Elvira Woodruff

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1) Dear Levi: letters from the Overland Trail

Author

Language

English

Description

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.

2) The Christmas doll

Author

Woodruff, Elvira

Pub. Date

2001

Lexile measure

820L

Physical Desc

151 pages ; 20 cm

Language

English

Description

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Lucy and Glory are orphaned sisters with no real place to call home. Only their memories of a beautiful doll named Morning Glory brighten their bleak lives. One day, the girls find an old, battered doll that Glory senses is their beloved Morning Glory. But Morning Glory is no ordinary doll. And how she leads the girls to the most surprising turn of fortune makes for a heartwarming story that brims with love, hope, and the spirit of Christmas.

3) The Orphan of Ellis Island: a time travel adventure

Author

Woodruff, Elvira

Pub. Date

1997

Lexile measure

810L

Physical Desc

174 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm

Language

English

Description

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During a school trip to Ellis Island, Dominick Avaro, a ten-year-old foster child, travels back in time to 1908 Italy and accompanies two young emigrants to America.

4) The memory coat

Author

Woodruff, Elvira

Pub. Date

1999

Edition

First edition.

Lexile measure

AD 860L

Physical Desc

unpaged : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Language

English

5) George Washington's socks

Author

Woodruff, Elvira

Pub. Date

1991

Lexile measure

770L

Physical Desc

166 pages : map ; 22 cm

Language

English

Description

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In the midst of a backyard campout, ten-year-old Matt and four other children find themselves transported back into the time of George Washington and the American Revolution, where they begin to live out American history firsthand and learn the sober realities of war.