Books in series
#1
The Berenstain Bears Accept No Substitutes
1993
Illus. in black-and-white. Even Brother falls into the temptation of torturing substitute teacher Grizella Brown. Then the pranks turn ugly, and Brother finds himself headed for big trouble.
#2
The Berenstain Bears and the Drug-Free Zone
1993
Illus. in black-and-white. Sister and Brother uncover a drug problem in Bear Country, and they're determined to track down the culprits. But just when they're sure they've solved the case, they learn that jumping to conclusions is not the best way to solve a problem.
#3
The Berenstain Bears and the Female Fullback
1993
When Bertha Broom signs up for the football team and is turned down by the coach, a heated political issue ensues and important questions about sexual stereotyping are raised in Bear Country.
#4
The Berenstain Bears and the Nerdy Nephew
1993
Illus. in black-and-white. When Professor Actual Factual's nephew Ferdy comes to town, the cubs try to make him feel at home—but he's a stuck-up nerd! Then Ferdy realizes that he needs the cubs, and everyone learns to respect one another for their own special talents.
#5
The Berenstain Bears and the New Girl in Town
1993
Illus. in black-and-white. Brother Bear falls in love with Bonnie Brown, but an ancient family feud resurfaces, and they're forbidden to see each other. Only when the cubs stage a production of Romeo and Juliet do the grownups of Bear Country learn to leave their prejudices behind.
#6
The Berenstain Bears and the Red-Handed Thief
1993
Illus. in black-and-white. Brother and Sister are sure they know who is breaking into lockers at Bear Country School. But when it comes to finding real proof, they're in for a big surprise.
#7
The Berenstain Bears and the Wheelchair Commando
1993
Illus. in black-and-white. Too-Tall makes fun of Harry and calls him "Wheels" because he's in a wheelchair. But Harry can handle it—he even challenges Too-Tall to a basketball game!
#8
The Berenstain Bears Gotta Dance!
1993
Illus. in black-and-white. Brother thinks dancing is silly, until his heartthrob Bonnie decides she may go to the spring dance with Too-Tall. Determined to learn to dance (quickly!), Brother cuts a deal with Sister's ballet teacher and learns something about helping out in the bargain.
#9
The Berenstain Bears and the Dress Code
1994
Illus. in black-and-white. When Mr. Honeycomb, Bear Country School's principal, decides to take some time off, who stands in for him? Mervin "bullhorn" Grizzmeyer that's who. And much to the cubs dismay he establishes a super-strict dress code!
#10
The Berenstain Bears and the Galloping Ghost
1994
While Brother Bear struggles to overcome his fear of horses, Sister Bear must cope with her fear of ghosts when she discovers that Miss Maud's Riding Academy may be haunted. Simultaneous.
#11
The Berenstain Bears and the Giddy Grandma
1994
Illus. in black-and-white. Brother and Sister think old people are boring until Grizzly Gran dons her pink tights and decides to perform her roller-skating, one-bear-band act in the big PTA fundraiser for Bear Country School! Will she embarrass the cubs or will they learn that you're never too old to have a good time?
#12
The Berenstain Bears and the School Scandal Sheet
1994
Illus. in black-and-white. The cubs of Bear Country School learn something about freedom of the press—and the responsibilities that go with it—when they put out The Cub Reporter, an underground newspaper that gives the teachers and administration a failing grade.
#13
The Berenstain Bears at Camp Crush
1994
DANGER—SUMMER ROMANCE AHEAD!
What is it that keeps drawing the boy campers and the girl campers together? Is it something in the air? Is it something in the water? Or is it the fact that Camp Director Grizzmeyer keeps trying to keep them apart?
-back cover
#14
The Berenstain Bears' Media Madness
1995
Illustrated in black-and-white. It looks as if the video age is taking over at Bear Country School when Teacher Bob helps the cubs set up a school TV station. Will the cubs still have time for the three R's? Or are they doomed to be vid-kids forever?
