Below is the complete list of Jennifer Weiner’s The Littlest Bigfoot books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of The Littlest Bigfoot Books
About The Littlest Bigfoot
Jennifer Weiner’s The Littlest Bigfoot series is a middle-grade fantasy trilogy about friendship, belonging, self-acceptance, and the strange consequences of discovering that legendary creatures have been living alongside humans all along. Written for younger readers than Weiner’s adult novels, the series follows twelve-year-old Alice Mayfair, a lonely girl accustomed to feeling invisible, and Millie Maximus, an unusually small and ambitious Bigfoot who feels just as out of place among her own people.
The series grew from Weiner’s interest in Bigfoot mythology and the idea of how supposedly mythical creatures might interact with the modern human world. She has explained that she also wanted to reshape the familiar children’s-story pattern of an isolated child discovering a hidden magical society. The project was initially conceived as a single story, but its expanding plot and cast led to its development as a trilogy.
The Littlest Bigfoot establishes the friendship at the heart of the series. Alice has been sent to yet another boarding school when she encounters Millie and rescues her from drowning. Millie belongs to a hidden Bigfoot community whose members call humans “NoFurs” and generally regard them as dangerous. Millie, however, is fascinated by human culture and dreams of becoming a performer rather than accepting the expectations of her tribe. Alice agrees to protect her existence, beginning a friendship between two girls who come from radically different worlds but share the experience of not fitting comfortably into either one.
Jeremy Bigelow provides another important perspective. His determination to prove that Bigfoots exist initially places him at odds with Alice and Millie, but his role becomes more complicated as the trilogy develops. The books gradually widen beyond a simple secret-creature adventure, introducing competing human interests, questions about Alice’s own identity, and the danger that exposure could pose to the Bigfoot community.
Little Bigfoot, Big City expands the setting considerably. Alice begins searching for answers about what she really is, while Millie becomes increasingly determined to pursue her dream of performing for humans. Their journey takes them to New York City, where Millie hopes to audition for a television talent show. Jeremy, meanwhile, has attracted the attention of a secretive government organization interested in the Bigfoots and what they may possess. The sequel consequently raises the stakes from protecting one friendship to confronting forces capable of threatening an entire hidden society.
The concluding novel, The Bigfoot Queen, brings Alice, Millie, Jeremy, and Jessica Jarvis together as the secrecy surrounding the Bigfoots faces its most serious challenge. The threat of their world being exposed gives the finale a broader conflict while returning to the trilogy’s central concern: whether people who have been treated as strange, inconvenient, or unacceptable can find places where they are valued without disguising what makes them different.
That theme connects the fantasy elements to experiences recognizable to younger readers. Alice feels overlooked and unwanted; Millie is judged because she does not behave the way her community expects; Jeremy is driven partly by his own need for recognition. Their mistakes and ambitions repeatedly create problems, but Weiner treats their outsider status with sympathy rather than presenting conformity as the solution.
The Littlest Bigfoot therefore works as both an adventure trilogy and an extended story about identity. Its secret societies, Bigfoot hunters, government interest, hidden histories, and New York escapades provide the momentum, while the friendship between Alice and Millie supplies its emotional center. Because the mysteries surrounding Alice and the Bigfoot world develop across all three books, the trilogy has a genuine continuing narrative, with the later installments building directly on discoveries and relationships established at the beginning.