Douglas Evans

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  • Bibliography:
    46 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1992
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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Book List in Order: 46 titles

  • The Classroom at the End of the Hall

    You think your class is weird? Meet Roger. He's always doing gross stuff -- like writing his name on the blackboard in gunk from his nose. Recently, when he was cleaning the erasers, out billowed a chalk dust genie! But Roger's three wishes turned o...

  • Apple Island, Or The Truth About Teachers

    Teachers come from Apple Island, of course. They spend their days making crayons from the wax mines, picking paper from trees, and climbing on the monkey bars at the biggest playground in the universe. But some of the teachers on Apple Island are bus...

  • So What Do You Do?

  • The Elevator Family

    For the Wilson family, only the best will do! So when they arrive at the San Francisco Hotel and discover that there are no regular rooms available, they decide to stay in the place that suits them best of all: a room that has its ups and its down --...

  • Math Rashes and Other Classroom Tales

    BEWARE OF THE MAN-IN-THE-MOON. . . . The New-School-Year Moon shines over every school the night before it opens. This year the moon shines over the W. T. Melon Elementary School brighter than ever. And the man in the moon is none other than W. T. M...

  • Short Stories of Suspense and Adventure

  • MVP*: Magellan Voyage Project

    Join Adam on a thrilling around-the-world adventure as he competes in the Great Global Game! Every kid's dream is to be named Most Valuable Player. But how many ever dream that the game is a race around the world (no flying allowed) in just forty day...

  • Mouth Moths

    Mysterious goings-on transpire in the classroom at the end of the hall. One of the four rules posted above the blackboard in the tall teacher's classroom is "Raise your hand to talk," but Paul can't seem to stop himself from just blurting out whateve...

  • 2ndGraders



  • Del & Estelle

    They perch daily on streetlights at the corner of College and Ashby. Estelle is polite and tidy, while Del puts the pig in pigeon. Somehow these two birds manage to get along. Book with Tunes! Scan the QR codes or click on link to hear songs....

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  • Special Assignment

    The Specials--Jump Rope, Ace+, and Spitball--match wits with Bad,a disgruntled teenager, who tries to take over the school along with his band of masked delinquents-- Graffito, Class Clown, Tease, and Out-Of-Order....

  • The Specials E-Book 2

  • Twists

  • Twists II

  • VR Solution

  • The Elevator Family Hits the Road

    The cozy sequel to The Elevator Family. This time the tight-knit Wilson family stays in a toll booth on a bridge crossing the Mississippi River. Fantabulous accommodations! The best place west of the Mississippi, east of the Mississippi, and above th...

  • The Elevator Family Takes a Hike

    (revised edition 12/14?  The tight-knit Wilson family hike up  Mt. Bald and stay in the small, tidy cabin on top of a tall steel tower.  What a view!  What friendly neighbors they find in the wilderness around them!...

  • The Pixels, Journey to the Bottom of the Desk

    Global warming has wreck havoc upon Upper Poyntz Colony. The Pixel Corps of Discovery is sent out to find the source of the excess CO2 in the atmosphere. Days later, the Pixel's plane crash lands in a strange world, on the desktop of fourth-grader ...



  • The Substitute of Last Resort

    Class out of control? Will no regular substitute dare enter that classroom? Time to press the red button under the office clock and summon Miss Subway, the substitute of last resort. In the tradition of Mary Poppins and Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Miss Subw...

  • Bedbugs

    "Only a bedbug knows how it goes while you doze."That's the motto of the three bedbugs who live in Irene's four-poster bed. One night, when the moon is particularly bright, Irene meets this helpful trio, who tell her about her nighttime visitors--the...

  • Bradley's Odyssey

    The rousing sequel to Apple Island, or the Truth About Teachers. The Thinking Cap has been stolen, and Bradley Zimmerman, by request of the God of Education on Mt. Academy, must take another long and perilous trip to try and retrieve it.  What is mo...

  • Cozy Up to the Whiteboard

  • Anta Claus of Antarctica

    In a small cozy cottage on the cold South Pole lives a tall, skinny man with a bushy black beard. Read about Mr. Anta Claus, his two troll helpers--Tis and Twas--and the eight colorful yaks that pull his black sleigh through the air each Christmas Ev...

  • Captain John Paul Jellyfish

    Captain John Paul Jellyfish has led his fleet across the Atlantic Ocean to America. He doesn't like what he finds there. Follow the valorous adventures of the bravest jellyfish to ever sail the Seven Seas. His fleet's challenge? To rid Eastern seaboa...

  • How Come Stories

    How come there are so many unanswered questions about schools? How come school buses are yellow? How come the school year is nine months long? How come there are more women than men teachers? Now come and read how come....

