Jerry Spinelli Reading Order

4 books (1989–2009)

Start with Connections: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults, the first of 4 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Connections: Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults 1989Buy 🇺🇸
2	It's Fine to Be Nine 2000Buy 🇺🇸
3	Baseball Crazy 2008Buy 🇺🇸
4	Half-Minute Horrors 2009Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1991–2012)

Start with Fourth Grade Rats and read in order.

#	Title
1	Fourth Grade Rats 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Third Grade Angels 2012Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1998–2009)

Start with Knots in My Yo-Yo String and read in order.

#	Title
1	Knots in My Yo-Yo String 1998Buy 🇺🇸
2	Stargirl Journal 2007Buy 🇺🇸
3	Today I Will(With: Eileen Spinelli) 2009Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2003–2019)

Start with My Daddy and Me, the first of 4 books in the Picture series.

#	Title
1	My Daddy and Me 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	I Can Be Anything! 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	Mama Seeton's Whistle 2015Buy 🇺🇸
4	My Fourth of July 2019Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1991–1993)

Start with Report to the Principal's Office!, the first of 4 books in the School Daze series.

#	Title
1	Report to the Principal's Office! 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Do the Funky Pickle 1992Buy 🇺🇸
3	Who Ran My Underwear up the Flagpole? 1992Buy 🇺🇸
4	Picklemania 1993Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1982–1986)

Start with Space Station Seventh Grade and read in order.

#	Title
1	Space Station Seventh Grade 1982Buy 🇺🇸
2	Jason and Marceline 1986Buy 🇺🇸

18 books (1984–2023)

Start with Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush?, the first of 18 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush? 1984Buy 🇺🇸
2	Night of the Whale 1988Buy 🇺🇸
3	Maniac Magee 1990Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Bathwater Gang 1990Buy 🇺🇸
5	Dump Days 1991Buy 🇺🇸
6	There's a Girl in My Hammerlock 1991Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Bathwater Gang Gets Down to Business 1992Buy 🇺🇸
8	Crash / The Mighty Crashman 1996Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Library Card 1997Buy 🇺🇸
10	Wringer 1997Buy 🇺🇸
11	Smiles to Go 2000Buy 🇺🇸
12	Loser 2002Buy 🇺🇸
13	Milkweed 2003Buy 🇺🇸
14	Eggs 2007Buy 🇺🇸
15	Jake and Lily 2012Buy 🇺🇸
16	Hokey Pokey 2013Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Warden's Daughter 2017Buy 🇺🇸
18	Dead Wednesday 2023Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2001–2007)

Start with Stargirl and read in order.

#	Title
1	Stargirl 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	Love, Stargirl 2007Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1995–1998)

Start with Tooter Pepperday and read in order.

#	Title
1	Tooter Pepperday 1995Buy 🇺🇸
2	Blue Ribbon Blues 1998Buy 🇺🇸