Ellen Conford Books In Order

A Job for Jenny Archer

Convinced that her family is poor because her parents refuse to get her a horse or a swimming pool, nine year old Jenny Archer follows her own path to making money, and plunges her house into the real estate market.

A Case for Jenny Archer

After reading three mysteries in a row, Jenny becomes convinced that the neighbors across the street are up to no good and decides to investigate.

Jenny Archer,Author

The irrepressible Jenny Archer is back with a hip new series design and look. Beginning readers will identify with Jenny’s unbridled enthusiasm and the amusing situations she encounters in this popular first chapter book series. Don’t miss out on all eight books in the Jenny Archer Series!

What’s Cooking, Jenny Archer?

Follows the comic mishaps of Jenny Archer as she goes into business preparing lunches for friends at school.

Can Do, Jenny Archer

Attempting to win a can collecting contest, the winner of which will direct a class movie, Jenny risks losing her best friend.

Get the Picture, Jenny Archer?

When Jenny Archer is given a used camera by her grandparents, she can think of many other presents she would rather have received. That, however, is before she discovers that her favorite magazine is holding a photo contest. Terrific prizes will be given to the best photographs with the best titles, so Jenny goes off on a whirlwind picture taking spree. Her dog, Barkley, doesn’t seem to be the best of subjects, and neither does her goldfish, but then Jenny thinks she has taken a picture of a neighbor trying to kill her husband’s dog. Jenny is shocked, but even more shocking is the idea that the neighbor might come after the person who took the picture!

Starring in Gorilla My Dreams

Meet Annabel Annabel the actress, that is. Annabel’s dream is to be a famous actress, but when she finally lands her first role, it isn’t quite what she had in mind. She has to start somewhere, though, even if it means pretending to be a gorilla at a little kid’s birthday party. The moment she accepts the job things get hairy. Her costume designer and best friend, Maggie, has trouble turning a raincoat’s furry lining into a gorilla suit, and then her archenemy, Lowell, steals her mask. Through it all Annabel tells herself, ‘The show must go on.’ Then she faces her biggest challenge of all a tough audience of five year old boys. Will Annabel be a hit or a flop? This book will have readers chuckling from the moment the curtain goes up and shouting ‘Encore!’ even before it’s over. Fortunately for them, Annabel will be back in further adventures!

Starring in Just a Little Extra

Maggie’s mouth dropped open. ‘I don’t believe it. You got discovered?’ ‘Well,’ Annabel said, ‘maybe not exactly discovered. But maybe very close to being almost discovered.’ When aspiring actress Annabel sees the movie company vans roll into her neighborhood, she is determined that this will be her big break. With her friend Maggie by her side, Annabel schmoozes her way onto the set and lands a role as an extra! She stays up all night watching scary movies and screaming at the top of her lungs to practice for her part. However, when the day of shooting arrives, everything goes wrong and Annabel’s five seconds of stardom turn into a disaster. But her career’s not over yet. Annabel doesn’t know it but the director has some tricks up his sleeve…
Annabel’s mishaps will have readers laughing out loud in this follow up to Annabel the Actress starring in Gorilla My Dreams.

Starring in Hound of the Barkervilles

Mystery, suspense, and a slobbering dog named Binky? When Annabel the Actress is offered a part in a mystery play, she can’t wait to prove her true acting ability in front of a grown up audience. But fighting off a drooly canine costar, wearing embarrassing pink bunny pajamas for a costume, and then coping with the obnoxious pranks of the most annoying boy at school isn’t exactly what Annabel had in mind when she dreamed of making her theatrical debut. Readers will cheer Annabel the Actress on as she conquers the stage in this third sidesplitting book of the Annabel series.

Starring in Camping It Up

Annabel is dead set on becoming a famous actress. When the camp play calls for auditions, she is only too happy to try out for the big part. Annabel clinches it with her blood curdling screams, and she thinks this gig just might be her big break. But soon she learns there’s more to the acting life than fame and fortune. And when a garden snake worms his way onstage opening night, it’s up to Annabel to make sure that the show must go on!

Annabel’s ordeals will have readers laughing out loud and applauding wholeheartedly in this follow up to Annabel the Actress Starring in Gorilla My Dreams, Annabel the Actress Starring in Just a Little Extra, and Annabel the Actress Starring in Hound of the Barkervilles.

