Books by Ellen Conford and Complete Book Reviews
Ellen Conford, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05806-2
Jean, 15, politely thanks her aunt and uncle for their birthday present to her: an ugly, tarnished lamp with a fat blue candle inside. That night when a storm causes the lights to go out, the lamp proves not only useful, but nothing short of...
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Ellen Conford, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07353-9
Conford's ( If This Is Love, I'll Take Spaghetti ; the Jenny Archer series) latest YA novel is a delectable treat, packed with humor, drama and the trials of adolescent infatuation. Holly is devastated when her father, a successful business...
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Ellen Conford, Author Starfire $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-29787-4
Adolescent infatuation ensues when a self-absorbed high school senior takes on an unusual summer job to help her financially strapped family. Ages 10-up. (Aug.)
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Ellen Conford, Author Harper Teen $15.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-025414-8
In this collection of featherweight but pleasurable romances, Conford (I Love You, I Hate You, Get Lost) composes 10 variations on a common theme: getting a date for the Valentine dance, dubbed the ""Sweetheart Stomp"" by the ""social bigwigs"" at...
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Ellen Conford, Author HarperCollins $4.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-440778-6
PW found these 10 ""affectionately wrought and cunningly overlapped"" romantic stories to be ""featherweight but pleasurable."" Ages 10-up. (Jan.)
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Ellen Conford, Author Scholastic $11.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-33269-9
Conford returns to the theme used to such success in A Silver Crown: one morning a girl wakes up to discover she's really a queen. Or, in teenager Abby Adams's case, heir to the throne of a tiny European country named Saxony Coburn. There was an...
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Ellen Conford, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $13.95 (137p) ISBN 978-0-553-05431-6
From the moment Stephanie asks herself, in the form of a school project, ""Why do fools fall in love?'' her own personal life becomes fraught with disaster and mishap. Her platonic relationship with Jon seems headed for more turbulent waters; Trevor,
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Ellen Conford, Author Little Brown and Company $14.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-316-15370-6
Conford, the author of such upbeat novels as Dear Lovey Hart, I Am Desperate and You Never Can Tell , succeeds once again. When Paul first comes to Burnside Academy, he thinks he has stepped into a nightmare. Broken windows, frigid bathrooms and...
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Ellen Conford, Author Scholastic $13.95 (133p) ISBN 978-0-590-45558-9
Spoiled romances, aggravating teachers and bothersome siblings are some of the woes humorously depicted in this collection of stories set in contemporary suburbia. Although, for the most part, the characters are cut from the same cloth and their...
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Ellen Conford, Author Little Brown and Company $15.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-316-15246-4
The conflicts Chandler endures with her compassionless guardian are small compared to the problems that she is about to face: kissed on a bet by Danny Malone, the wealthy but lonely orphan turns into a frog. Kept in an aquarium by Danny, who is more
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Ellen Conford, Author, Renee W. Andriani, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $15 (96p) ISBN 978-0-689-84734-9
In Annabel the Actress Starring in: Hound of the Barkervilles by Ellen Conford, illus. by Renee W. Andriani, the third title in the series, Annabel joins the cast of her first professional production. But the role presents real challenges,...
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Ellen Conford, Author, Diane Palmisciano, Illustrator Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $4.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-316-15352-2
After she reads three mystery books in a row, Jenny Archer decides that the family across the street merits strict surveillance, in this beginning reader. Ages 7-9. (Sept.)
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Ellen Conford, Author, Diane Palmisciano, Illustrator Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $4.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-316-15353-9
In another zany tale starring the irrepressible Jenny, she develops delusions of literary grandeur--which suffer a setback when she is assigned to write her autobiography. Ages 7-9. (Sept.)
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Ellen Conford, Author, Ellen Leroe, Author, Jean Thesman, With Avon Books $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-78038-9
There's nothing quite like a high school prom--at least if the authors of the four short stories here are to be believed. In Ellen Conford's slapstick ``Social Studies,'' two brainy guys set out to win prom dates by studying the methods of the most...
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Ellen Conford, Author, Renee W. Andriani, Author, Renee W. Andriani, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $15 (64p) ISBN 978-0-689-81404-4
Conford's (the Jenny Archer series) fast-paced and funny first installment of a chapter-book series introduces an appealing thespian, Annabel, whose first paid job requires her to play a gorilla for a children's birthday party. In addition to...
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Ellen Conford, Author, Diane Palmisciano, Author, Diane Palmisciano, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-15262-4
In another entry in the Springboard Book line, Jenny takes her mother's wish for a fur coatand the impossibility of her getting oneas a measure of their poverty. She resolves to earn the money for a coat herself, by inventing odd jobs to do for...
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