Elvira Woodruff

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1990
  • Latest Book:
    April 2014
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Full Series List in Order

A Time Travel Adventure

George Washington's Socks (Feb-1993)
The Orphan Of Ellis Island (Aug-2000)
George Washington's Spy (Nov-2010)

Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • Awfully Short for the Fourth Grade

    Noah Murphy carries his plastic "little guys" everywhere. One day, while sitting on the school bus with his younger brother, Jess, Noah makes a wish using magic powder from the toy machine.



    Noah looks at his little guys--Commander Falc...

  • The Summer I Shrank My Grandmother

    Budding scientist Nelly Brown is thrilled when she discovers an old chemistry set at her grandmother's summer cottage. The set includes everything for mixing up magic formulas, and guarantees that each child using the set can make a wish that will co...

  • Mrs. McClosky's Monkeys

  • The Wing Shop

  • Show-and-Tell

  • George Washington's Socks

    A Time Travel Adventure

    History class will never be the same! When five kids take a walk along Lake Levart late one night, a mysterious wooden rowboat beckons them aboard. As if in a trance, they all step inside. But what they don't realize is that this enchanted boat i...

  • Back In Action

  • Magnificent Mummy Maker

    Has a mummy’s spirit really moved into Andy's body?! What do you do when it seems like everyone in your family has done something magnificent -- everyone, that is, except you? That's Andy's problem. He just wants to do something special. So w...

  • The Disappearing Bike Shop

    Tyler and Freckle are amazed when they see a building rise up and disappear before their eyes. When the building reappears they take their chances and enter Quigley's Bike Shop. But it seems that Quentin Quigley does more than repair bikes. When the ...



  • Secret Funeral Of Slim Jim

    Wanting to follow in his late father's footsteps as a truck driver, Nick offers Bernard a memorial service at his aunt's and uncle's funeral parlor for Bernard's dead snake in exchange for the price of a trucker's road atlas. Reprint....

  • The Secret Funeral of Slim Jim the Snake

  • Ghosts Don't Get Goosebumps

    During summer vacation in West Virginia, eleven-year-old Jenna quickly makes friends with Angel Always. When Angel learns that Jenna's five-year-old brother, Nelson, can't talk, she suggests taking him to the haunted marble factory late at night. Tha...

  • Dear Napoleon, I Know You're Dead, But...

    Sending a letter to Napoleon through a secret courier service that delivers mail to people in other times, Marty Ballucci and his classmates are amazed when he gets back a reply and that he is able to correspond with several famous dead people....

  • A Dragon in My Backpack

  • Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail

    In 1851, 12-year-old orphan Austin Ives joins a wagon train headed for California.  As he makes his way across the country, Austin writes home to his brother Levi, describing life on the rugged Overland Trail.  Extensively researched, with episod...

  • Can You Guess Where We're Going?

  • The Memory Coat

    Coming into Ellis Island from Russia, Rachel and her family are ready to start a new life in America, so when cousin Grisha is singled out by an inspector, Rachel has to think quickly and uses an old tattered coat in an unusual way to keep everyone t...

  • The Ghost Of Lizard Light

    Fourth-grader Jack Newton is miserable: his family is moving across the country and he might never see Iowa--or his best friend--again. But Jack can't help but cheer up when he sees his new home: an old lighthouse keeper's lodge, right on the edge of...

  • The Orphan Of Ellis Island

    A Time Travel Adventure

    It all began as a class trip. Dominic Cantori has a painful secret. He's an orphan, and he doesn't want anyone to know it. One day, while on a class trip to Ellis Island, a tour guide asks everyone about their families. To avoid answering, Domi...



  • Dear Austin: Letters from the Underground Railroad

    Now in paperback! In this companion novel to Dear Levi, told in letters,11-year-old Levi helps a young African American in a harrowing flight for freedom along the Underground Railroad....

  • The Ravenmaster's Secret

    Best-selling author Elvira Woodruff's thrilling novel set in 1700s London tells of a young boy who must make some painful choices as he attempts to save the life a prisoner he's befriended.11-year-old Forrest lives at the Tower of London prison, wher...

  • Fearless

    In 1703 when a storm brings down his father's boat, eleven-year-old Digory Beale sets off alone, walking across the wilds of Cornwall. He must get word of his father's fate--and his own. For if his father is dead, Digory can never go home again. Dig...

  • George Washington's Spy

    A Time Travel Adventure

    When Katie and her twin cousins step into a mysterious rowboat, Matt and his three buddies run to their rescue. But they are too late -- and soon the seven are swept back in time -- to Boston in 1775. The British have occupied the city, and George Wa...

  • The Christmas Doll

    In a heartwarming novel that is destined to become a Christmas classic, acclaimed author Elvira Woodruff tells the story of two orphaned sisters whose lives are forever changed by a magical doll. Lucy and Glory are orphaned sisters with no real pl...

  • Escape from the Tower of London

    In London in 1735, eleven-year-old Forrest Harper is living with his family in the Tower of London. There he helps his father tend the ravens and guard the prisoners. Still, life is lonely. When vicious Scottish Rebels are captured, Forrest is deligh...

  • Small Beauties: The Journey of Darcy Heart O'Hara

    "One day this child shall hold the very heart of our family in the palm of her hand," predicts Granny on the day Darcy Heart O'Hara is born in a cottage on Derry Lane, in the town of Pobble O'Keefe, in County Kerry, Ireland. Darcy grows up to be a no...

Award-Winning Books by Elvira Woodruff

The Ravenmaster's Secret
2004 Carolyn W. Field Award -- Children's


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Elvira Woodruff has published 26 books.

Elvira Woodruff does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Small Beauties: The Journey of Darcy Heart O'Hara, was published in April 2014.

The first book by Elvira Woodruff, The Summer I Shrank My Grandmother, was published in October 1990.

Yes. Elvira Woodruff has 1 series.
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