  • Noe School

    A lipogram book for boys and girls! This book contains not a solitary E! A financial crisis! Cut costs! With dough running low and programs costing too much at his school, Principal Ouia insists that his staff and pupils must stop using that most pop...

  • A, B, See Spot Run!

  • The Very Tall Teacher



  • The Very Tall Teacher 2

    Miss Biggypedagog, the two-hundred foot third-grade teacher, continues her first year of teaching the class out in The Portable. During the winter the third-graders play jumbo soccer and take a trip to the ocean. In the spring they have a super-size ...

  • Children's Games

    A lonely girl learns the mystery of a sixteenth-century village she discovers in the coastal mountains of Oregon, a village filled with children playing games. A theme park? A medieval faire? No, it's much more!...

  • Special Effects

    Meet the Specials, the school superheroes and supersheroes--Ace +, Jump Rope, Spitball, Noise, and Gold Star. We're glad they are at our school. This time the Specials do battle with Dr. TT, a former school principal who attempts to take control of t...

  • The Specials Book 1

    The Specials--Jump Rope, Ace+, and Spitball--match wits with Bad, a disgruntled teenager who tries to take over the school with his banned of masked delinquents--Graffito, Class Clown,Tease, and Out-Of-Order....

  • Twists 2

  • The Elevator Family Goes Abroad

    London calling at Christmastime! A display window at Harrods Department Store! A red telephone booth! The London Eye! All those small, cozy places for the Wilsons to stay in! But after some royal heroics at the Tower of London, they end up spending C...

  • Deacon & the Chips

    Why have the microchips in Deacon’s neighborhood -- chips in traffic signals, ATM machines, mobile phones, and cars--- started to communicate with Deacon? Do they just want to help him out, to get free ice cream, good grades, or the occasional day ...

  • The Elevator Family Plays Hardball

    Long, low and cozy! Just the type of lodging the Wilson family prefers to stay in. And an added bonus! Each evening people come visit them while a baseball game takes place right outside their front door. Play ball!...

  • School School

    Maxwell School Elementary School is larger on the inside than the outside. The vast maze of hallways and classrooms is divided into two wings, the North Wing where students attend classes and the South Wing, the Unknown Zone, that is off limits to ev...

  • Thru Hiker

    Luke Dellar, age twelve, is weary of his flip-flop life. He flies to his father's house in San Diego one month and back to his mother's house in Seattle the next. He's even more tired of taking pills for his hyperactivity that has worsened since his ...



  • Our Teacher & the Thinking Cap

    A fable about finding your bliss!Our Teacher, age ten, rescues a sea lion on a beach in Oregon. As a reward, the sea lion tells Our Teacher about the magical Thinking Cap, a hat, when worn, reveals a person's innermost desire.In pursuit of the cap, O...

  • The Elevator Family Does the Big Apple

    Walter, Winona, Winslow, Whitney Wilson, and their scruffy, gray dog, Cat, have been invited to the Big Apple to appear on the Not Too Late Show! Where do they choose to stay? In perhaps the most famous elevator of all, the one that goes up to the ei...

  • The Last Lighthouse Giant

    Meet Blanco, the Last Lighthouse Giant Ages ago, giants arrived on the coastlines of the world. They built tall round houses on the dark headlands. Out their high windows the lighthouse giants shone bright lanterns to guide ships safely past their ho...

  • VR Services

    Zeke Martin and Cyra Nichols run VR Services, an online tech startup that creates customized virtual reality trips. But they have more fun using their VR skills and equipment to help the Bayview Police Department solve crimes. This time they investig...

  • The Elevator Family On Ice

    Wintertime! Walter, Winona, Winslow, and Whitney Wilson take the train to the Twin Cities to attend the SMALL (the Society of Minimizing and Living Little) Conference. They find the snow and ice-covered lakes to their liking. The small Warming Hut b...

  • The Arctic Ark

    By the year 2050, scientists say the entire Arctic region including the North Pole will be free of ice. Only one person, fourth-grader Tom Tucker, has asked the question no one else has asked. What will happen to Santa Claus?Santa is in trouble. Glob...

  • The Elevator Family On Mars

    NASA asks the Wilson family to stay six months at the Mars Desert Research Station in the Mojave Desert. The Wilsons will simulate living on the red planet to see how well a family can work together in a small confined environment. No sweat for this ...

Award-Winning Books by Douglas Evans

MVP*: Magellan Voyage Project
2009 Nutmeg Book Award -- Intermediate


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Douglas Evans has published 46 books.

Douglas Evans does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Arctic Ark, was published in March 2023.

The first book by Douglas Evans, The Classroom at the End of the Hall, was published in May 1992.

No. Douglas Evans does not write books in series.
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