Jim Eldridge Reading Order

6 books (2004–2016)

Start with 50 Things You Should Know About The Tudors(By: Rupert Matthews), the first of 6 books in the 50 Things You Should Know About . . . series.

#	Title
1	50 Things You Should Know About The Tudors(By: Rupert Matthews) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
2	50 Things You Should Know about Fierce Creatures(By: Steve Parker) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
3	50 Things You Should Know About The First World War 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	50 Things You Should Know About The Human Body(By: Angela Royston) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	50 Things You Should Know About the Second World War(By: Simon Pratt-Adams) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
6	50 Things You Should Know About the Environment(By: Jen Green) 2016Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (2020–2020)

3 books (2010–2011)

Start with Death in the Desert and read in order.

#	Title
1	Death in the Desert 2010Buy 🇺🇸
2	Jungle Kill 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	Urban Assassin 2011Buy 🇺🇸

53 books (2001–2017)

Start with Bug Boy - Spider Camp!(By: Jeanne Willis), the first of 53 books in the Bug Club series.

#	Title
1	Bug Boy - Spider Camp!(By: Jeanne Willis) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
2	Soppy Hoppy(By: Jeanne Willis) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
3	Bug Boy - Slug Picnic(By: Jeanne Willis) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
4	Pompom Pets(By: Jeanne Willis) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
5	Sid Did it(By: Jeanne Willis) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Moon Monsters Get Lost(By: Jeanne Willis) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
7	Rat and Cat - The Dance(By: Jeanne Willis) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
8	Slug Picnic(By: Jeanne Willis) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
9	A Little Green Monster(By: Jeanne Willis) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
10	Get a Parrot(By: Jeanne Willis) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
11	Keeping a Pet(By: Jeanne Willis) 2007Buy 🇺🇸
12	Babysitting Barney(By: Jeanne Willis) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
13	Boring, Boring(By: Jeanne Willis) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
14	Giant George & the Robin(By: Jeanne Willis) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
15	Rat and Cat - The Hat!(By: Jeanne Willis) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Trout Fishing Song(By: Jeanne Willis) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
17	Beetle Cookies(By: Jeanne Willis) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
18	Dig Sid Dig(By: Jeanne Willis) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
19	One-Way Ticket to Mars(By: Jeanne Willis) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
20	A Rat and Cat in the Hat Trick(By: Jeanne Willis) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
21	Little Red Riding Hoody(By: Jeanne Willis) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
22	Spider Camp(By: Jeanne Willis) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Bop(By: Jeanne Willis) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Not-So-Merry-Go-Round(By: Maureen Haselhurst) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
25	The Quiz Went Fizz!(By: Jeanne Willis) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
26	Butterfly Pie(By: Jeanne Willis) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
27	Let's Rock(By: Jeanne Willis) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
28	Sea Fishing(By: Jeanne Willis) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
29	Sid and the Boxer Pup(By: Jeanne Willis) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Runaway T(By: Jeanne Willis) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
31	Changing Places(By: Nette Hilton) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
32	Flash the Dog Dives In! 2012Buy 🇺🇸
33	Machines on the Move(By: Clive Gifford) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
34	Plays to Act Tiddler(By: Julia Donaldson) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
35	Rat and Cat - Let's Jump(By: Jeanne Willis) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
36	Step Inside a Story(By: Julia Donaldson) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
37	Swoop Flies South(By: Smriti Prasadam-Halls) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
38	The Dragon's Tale and Other Beastly Stories(By: Anthony Horowitz,Simone Massoni) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
39	Tyrannosaurus Drip(By: Julia Donaldson) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
40	Big Giant, Little Bear(By: Rosalind Kerven) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
41	Don't Call Me Mum!(By: Julia Donaldson) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
42	Flash the Dog Bounces In! 2013Buy 🇺🇸
43	Frog Fight(By: Julia Donaldson) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
44	Goha and the Shoes(By: Julia Donaldson) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
45	Goldilocks and The Clever Plan(By: Smriti Prasadam-Halls) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
46	Goldilocks and the Big Mess(By: Smriti Prasadam-Halls) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
47	Missing Milly(By: Julia Donaldson) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
48	Rap-unzel(By: Jeanne Willis) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
49	The Best Bet(By: Julia Donaldson,Charlie Alder) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
50	The Noises Next Door(By: Julia Donaldson) 2013Buy 🇺🇸
51	Goldilocks and the Porridge Problem(By: Smriti Prasadam-Halls) 2016Buy 🇺🇸
52	The Road to Freedom(By: Lesa Cline-Ransome) 2017Buy 🇺🇸
53	The Tree(By: Smriti Prasadam-Halls) 2017Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2025–2026)

