Elizabeth Levy
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| Born | April 4, 1942 Buffalo, New York, U.S. |
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| Period | 1973–present |
| Genre | Children's and Young Adult Literature |
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Elizabeth Levy (born April 4, 1942) is an American author who has written over eighty children's books in a variety of genres.[1] Born in Buffalo, New York, she is currently living in New York City. She has appeared as a contestant on Billy on the Street on TruTV. Her cousin is children's author Robie Harris.
Writing career
[edit | edit source]She has written a long-running series of mystery novels for youngsters under the Something Queer is Going On banner (Something Queer at the Library, Something Queer at the Haunted School, etc.). She is also responsible for the Horrible Histories spin-off series America's Funny But True History. Levy wrote several novelizations of the Star Wars episode Return of the Jedi.[citation needed]
Selected works
[edit | edit source]- Something Queer is Going On, with Mordicai Gerstein (illustrator), (1973), Delacorte Press, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). – first in the Something Queer series
- Nice Little Girls (1974), Delacorte Press, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- The Computer That Said Steal Me (1983), Scholastic, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Keep Ms. Sugarman in the Fourth Grade, with Dave Henderson (illustrator) (1992), HarperCollins, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Cheater, Cheater, (1993), Scholastic, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- School Spirit Sabotage: A Brian and Pea Brain Mystery, George Ulrich (Illustrator), George M. Ulrich (Photographer), (1994), HarperCollins, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- My Life as a Fifth-Grade Comedian, (1997), HarperCollins, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Seventh Grade Tango, (2000), Hyperion Books for Children, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Who are you Calling a Woolly Mammoth?: Prehistoric America, Daniel McFeeley (illustrator), J.R. Havlan (additional material), (2000), Scholastic, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). – first in the America's Funny But True History series
- Danger & Diamonds: a mystery at sea, Mordicai Gerstein (illustrator), (2010), Roaring Brook Press, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Paula Danziger's Amber Brown is Tickled Pink, Bruce Coville (co-author), Tony Ross (illustrator), Paula Danziger (inspiration), (2012), G. P. Putnam's Sons, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). – a continuation of Danziger's Amber Brown series.
References
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External links
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- Elizabeth Levy at Library of Congress, with 90 library catalog records
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- American children's writers
- 1942 births
- Jewish American children's writers
- Living people
- Writers from Buffalo, New York
- American women children's writers
- 20th-century American novelists
- 20th-century American women novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American women novelists
- Novelists from New York (state)
- 21st-century American Jews
- Jews from New York (state)