Here are five of author Meg Cabot's most beloved series for various ages.

For children

• Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls

  This ongoing series chronicles the adventures of nine-year-old Allie Finkle as she moves to a new neighbourhood and a new school.

  It has two volumes so far - Moving Day (March 2008) and The New Girl (August 2008) - and a third, Best Friends And Drama Queens, will be published in March.

  Price: Available at $19.80 (with GST) each at major bookstores.

  For young adults

   

• The Princess Diaries

  The popular series, which started in 2000, will end in January with its 10th volume.

  It is written in the form of diary entries by Mia Thermopolis, a teenage New Yorker who discovers at age 14 that she is the only child of the prince of the European principality of Genovia.

  Price: Available at $10.17 each (with GST) at major bookstores.

   

• The Mediator

  The completed six-volume series (2000 to 2004) is about 16-year-old Suze Simon, who helps ghosts resolve unfinished business on earth so that they can move on to the next world.

  Her love interest is Jesse, a handsome young man who died in the 19th century.

  Price: Available at $17.07 each (with GST) at major bookstores.

  For adults

   

• Heather Wells

  The ongoing mystery series has three books so far: Size 12 Is Not Fat (2005), Size 14 Is Not Fat Either (2006) and Size Doesn't Matter (2007), with at least another two books to come.

  The protagonist is Heather Wells, a former pop star turned residence house coordinator at New York College, who solves the murders happening on campus in her spare time.

  Price: Available at $19.21 each (with GST) at major bookstores.

   

• Queen Of Babble

  The trilogy - Queen Of Babble (2006), Queen Of Babble In The Big City (2007) and Queen Of Babble Gets Hitched (2008) - chronicles the romantic misadventures of Lizzie Nichols, a vintage-gown lover whose big mouth tends to get the better of her.

  Price: Available at $19.21 each (with GST) at major bookstores.

This article was first published in The Straits Times on Oct 11, 2008.