Elizabeth Levy

Not to be confused with Élisabeth Lévy.

Elizabeth Levy
Born	(1942-04-04) April 4, 1942 (age 82) Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Author Artist
Period	1973–present
Genre	Children's and Young Adult Literature
Website
www.elizabethlevy.com

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

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

• Something Queer is Going On, with Mordicai Gerstein (illustrator), (1973), Delacorte Press, ISBN   978-0385289597 – first in the Something Queer series
• Nice Little Girls (1974), Delacorte Press, ISBN 9780440062073 (ISBN10: 0440062071)
• The Computer That Said Steal Me (1983), Scholastic, ISBN   0-590-32636-8
• Keep Ms. Sugarman in the Fourth Grade, with Dave Henderson (illustrator) (1992), HarperCollins, ISBN   978-0-06-020426-6
• Cheater, Cheater, (1993), Scholastic, ISBN   978-0-590-45865-8
• School Spirit Sabotage: A Brian and Pea Brain Mystery, George Ulrich (Illustrator), George M. Ulrich (Photographer), (1994), HarperCollins, ISBN   978-0-06-023407-2
• My Life as a Fifth-Grade Comedian, (1997), HarperCollins, ISBN   978-0-06-026602-8
• Seventh Grade Tango, (2000), Hyperion Books for Children, ISBN   978-0-7868-0498-6
• Who are you Calling a Woolly Mammoth?: Prehistoric America, Daniel McFeeley (illustrator), J.R. Havlan (additional material), (2000), Scholastic, ISBN   978-0-590-12938-1 – first in the America's Funny But True History series
• Danger & Diamonds: a mystery at sea, Mordicai Gerstein (illustrator), (2010), Roaring Brook Press, ISBN   978-1-59643-462-2
• Paula Danziger's Amber Brown is Tickled Pink, Bruce Coville (co-author), Tony Ross (illustrator), Paula Danziger (inspiration), (2012), G. P. Putnam's Sons, ISBN   978-0-399-25656-1 – a continuation of Danziger's Amber Brown series.

References

1. "Birthday bios: Elizabeth Levy". Children's Literature Network. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2010.

External links

• Children's literature portal

• Official website
• Elizabeth Levy at Library of Congress , with 90library catalog records