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If you find yourself buying books because of the numbers on the spines, you've probably succumbed to the series book fever. It can be difficult to find reading suitable for younger readers, and when we discover the Boxcar Children, Trixie Belden, or the Hardy Boys it's hard to let go. And why not? A collection of 150 titles featuring the same characters and with no trace of inappropriate subject matter is pretty alluring.

The problem with a lot of series books, however, is that they aren't very well written. After the first five books or so, it's hard for any writer (or collective authors, as is most often the case) to avoid derivative storylines, recycled dialogue, or repetitive descriptions. They usually do manage to keep the content clean, however, and that's what makes a lot of series popular.

We're certainly not suggesting you should avoid books like the Nancy Drew mysteries or Dear America novels altogether. They are fun for kids, and all the series we carry are wholesome and generally free of the typical bratty kids and questionable morals of so much contemporary fiction. (The Mandie books do feature a rather disobedient heroine, but these would be the exception.) When you find a whole collection of books that you can be perfectly comfortable handing your kids, it's natural and right to take advantage of it.

We would caution that you don't let these kinds of titles form all (or even most) of your kids' reading material. The great classics aren't series books, and plenty of them are just as wholesome while maintaining a much higher quality of expression. If your kids already read plenty of great literature and just need a break, series books are a good place to look.

A word of clarification: there are plenty of excellent literary series available (for instance, The Chronicles of Narnia, Margaret Peterson Haddix's Shadow Children, C.S. Forester's Hornblower books, etc.) that we haven't included here; they're offered in our Literature Packages section. For our purposes, series books are any series including more than 8 titles, and open-ended. If the series is contained, it doesn't qualify; if each book has a number and the series is constantly growing (or grew until the author died or retired), it's a series book.

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Ambush at Sorato
Ranger's Apprentice Royal Ranger #7
by John Flanagan
from Viking Books for Young Readers
for 4th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$8.49
Arazan's Wolves
Ranger's Apprentice: Royal Ranger #6
by John A. Flanagan
from Viking Press
for 4th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
Battle for Skandia
Ranger's Apprentice #04
by John A. Flanagan
Reprint from Puffin Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Battle for Skandia
Ranger's Apprentice #04
by John A. Flanagan
Reprint from Philomel Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$7.20 (2 in stock)
Bellmaker
Redwall #7
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
Fantasy for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Burning Bridge
Ranger's Apprentice #02
by John A. Flanagan
Reprint from Puffin Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$8.49
Caldera
Brotherband Chronicles #7
by John Flanagan
from Puffin Books
for 5th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$8.49
Doomwyte
Redwall #20
by Brian Jacques
Reprint from Firebird Press
for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Duel at Araluen
Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger #3
by John A. Flanagan
from Puffin Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Emperor of Nihon-Ja
Ranger's Apprentice #10
by John A. Flanagan
Reprint from Puffin Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Erak's Ransom
Ranger's Apprentice #07
by John A. Flanagan
Reprint from Puffin Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Eulalia!
Redwall #19
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Ghostfaces
Brotherband Chronicles #6
by John Flanagan
from Puffin Books
for 5th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$8.49
Halt's Peril
Ranger's Apprentice #09
by John A. Flanagan
Reprint from Puffin Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
High Rhulain
Redwall #18
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
Fantasy for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Icebound Land
Ranger's Apprentice #03
by John A. Flanagan
Reprint from Puffin Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$8.49
Kings of Clonmel
Ranger's Apprentice #08
by John A. Flanagan
Reprint from Puffin Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Legend of Luke
Redwall #12
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
Fantasy for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Loamhedge
Redwall #16
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
Fantasy for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Long Patrol
Redwall #10
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
Fantasy for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Lost Stories
Ranger's Apprentice #11
by John A. Flanagan
Reprint from Puffin Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Mariel of Redwall
Redwall #4
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
Fantasy for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Marlfox
Redwall #11
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
Fantasy for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Martin the Warrior
Redwall #6
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
Fantasy for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Mattimeo
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Missing Prince
Ranger's Apprentice: Royal Ranger #4
by John A. Flanagan
from Philomel Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Mossflower
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
New Beginning
Ranger's Apprentice Royal Ranger #1
by John A. Flanagan
Reprint from Puffin Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Outcast of Redwall
Redwall #8
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
Fantasy for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Pearls of Lutra
Redwall #9
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
Fantasy for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Rakkety Tam
Redwall #17
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
Fantasy for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Red Fox Clan
Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger #2
by John A. Flanagan
from Puffin Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Redwall
by Brian Jacques
1st edition from Firebird Press
for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Redwall Cookbook
by Brian Jacques
from Philomel Books
for 2nd-8th grade
in Literary Cookbooks (Location: COOK-LIT)
$24.99
Redwall Set (Trade Paperbacks)
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
Fantasy for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
Ruins of Gorlan
Ranger's Apprentice #01
by John A. Flanagan
Reprint from Puffin Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$8.49
Sable Quean
Redwall #21
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Siege of Macindaw
Ranger's Apprentice #06
by John A. Flanagan
Reprint from Puffin Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Sorcerer of the North
Ranger's Apprentice #05
by John A. Flanagan
Reprint from Puffin Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Stern Chase
Brotherband Chronicles #9
by John Flanagan
from Viking Press
for 5th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$8.49
Sugar Creek Gang #02
by Paul Hutchens
New Edition from Moody Press
for 4th-8th grade
in Sugar Creek Gang (Location: SER-SCG)
$5.09 $2.40 (1 in stock)
Sugar Creek Gang #03
by Paul Hutchens
from Moody Press
for 4th-8th grade
in Sugar Creek Gang (Location: SER-SCG)
$2.40 (1 in stock)
Sugar Creek Gang #04
by Paul Hutchens
from Moody Press
for 4th-8th grade
in Sugar Creek Gang (Location: SER-SCG)
$5.09 $2.40 (2 in stock)
Sugar Creek Gang #17
by Paul Hutchens
New Edition from Moody Press
for 4th-8th grade
in Sugar Creek Gang (Location: SER-SCG)
Sugar Creek Gang #17 (old)
by Paul Hutchens
from Moody Press
for 4th-8th grade
in Sugar Creek Gang (Location: SER-SCG)
$2.40 (1 in stock)
Sugar Creek Gang #19
by Paul Hutchens
New Edition from Moody Press
for 4th-8th grade
in Sugar Creek Gang (Location: SER-SCG)
Sugar Creek Gang #23
by Paul Hutchens
from Moody Press
for 4th-8th grade
in Sugar Creek Gang (Location: SER-SCG)
Sugar Creek Gang #36 (old)
by Paul Hutchens
from Moody Press
for 4th-8th grade
in Sugar Creek Gang (Location: SER-SCG)
$2.40 (1 in stock)
Taggerung
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Tournament at Gorlan
Ranger's Apprentice: The Early Years #1
by John Flanagan
from Puffin Books
for 5th-8th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
Triss
by Brian Jacques
from Firebird Press
for 4th-9th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$9.34
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