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Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail

Author: Elvira Woodruff

Publisher: Yearling

Published: 1998-02-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0679885587

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 episodes based on true incidents, "the epistolary format and character development offer solid reading."--Booklist An IRA Teachers' Choice

Dear Levi

Author: Elvira Woodruff

Publisher: Turtleback Books

Published: 1998-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780606129107

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In 1851, 12-year-old 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 the rugged Overland Trail. Extensively researched, with episodes based on true incidents, the epistolary format and character development offer solid reading (Booklist).

Dear Levi

Author: Elvira Woodruff

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780679846413

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Twelve-year-old Austin Ives writes letters to his younger brother describing his three-thousand-mile journey from their home in Pennsylvania to Oregon in 1851.

Dear Austin: Letters from the Underground Railroad

Author: Elvira Woodruff

Publisher: Yearling

Published: 2000-08-08

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0375803564

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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.

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

Author: Elvira Woodruff

Publisher: Perfection Learning

Published: 1994-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780780740914

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When Marty Belucci chooses to write to Napoleon for a class project, his grandfather tells him how to get the letter delivered. His classmates are stunned when Marty receives a surprising reply.

Crossing the Gap

Author: Christopher Koch

Publisher: HarperCollins Australia

Published: 2013-07-01

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1743098472

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A fascinating insight into a major Australian novelist's development, this collection of pieces employs the memoir as springboard, presenting us with reflections on literature and an analysis of Australia's changing place in the world over the author's lifetime - a lifetime stretching from the British Empire of his childhood to the post-colonial present. 'Crossing the Gap', the title piece of the collection, has a particular topical interest, dealing as it does with the shift from Empire to a new Asia-Pacific consciousness. 'His essays offer striking expositions of the emotions and ideas which have fuelled his fiction.' the times Literary Supplement 'Reading the ruminations of Christopher Koch ... is a bit like going for a walk in the country at night beneath a full moon. You are absorbed into the atmosphere and afterwards find no clear recollection of the earth having passed beneath your feet.' the Age 'No novelist has done more to capture Asia for the Australian imagination than Koch.' Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor, the Australian

Kidnapped in the Yukon

Author: Lucy Berton Woodward

Publisher: [Don Mills, Ont.] : Burns and MacEachern

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13:

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Story, suitable grades 6 and up, set in the Klondike gold rush area.

The Magnificent Mummy Maker

Author: Elvira Woodruff

Publisher: Perfection Learning

Published: 1995-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780780766327

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Ten-year-old Andy's life changes after a strange encounter with an ancient mummy during a class trip to the museum.

Under Their Skin

Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-01-05

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1481417606

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From New York Times bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix comes the first book in a “crisp, intriguing, and thought-provoking” (Booklist, starred review) new series about twins who are on a quest to discover the secrets being kept by their new family. Nick and Eryn’s mom is getting remarried, and the twelve-year-old twins are skeptical when she tells them their lives won’t change much. Well, yes, they will have to move. And they will have a new stepfather, stepbrother, and stepsister. But Mom tells them not to worry. They won’t ever have to meet their stepsiblings. This news puzzles Nick and Eryn, so the twins set out on a mission to find out who these kids are—and why they’re being kept hidden.

George Washington's Spy

Author: Elvira Woodruff

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2012-05-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0545415160

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This historic time-travel fantasy is a riveting sequel to a bestselling classic.Ten-year-old Matt Carlton and six friends are accidentally swept back in time--to Boston in 1776! The British now occupy the city, and redcoat guards are everywhere! While the boys are being held captive by a den of Patriot spies, the girls have been taken in by a wealthy Tory family.The pox is rampant; danger lies around every corner--and there's no hope for returning home to their own time. How will these seven children survive?Readers will relish the nonstop action and humorous dialogue in this riveting sequel to Woodruff's bestselling novel, GEORGE WASHINGTON'S SOCKS.