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:
The following are the novelizations of each individual film from the series.
| No. | Name | Date released | Written by | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align = center | 1 | align = center | High School Musical | align = center | June 1, 2006 | N.B. Grace |
| align = center | 2 | align = center | High School Musical 2 | align = center | August 14, 2007 | N.B. Grace |
| align = center | 3 | align = center | High School Musical 3: Senior Year | align = center | September 23, 2008 | N.B. Grace |
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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align = center | 1 | align = center | Battle of The Bands | align = center | January 16, 2007 | N.B. Grace | |
| align = center | 2 | align = center | Wildcat Spirit | align = center | March 20, 2007 | Catherine Hapka | |
| align = center | 3 | align = center | Poetry in Motion | align = center | May 22, 2007 | Alice Alfonsi | |
| align = center | 4 | align = center | Crunch Time | align = center | July 31, 2007 | N.B. Grace | |
| align = center | 5 | align = center | Broadway Dreams | align = center | September 25, 2007 | N.B. Grace | |
| align = center | 6 | align = center | Heart to Heart | align = center | November 27, 2007 | Helen Perelman | |
| align = center | 7 | align = center | Friends 4Ever? | align = center | February 26, 2008 | Catherine Hapka | |
| align = center | 8 | align = center | Get Your Vote On! | align = center | April 22, 2008 | Alice Alfonsi | |
| align = center | 9 | align = center | Ringin' It In | align = center | August 26, 2008 | N.B. Grace | |
| align = center | 10 | align = center | Turn Up the Heat | align = center | October 28, 2008 | Helen Perelman | |
| align = center | 11 | align = center | In The Spotlight | align = center | December 23, 2008 | Catharine Hapka | |
| align = center | 12 | align = center | Bonjour, Wildcats![2] | align = center | February 24, 2009 | N.B. Grace | |
| align = center | 13 | align = center | Game On[3] | align = center | April 28, 2009 | Sarah Nathan | |
| align = center | 14 | align = center | Lights, Camera, Action | align = center | July 21, 2009 | N.B. Grace |
This series takes place in the same canon as the Stories from East High, but are roughly double the length of the other books.