The Summer I Shrank My Grandmother

By: Elvira Woodruff

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Synopsis: From the book Jacket: When aspiring scientist Nelly Brown shares a beach cottage with her grandmother one summer, she is thrilled to discover an old chemistry set in the basement. Equipped with bottles and beakers, test tubes and chemicals, it also has instructions for mixing up magic formulas. Each child using the set can make a wish that will come true. Nelly, who loves her 70-year-old grandmother more than anyone else in world, decides to mix up a formula for making her young. Little does she realize that she'll meet Grandma at age 30, 15, 10, 6, 4, 2 and finally as an infant. Horrified that her grandmother might shrink into nothing, Nelly calls on her cousin Ben to help reverse the effects of the formula. But is he able to help? And will Nelly ever see Grandma as a 70-year-old again? ELVIRA WOODRUFF has worked as both a children's librarian and a storyteller. She is also the author of one other novel, Awfully Short for the Fourth Grade, and a picture book, Tubtime. She lives in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania, with her two sons, Noah and Jess. KATHERINE COVILLE has illustrated both picture books and middle-grade fiction. The mother of three children, she lives in Syracuse, New York.