Dan Elish Books In Order

Novels

  1. The Worldwide Dessert Contest (1988)
  2. Jason and the Baseball Bear (1990)
  3. The Great Squirrel Uprising (1992)
  4. Born Too Short (2002)
  5. Nine Wives (2005)
  6. The Attack of the Frozen Woodchucks (2008)
  7. The Misadventures of Justin Hearnfeld (2008)
  8. 13 (2008)
  9. The School for the Insanely Gifted (2011)
  10. The Royal Order of Fighting Dragons (2017)

Collections

  1. My Christmas Stocking (1993)

Non fiction

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The Worldwide Dessert Contest

‘The plot goes down as easily as ice cream and is topped with plenty of laughs, both subtle and broad. Certainly its silliness makes for a pithy read aloud and a booktalker’s dream. Call this delicious.’ Booklist, starred review ‘Elish writes

Born Too Short

What do you do if your best friend is Keith Livingston? Keith who practically needs a chart to keep track of his babes. Keith the stud/athlete/Adonis of Hannaford School in New York City. Well, for starters, if you’re like Matt Greene, a 5’1′ nerd who has never made out, you suffer. When Keith’s eighth grade musical, Star Crossed, is a smash, Matt can’t take it anymore. Blowing off steam on the corner of Eighty first Street and Columbus, he wishes his buddy’s life would fall completely apart. Sound serious? As Matt’s story shows, the insane, gut wrenching jealousy of a non stud/non athlete/non Adonis basket case can be wildly funny.

Nine Wives

Henry Mann is a 32 year old bachelor who has spent the last few years watching everyone he knows get married. After the most recent wedding, where an intoxicated Henry proposes to no less than three women including the rabbi, it dawns on him that being single isn’t that much fun after all. ‘Nine Wives is an inventive, original, funny, and big hearted novel, a book I will recommend to anyone interested in good fiction.’ Tim O’Brien, National Book Award winning author of July, July ‘Dan Elish has written an extremely funny book.’ Jay Parini, author of The Apprentice Lover’Dan Elish has created a Portnoy for the 21st century.’ David Eddie, author of Chump Change ‘Henry Mann wages battle between the real world and the imagined one with equal parts goofiness and suaveness. A very charming novel.’ Antonya Nelson, author of Female Trouble’Enough to put Bridget Jones to shame.’ Helen Schulman, author of P.S. In a world where Sex and the City and Bergdorff Blondes tell us what we think we need to know about relationships, Elish has created a world far more real without stinting on the wit, insight, or hilarity. Jonathan Rabb, author of The Book of Q Dan Elish at last shows women what lurks within the minds of men. Helen Ellis, author of Eating the Cheshire Cat I read Nine Wives while Dan and I were dating. I didn’t speak to him for a week, but I married him anyway. Andrea Elish

The Attack of the Frozen Woodchucks

Frozen woodchucks are attacking the galaxy! But they’re no match for Jimmy and his crew of space travelers…
or are they?

Meet our heroes:

Jimmy Weathers
An average fifth grader living in New York City who never suspected that the fate of the world would be resting squarely on his ten year old shoulders.

William H. Taft V
Jimmy’s best friend the great great great great nephew of the fattest man who was ever president.

Janice Claytooth
A ten year old rocket scientist whose bestselling book Light Speed and You has sold only one copy on earth but millions throughout the galaxy.

Imogene Weathers
A feisty two year old inventor with a penchant for turning the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Will this unlikely quartet discover the mastermind behind the frozen woodchuck attacks before it’s too late?

13

13 Things to Know About 13

1. This book is about a guy named Evan.

2. Three months before his 13th birthday, he has to move from New York City 3. to Appleton, Indiana,

4. where nobody knows him.

5. He’s not very happy about it.

6. His mom is kind of nuts.

7. His dad is kind of nuts too.

8. Evan’s not nuts, but he keeps ending up in nutty situations.

9. One of them involves a movie called The Bloodmaster.

10. Another involves a girl named Patrice.

11. But the nuttiest situation of all is his bar mitzvah

12. which it’s possible no one will come to.

13. Unless Evan can make some new friends really fast.

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