Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Henry Spaloosh! | 1998 | Chris d’Lacey | Buy |
| 2 | Fly, Cherokee, Fly | 1998 | Chris d’Lacey | Buy |
| 3 | The Snail Patrol | 1998 | Chris d’Lacey | Buy |
| 4 | The Table Football League | 1998 | Chris d’Lacey | Buy |
| 5 | Riverside United | 1999 | Chris d’Lacey | Buy |
| 6 | Lofty | 1999 | Chris d’Lacey | Buy |
| 7 | From E to You | 2000 | Chris d’Lacey | Buy |
| 8 | Scupper Hargreaves, Football Genie | 2000 | Chris d’Lacey | Buy |
| 9 | Pawnee Warrior | 2002 | Chris d’Lacey | Buy |
| 10 | The Salt Pirates of Skegness | 2002 | Chris d’Lacey | Buy |
| 11 | The Prompter | 2003 | Chris d’Lacey | Buy |
| 12 | Falling for Mandy | 2003 | Chris d’Lacey | Buy |
| 13 | Horace | 2004 | Chris d’Lacey | Buy |
| 14 | Shrinking Ralph Perfect. Chris D’Lacey | 2005 | Chris d’Lacey | Buy |
Chris d’Lacey’s standalone children’s novels include Henry Spaloosh! (1998), Fly, Cherokee, Fly (1998), Pawnee Warrior (2002), The Salt Pirates of Skegness (2002), and Horace (2004), among others. These earlier works for younger readers predated his dragon fantasy series.
The fourteen books cover a wide range of subjects. Fly, Cherokee, Fly tells the story of a boy and a racing pigeon. Pawnee Warrior draws on Native American themes, while The Salt Pirates of Skegness is a comic adventure set in the English seaside town. Several of the 1998-2000 titles have football or school-life settings, reflecting d’Lacey’s interest in everyday British childhood.
Readers who know d’Lacey through The Fire Within and The Last Dragon Chronicles will find these standalones quite different in scale and tone. They are shorter, grounded in realism, and written for a younger audience. The shift from these books to his later fantasy work shows how much his writing evolved over the early 2000s.