High School Musical (book series)
The first book in the High School Musical series, was High School Musical: the Junior Novel, the novelization of the successful first film was released early June 2006, by Disney Press. This novel hit number one on the New York Times best-selling list best-selling list and remained on the list for sixteen weeks.[1] As of August 2007, the novel has sold more than 4.5 million copies with 1 million copies of the novel's follow-up, High School Musical 2: The Junior Novel, being shipped to American retailers.[1] Shortly after the success of the original novel, Disney announced that a book series, entitled Stories From East High, would be published in February 2007 with a new book being published every 60 days until July 2008. However, books from the series have been scheduled for publication after the originally announced date. A complete list of books is provided below:
List of books
Novels
The following are the novelizations of each individual film from the series.
No. | Name | Date released | Written by |
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1 | High School Musical | June 1, 2006 | N.B. Grace |
2 | High School Musical 2 | August 14, 2007 | N.B. Grace |
3 | High School Musical 3: Senior Year | September 23, 2008 | N.B. Grace |
Stories from East High
This book series is considered separate from the novelizations, although they do acknowledge events from the novels as well as from other books within the series.
No. | Book name | Date released | Written by |
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1 | Battle of The Bands | January 16, 2007 | N.B. Grace |
2 | Wildcat Spirit | March 20, 2007 | Catherine Hapka |
3 | Poetry in Motion | May 22, 2007 | Alice Alfonsi |
4 | Crunch Time | July 31, 2007 | N.B. Grace |
5 | Broadway Dreams | September 25, 2007 | N.B. Grace |
6 | Heart to Heart | November 27, 2007 | Helen Perelman |
7 | Friends 4Ever? | February 26, 2008 | Catherine Hapka |
8 | Get Your Vote On! | April 22, 2008 | Alice Alfonsi |
9 | Ringin' It In | August 26, 2008 | N.B. Grace |
10 | Turn Up the Heat | October 28, 2008 | Helen Perelman |
11 | In The Spotlight | December 23, 2008 | Catharine Hapka |
12 | Bonjour, Wildcats![2] | February 24, 2009 | N.B. Grace |
13 | Game On[3] | April 28, 2009 | Sarah Nathan |
14 | Lights, Camera, Action | July 21, 2009 | N.B. Grace |
Super Special Series
This series takes place in the same canon as the Stories from East High, but are roughly double the length of the other books.
No. | Book name | Date released | Written by |
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1 | Under the Stars | June 3, 2008 | Helen Perelman |
2 | Shining Moments | April 28, 2009 | Helen Perelman |