Start with Murder at St Paul's Cathedral and read in order.

2 books (2013–2016)

Start with Under Attack and read in order.

#	Title
1	Under Attack 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	Gunpoint 2016Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1995–2014)

Start with Monster Summer Reading Pack, the first of 5 books in the Collections series.

#	Title
1	Monster Summer Reading Pack 1995Buy 🇺🇸
2	Spies And Special Forces! 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	Second World War Stories for Boys 2012Buy 🇺🇸
4	Daring World War Two Stories for Boys 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	Courageous First World War Stories 2014Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2016–2017)

Start with Assassins and read in order.

#	Title
1	Assassins 2016Buy 🇺🇸
2	Shadows of the Dead 2017Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2009–2011)

Start with Disgusting Dave And The Farting Dog and read in order.

#	Title
1	Disgusting Dave And The Farting Dog 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	Disgusting Dave And The Flesh Eating Maggots 2010Buy 🇺🇸
3	Disgusting Dave and the Bucketful of Vomit 2011Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1995–1995)

Start with Death In The Jungle, the first of 4 books in the Fantasy Soldiers series.

#	Title
1	Death In The Jungle 1995Buy 🇺🇸
2	Killer In The City 1995Buy 🇺🇸
3	Plague Ship 1995Buy 🇺🇸
4	White Death 1995Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1997–1997)

#	Title
1	Captain Hawk And The Stone Of Destiny 1997Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2021–2022)

Start with Murder at the Ritz and read in order.

#	Title
1	Murder at the Ritz 2021Buy 🇺🇸
2	Murder at the Savoy 2021Buy 🇺🇸
3	Murder at Claridge's 2022Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (2014–2021)

Start with I Was There… Alone In The Trenches(By: Vince Cross), the first of 8 books in the I Was There series.

#	Title
1	I Was There… Alone In The Trenches(By: Vince Cross) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
2	Richard III(By: Stuart Hill) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
3	1066 2015Buy 🇺🇸
4	I Was There Boudica's Army(By: Hilary McKay) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	I Was There Tutankhamun's Tomb(By: Sue Reid) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
6	I Was There Viking Invasion(By: Stuart Hill) 2015Buy 🇺🇸
7	I Was There...: Ira Aldridge(By: Judy Hepburn) 2021Buy 🇺🇸
8	On Board the Titanic(By: Margi McAllister) 2021Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2022–2024)

Start with Murder at Aldwych Station, the first of 4 books in the London Underground Station Mysteries series.

#	Title
1	Murder at Aldwych Station 2022Buy 🇺🇸
2	Murder at Down Street Station 2023Buy 🇺🇸
3	Murder at Lord's Station 2024Buy 🇺🇸
4	Murder at Whitechapel Road Station 2024Buy 🇺🇸

13 books (2018–2027)

Start with Murder at the Fitzwilliam, the first of 13 books in the Museum Mysteries series.

