye and The Case of the Lost Look-Alike to holiday-themed books like Christmas Countdown and Maria, a Christmas Story. Non-fiction and activity books also appear throughout, including Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You and A Kids’ Guide to America’s Bill of Rights, making the Avon Camelot line one of the more varied collections in children’s fiction publishing of the era.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books are in the Avon Camelot series?

There are 94 books in the Avon Camelot series, published between 1952 and 2003.

What is the first book in the Avon Camelot series?

The first book in the Avon Camelot series is Lottie & Lisa, published in 1952.

Do you need to read the Avon Camelot books in order?

Reading the Avon Camelot series in publication order starting with Lottie & Lisa (1952) is recommended, as characters and storylines develop across the 94 books.

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