Read-alouds and series
Top 10 finished comic series you can read start to end
Captain Underpants
Dav Pilkey · Ages 6-10
Twelve novels with cartoons and comic pages, 1997 to 2015. Books 6 and 7 are two halves of one story. About 6 to 10 is our estimate.
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Lunch Lady
Jarrett J. Krosoczka · Ages 7-10
Ten self-contained school cases, 2009 to 2014; the last brings back villains from the first nine. Labelled 7 to 10.
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Babymouse
Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm · Ages 7-10
Twenty books, 2005 to 2016, each its own school or home mishap, so any one can come first. The publisher says 7 to 10.
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Zita the Spacegirl
Ben Hatke · Ages 8-12
Three books, 2011 to 2014, one story start to finish. 8 to 12 is our estimate.
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5 Worlds
Mark Siegel and Alexis Siegel · Ages 8-12
Five books, 2017 to 2022, one quest; the last ties up the whole journey. 8 to 12 is our estimate.
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Cleopatra in Space
Mike Maihack · Ages 8-12
Six books, 2014 to 2020; read in order, because the last wraps up what the first set up. Scholastic Canada says 8 to 12.
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Kayla Miller · Ages 8-12
Seven books, 2018 to 2025, about one girl, her friends and her worries. 8 to 12 is our estimate.
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Big Nate (the novels)
Lincoln Peirce · Ages 8-12
Eight novels, 2010 to 2016, part prose and part cartoon. The comic-strip collections carry on separately and can be read in any order. 8 to 12 is our estimate.
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Bone
Jeff Smith · Ages 8-12
Nine volumes, 2005 to 2009 in Scholastic's colour editions, one long story. Scholastic labels each 8 to 12.
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Amulet
Kazu Kibuishi · Ages 8-12
Nine books, 2008 to 2024; the ninth, Waverider, finished it. Scholastic says 8 to 12 or 9 to 12.
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Every series here has its last book out, so a child can read the whole run with no waiting for the next one. Ours: each one has a Peabody page with the books in order and a checklist kept on your device, and My Shelf (peabody.kids/series/my-shelf) marks a series 'all read' when every box is ticked. The pages are ours; the books are not.
Every series with a Peabody page was checked against its publisher's pages (or Wikipedia and Bookroo where a publisher's page would not open) on 29 and 30 October 2026; counts are as of 30 October 2026. Ages say whose they are: the publisher's label, or Peabody's own estimate. Series without a Peabody page are named with their author only, from facts we are sure of. Ordered by a rule, not taste: youngest starting age first, then fewest books first. Checked 2026-10-25. Nobody paid to be here. The buy links are plain search links, not affiliate links, so Peabody earns nothing from them.
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