#	Title
1	Murder at the Fitzwilliam 2018Buy 🇺🇸
2	Murder at the Ashmolean 2019Buy 🇺🇸
3	Murder at the British Museum 2019Buy 🇺🇸
4	Murder at the Manchester Museum 2020Buy 🇺🇸
5	Murder at the Natural History Museum 2020Buy 🇺🇸
6	Murder at Madame Tussauds 2021Buy 🇺🇸
7	Murder at the National Gallery 2022Buy 🇺🇸
8	Murder at the Victoria and Albert Museum 2022Buy 🇺🇸
9	Murder at the Louvre 2023Buy 🇺🇸
10	Murder at the Tower of London 2023Buy 🇺🇸
11	Murder at the Colosseum 2025Buy 🇺🇸
12	Murder at the Pyramids 2026Buy 🇺🇸
13	Murder at the Vatican 2027Buy 🇺🇸

24 books (1992–2022)

Start with The Titanic(By: Ellen Emerson White), the first of 24 books in the My Story series.

#	Title
1	The Titanic(By: Ellen Emerson White) 1992Buy 🇺🇸
2	My Story The Trenches 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	My Story(By: Vince Cross) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
4	The '45 Rising(By: Frances Mary Hendry) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Crystal Palace(By: Frances Mary Hendry) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Great Plague(By: Pamela Oldfield) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Hunger(By: Carol Drinkwater) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
8	Twentieth Century Girl(By: Carol Drinkwater) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
9	Battle of Britain(By: Chris Priestley) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
10	Suffragette(By: Carol Drinkwater) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
11	Victorian Workhouse(By: Pamela Oldfield) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
12	Road to War(By: Valerie Wilding) 2008Buy 🇺🇸
13	Sophie's Secret War(By: Jill Atkins) 2009Buy 🇺🇸
14	Cadogan Square(By: Carol Drinkwater) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
15	Factory Girl(By: Pamela Oldfield) 2011Buy 🇺🇸
16	Nowhere to Run(By: Carol Drinkwater) 2012Buy 🇺🇸
17	War Spy 2013Buy 🇺🇸
18	Victoria(By: Anna Kirwan) 2014Buy 🇺🇸
19	Codename Céline 2015Buy 🇺🇸
20	Coming Home 2018Buy 🇺🇸
21	Mayflower(By: Kathryn Lasky) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
22	Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan(By: Sufiya Ahmed) 2020Buy 🇺🇸
23	Mary Prince(By: E.L. Norry) 2022Buy 🇺🇸
24	Princess Sophia Duleep Singh(By: Sufiya Ahmed) 2022Buy 🇺🇸

17 books (2002–2011)

Start with Armada: Thomas Hobbs, England, 1587-1588, the first of 17 books in the My Story: Boys series.

#	Title
1	Armada: Thomas Hobbs, England, 1587-1588 2002Buy 🇺🇸
2	Battle of Britain(By: Chris Priestley) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Trenches: Billy Stevens, The Western Front, 1914-1918 2002Buy 🇺🇸
4	Trafalgar: James Grant, HMS Norseman, 1799-1806(By: Bryan Perrett) 2002Buy 🇺🇸
5	Agincourt : Jenkin Lloyd, France, 1415(By: Michael Cox) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
6	Flying Ace: Jack Fairfax, Royal Flying Corps, 1915-1918 2003Buy 🇺🇸
7	Waterloo: Bob Jenkins, Royal Horse Artillery, 1814-1817(By: Bryan Perrett) 2003Buy 🇺🇸
8	Crimea: Michael Pope, 110th Regiment, 1853-1857(By: Bryan Perrett) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
9	D-Day: Lieutenant Andy Pope, Normandy, 1944(By: Bryan Perrett) 2004Buy 🇺🇸
10	Spy Smuggler: Paul Lelaud, France, 1942-1944 2004Buy 🇺🇸
11	Desert Danger: Tim Jackson, North Africa WWII 2005Buy 🇺🇸
12	U-boat Hunter: Peter Rogers, HMS Arum, 1939-1945(By: Bryan Perrett) 2005Buy 🇺🇸
13	Roman Invasion: A British Boy, AD 84 2008Buy 🇺🇸
14	Pyramid of Secrets 2010Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Storm to Come: Two boys on the run from the Nazis, Vienna, 1939(By: Yankev Glatshteyn) 2010Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Sweep's Boy: A Victorian Boy, London, 1870 2010Buy 🇺🇸
17	Dodger: The Story of a Victorian Pickpocket 2011Buy 🇺🇸

16 books (1983–2017)

Start with The Funniest Joke Book, the first of 16 books in the Non-Fiction series.