#15
The Berenstain Bears and the Showdown at Chainsaw Gap
1995
When there's a clash between the lumber interests (including Papa Bear) and the environmentalists (who want to protect an endangered bird), the cubs have some tough decisions to make.
#16
The Berenstain Bears in the Freaky Funhouse
1995
Illustrated in black-and-white. The Bear Detectives are faced with a three-ring mystery when a carnival comes to town as part of a big charity fundraiser. Where have all the profits gone—and why is Ralph Ripoff, the town scam artist, so interested in catching the thieves?
#17
The Berenstain Bears at the Teen Rock Cafe
1996
Illustrated in black-and-white. Ms. Acappella, the new music teacher, might not be so bad after all. She's got a soft spot for rock-and-roll and—even better, as far as the cubs are concerned—a knack for tackling mysteries!
#18
The Berenstain Bears in Maniac Mansion
1987
Illustrated in black-and-white. When Papa Bear discovers that almost all of the antiques in the Grizzly mansion have been replaced with fakes, the Bear Detectives spring into action. Could it really be as simple as the butler did it ?
#19
The Berenstain Bears and Queenie's Crazy Crush
1997
Look out! Too-Tall's on a rampage! The town bully's girlfriend has a crush on someone else, and Too-Tall is questioning every cub in sight. That's because no one but Queenie herself knows who that someone else it. It's only a matter of time, of course, until Too-Tall finds out. But when he does, he's in for the surprise of his life!
#20
The Berenstain Bears and the Bermuda Triangle
1997
Shy guy Brother has a crush on older, good-looking Bermuda—but what's up with the odd way she's coming after him—sort of like a shark attacking its prey? This latest chapter book, a surefire combination of romantic intrigue and cyber-thiller, will have readers flipping pages to reach the very last fast-paced chapter.
#21
The Berenstain Bears and the Ghost of the Auto Graveyard
1997
Beartown can't wait for its classic car show to open. But eight of the cars have been stolen right off the school athletic field on the same night that Two-Ton Grizzly saw a ghost at his auto graveyard. Has Beartown been invaded by a band of ghostly car thieves?
#22
The Berenstain Bears and the Haunted Hayride
1997
The cubs want to hold a Halloween Festival to raise money to help save Farmer Ben's floundering farm, but he's reluctant. After all, no self-respecting farmer would turn his place into a theme park! Things get spooky when Ben's long-dead ancestors show up. Will Ben's farm go bust, or will the ghostly forbears come to the rescue?
#23
The Berenstain Bears and the Big Date
1998
Ronald Grizzington III, the rich new cub in town, wants to date Bonnie Brown, but Bonnie isn't sure she likes the stuck-up cub. Brother Bear is sure—sure that he's not wild about any cub who wants to date Bonnie. Can Bonnie's heart be won by fancy restaurants and expensive gifts? Can Brother control his jealousy? Will the Big Date turn into the Big Disaster? Tune in to Bear Country to find out.
#24
The Berenstain Bears Chapter Book
The Love Match
1998
He's big. He's shy. He's Milton Chubb. And he's the new cub in school. He's also the brunt of endless jokes and pranks from Too-Tall and the gang. Brother and Sister think the only way to help the brawny bruin is to match him up with the equally hefty Bertha Broom. But there's rough going ahead for the king-size lovebirds. Will Too-Tall's teasing break them up? Or will they be torn apart by their own competition for the heavyweight spot on the school's new wrestling team?
#25
The Berenstain Bears Chapter Book
The Perfect Crime
1998
The Bear Detectives are once more on the case when the cubs discover that a valuable historical document (dating back to the colonial days of Bear Country!) has been swiped and replaced by a forgery!
