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. She is a cousin of children's author

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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 ''

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'' episode '' Return of the Jedi''.

Selected works

*''Something Queer is Going On'', with Mordicai Gerstein (illustrator), (1973), Delacorte Press, – first in the ''Something Queer'' series *''The Computer That Said Steal Me'' (1983), Scholastic, *''Keep Ms. Sugarman in the Fourth Grade'', with Dave Henderson (illustrator) (1992),

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, *''Cheater, Cheater'', (1993), Scholastic, *''School Spirit Sabotage: A Brian and Pea Brain Mystery'', George Ulrich (Illustrator), George M. Ulrich (Photographer), (1994), HarperCollins, *''My Life as a Fifth-Grade Comedian'', (1997), HarperCollins, *''Seventh Grade Tango'', (2000),

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, *''Who are you Calling a Woolly Mammoth?: Prehistoric America'', Daniel McFeeley (illustrator), J.R. Havlan (additional material), (2000), Scholastic, – first in the ''America's Funny But True History'' series *''Danger & Diamonds: a mystery at sea'', Mordicai Gerstein (illustrator), (2010), Roaring Brook Press, *''Paula Danziger's Amber Brown is Tickled Pink'',

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(co-author),

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(illustrator),

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(inspiration), (2012),

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, – a continuation of Danziger's ''Amber Brown'' series.

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