Elizabeth Levy
Elizabeth Levy is an American author who has written over eighty children's books in a variety of genres. 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. 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.Selected works
- Something Queer is Going On, with Mordicai Gerstein,, Delacorte Press, – first in the Something Queer series
- Nice Little Girls, Delacorte Press,
- The Computer That Said Steal Me, Scholastic,
- Keep Ms. Sugarman in the Fourth Grade, with Dave Henderson , HarperCollins,
- Cheater, Cheater,, Scholastic,
- School Spirit Sabotage: A Brian and Pea Brain Mystery, George Ulrich, George M. Ulrich,, HarperCollins,
- My Life as a Fifth-Grade Comedian,, HarperCollins,
- Seventh Grade Tango,, Hyperion Books for Children,
- Who are you Calling a Woolly Mammoth?: Prehistoric America, Daniel McFeeley, J.R. Havlan,, Scholastic, – first in the America's Funny But True History series
- Danger & Diamonds: a mystery at sea, Mordicai Gerstein,, Roaring Brook Press,
- Paula Danziger's Amber Brown is Tickled Pink, Bruce Coville, Tony Ross, Paula Danziger,, G. P. Putnam's Sons, – a continuation of Danziger's Amber Brown series.