#26
The Berenstain Bears Go Platinum
1998
Brother, Sister, Queenie, and Too-Tall are at the center of the mad, mad musical action in Bear Country. And the lead singer of Toxic Sludge has come to town to judge the music contest where they make their debut! But what is he told when he asks how to get to Beartown Concert Hall? "Practice, man! Practice!"
#27
The Berenstain Bears and the G-Rex Bones
1999
There's a mystery in Bear Country, and Actual Factual is just the bear to solve it. Dr. Zoltan Bearish plays nemesis to Actual Factual and the cubs in this Bear Country hugger-mugger, involving faked fossils, phony discoveries and a scandal that threatens to dash the reputation of estimable Professor Actual Factual before it's all through.
#28
The Berenstain Bears Go Hollywood
1999
Cecil Bear DeMille has decided to shoot his new movie Lost with the Wind in Bear Country, unexpectedly stirring up old rivalries and bad feelings around town. Original.
#29
The Berenstain Bears Lost in Cyberspace
1999
Get ready to enter Cybearspace. When wealthy Squire Grizzly gives each member of Teacher Bob's class a computer to do with as they will, all rules fly out the window—and the cubs' grades go south. Will the cubs get whiplash as they zoom along the information superhighway? Bear Country fans will love finding out.
#30
The Berenstain Bears and the Wax Museum
1999
When Madame Bearsaud decides to open a branch of her world-famous Wax Museum in Beartown, the Cubs might be thrilled but the town's more respectable citizens are up in arms. During the museum's gala opening—with all of Beartown in attendance—an electrical storm causes the lights to go out and suddenly those wax figures begin to look mighty eerie! When the lights come back on, Lady Grizzly's diamond necklace is still around her neck—but why are the dogs so interested in it? And just why is Madame's Igoresque sidekick suddenly walking without a limp? Something's fishy in the wax museum and it's up to the Cubs to track it to its source.
#31
The Berenstain Bears Chapter Book
The Great Ant Attack
2000
Head for the hills! The ants are coming! Ferdy and Actual Factual's ant-breeding experiment backfires and Bear Country is overrun by a rapidly multiplying colony of nasty hybrid ants who will eat anything in very large mouthfuls! Beartown is in a panic, and Mayor Honeypot authorizes Actual Factual to hire Bugsy X Terminator, the local bug bear, to destroy the ants. "Who would have thought," muses Actual Factual, "that the very existence of Bear Country would be endangered by an ant?"
"Or," as Ferdy aptly puts it, "an uncle." Uncle Factual, that is.
#32
The Berenstain Bears and No Guns Allowed
2000
March
The Berenstain Bears and
Once again, the Berenstains have focused on a subject of great concern for parents and kids guns.
When Ferdy the nerd gets paired with Too-Tall the jock in an assignment to study inventions, the one subject they can agree on is guns. While Ferdy's interest is strictly intellectual, Too-Tall's is, unfortunately, basically bang-bang. Things come to a head at Bear Country School when Too-Tall brings in a monster squirt gun that looks an awful lot like the real thing. The whole class learns a valuable in the wrong hands, guns can be bad business—whether they are real or not.
#33
The Berenstain Bears Chapter Book
The Phenom in the Family
2000
There's a brand-new pool at Bear Country School, and all the cubs are raring to try out for the swim team. No one is more surprised than Sister Bear when she outswims every cub in every event—even the butterfly stroke! With visions of Bearlympics gold dancing in Papa Bear's furry head, he insists on being Sister's personal trainer as she prepares for the big meet. It's a decision that everyone in the Bear family will live to regret, for Papa—armed with his trusty clipboard, whistle, and stopwatch—will stop at nothing to achieve victory! Whoever said it doesn't matter whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game . . . that sure wasn't Papa!
Author
Stan Berenstain
Author · 307 books
Stan and Jan Berenstain (often called The Berenstains) were American writers and illustrators best known for creating the children's book series the Berenstain Bears. Their son Mike Berenstain joined them as a creative team in the late 1980s.