#	Title
1	The Funniest Joke Book 1983Buy 🇺🇸
2	Bogeys, Boils And Bellybuttons(With: Duncan Eldridge) 1986Buy 🇺🇸
3	Save Our Planet 1987Buy 🇺🇸
4	Holidays Survival Guide 1989Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Complete How to Handle Grown-ups(With: Duncan Eldridge) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
6	Completely Misleading Guide to School 1994Buy 🇺🇸
7	What Grown-Ups Say and What They Really Mean 1994Buy 🇺🇸
8	Even More Ways to Handle Grown-ups(With: Duncan Eldridge) 1996Buy 🇺🇸
9	Warriors! True Stories Of Combat, Skill And Courage 2001Buy 🇺🇸
10	A Canny History of Carlisle 2006Buy 🇺🇸
11	Standing Alone 2011Buy 🇺🇸
12	Charles Dickens 2012Buy 🇺🇸
13	London Stories 2012Buy 🇺🇸
14	Alan Turing 2013Buy 🇺🇸
15	Stories of the First World War 2014Buy 🇺🇸
16	Independence. War in Ireland 2017Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1997–2017)

Start with Tractor and Digger Save the Day, the first of 4 books in the Picture series.

#	Title
1	Tractor and Digger Save the Day 1997Buy 🇺🇸
2	Tractor And Digger 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Refugee Camp 2017Buy 🇺🇸
4	Wayfarers 2017Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (2003–2004)

Start with Hostile Terrain, the first of 4 books in the SAS series.

#	Title
1	Hostile Terrain 2003Buy 🇺🇸
2	London Siege 2003Buy 🇺🇸
3	Jungle War 2004Buy 🇺🇸
4	Secret Assault 2004Buy 🇺🇸

16 books (1972–2013)

Start with Down Payment On Death, the first of 16 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Down Payment On Death 1972Buy 🇺🇸
2	Bad Boyes(With: Duncan Eldridge) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Bad Boyes and the Gangsters 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	King Street Junior 1988Buy 🇺🇸
5	Monsterman(With: Duncan Eldridge) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
6	Uncle Jack and Operation Green 1990Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Double Life of E.W.Potts, Schoolboy 1991Buy 🇺🇸
8	Time Riders 1991Buy 🇺🇸
9	Uncle Jack and the Loch Ness Monster 1991Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Legend of the Lost Keys 1998Buy 🇺🇸
11	Desert Duel 2004Buy 🇺🇸
12	Dunkirk Escape 2009Buy 🇺🇸
13	4.3.2.1 2010Buy 🇺🇸
14	Sink the Tirpitz 2010Buy 🇺🇸
15	Bomb! 2011Buy 🇺🇸
16	Blood on the Wall 2013Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (2017–2017)

Start with Survivor: Escape from Pompeii and read in order.

4 books (2012–2013)

Start with The Deadly Game, the first of 4 books in the The Malichea Quest series.

#	Title
1	The Deadly Game 2012Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Invisible Assassin 2012Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Last Enemy 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Lethal Target 2013Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1999–2000)

Start with Behind Enemy Lines, the first of 6 books in the Warpath series.

#	Title
1	Behind Enemy Lines 1999Buy 🇺🇸
2	Deadly Skies 1999Buy 🇺🇸
3	Depth Charge Danger 1999Buy 🇺🇸
4	Tank Attack 1999Buy 🇺🇸
5	Island of Fear 2000Buy 🇺🇸
6	Night Bomber 2000Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (2014–2015)

Start with Big Rock and the Masked Avenger, the first of 6 books in the Wrestling Trolls series.

#	Title
1	Big Rock and the Masked Avenger 2014Buy 🇺🇸
2	Hunk and Thud 2014Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Giant Rumble 2014Buy 🇺🇸
4	Jack Versus Veto 2015Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Final Showdown 2015Buy 🇺🇸
6	Thud in Trouble 2015Buy 🇺🇸