Dreams of Victory

Felicia has a knack for recognizing things that are wrong and she has no qualms about voicing her opinions to anyone within earshot. When her well intentioned suggestions land her in hot water with her family and friends, Felicia decides to button her critical lips forever.

Dear Lovey Hart, I Am Desperate

When she takes on the advice column for her school newspaper, Carrie encounters more problems than she expects.

Seven Days to a Brand-new Me

Maddy Kemper is tired of not being noticed. And she wants more than anything for handsome Adam to notice her. Then Maddy buys Dr. Dudley’s new book, Seven Days to a Brand New Me. It’s time to go from dull to dazzling! But Adam’s reaction to the new Maddy isn’t quite what she expected. Reissue.

Why Me?

Fourteen year old Hobie, hoping to sweep women off their feet in the manner of his spy novel hero, runs into complications when he encounters a girl who has studied the bestseller, ‘How to Make Men Crazy.’

A Royal Pain

A sixteen year old in Kansas, who discovers she is really a princess, is taken to a tiny European monarchy to assume her duties and marry a distasteful neighboring prince, and in the ensuing weeks tries to become such a ‘royal pain’ that everyone will want to be rid of her.

Dear Mom, Get Me Out of Here!

Skeptical at first, Paul Tanner joins the school journalist, Chris Bishop, on a mission to expose the headmaster as one of America’s most wanted criminals.

My Sister the Witch

Norman is sure that his sister Elaine, an aspiring actress, is really a witch who is casting evil spells on him and his classmate Milo.

The Frog Princess of Pelham

Rich but insecure suburban princess Chandler kisses a young man she finds princely and is instantly transformed into a frog, but the young man, Danny, picks her up and sets out to find help, which comes in unexpected forms.

Diary Of A Monster’s Son

Bradley Fentriss lives with his dad. He loves his dad. Bradley’s dad, however, is not like other dads in the neighborhood. He is very large. He is very hairy. As for his teeth, well, some people are frightened of them. But Bradley’s dad works hard at being a good father. Whether he’s helping Bradley pick out new clothes, going to parent teacher night, or doing home repairs, Mr. Fentriss looms large in his son’s life. Here is a funny story of everyday life in not so everyday family.

If This Is Love, I’ll Take Spaghetti

Nine short stories explore the trials and tribulations of teenage life.

Crush

‘Tickets for the Sweetheart Stomp are still available at the student government office, Room 114, during lunch hours or half an hour after school.’B.J. Green though, not for the first time, what a dumb name Sweetheart Stomp was for a Valentine’s Day dance. Not that she wouldn’t want to go to it, but it sounded like an event where you stomped your sweetheart unconscious. But the social bigwigs at Cutter’s Forge High were heavy into alliteration this year. They’d called the Halloween dance the Halloween Hoedown. The Thanksgiving dance was the Turkey Trot. For Christmas they’d had the Holiday Hop. And now for Valentine’s Day the dance committee had come up with the Sweetheart Stomp.B.J. sighed and looked around at her classmates. The room was buzzing with the excited whispers of predance planning. The event was a week and a day away. There would be get togethers before the dance and parties afterward, which would prolong the festivities into the early hours of February 15.B.J. wouldn’t be attending any of them…
. anything can happen, especially in high school. You can fall in love, break up with someone, discover a secret admirer’and maybe even have a few dreams come true. In the days before the big Sweetheart Stomp Valentine’s Day dance, B. J. Green finds her thoughts turning to her own love life and those of her fellow students at Cutter’s Forge High School. There’s weird Amy Porter and her equally bizarre boyfriend, Batso; Robert LaMotte, in desperate need of a big makeover and a little romance; and, of course, the handsome, mysterious Alexei Grigorov, Russian exchange student extraordinaire…
what is his deep, dark secret? That’s one mystery that B. J. wouldn’t mind solving herself !Here are nine romantic, interwoven stories that will make you laugh, cry, and maybe even fall in love. 00 01 Young Hoosier Book Award Masterlist Grds. 6 8 and 00 01 Black Eyed Susan Award Masterlist2000 List of Popular Paperbacks for YA…
anything can happen, especially in high school. You can fall in love, break up with someone, discover a secret admirer and maybe even have a few dreams come true. In the days before the big Sweetheart Stomp Valentine’s Day dance, B. J. Green finds her thoughts turning to her own love life and those of her fellow students at Cutter s Forge High School. There s weird Amy Porter and her equally bizarre boyfriend, Batso; Robert LaMotte, in desperate need of a big makeover and a little romance; and, of course, the handsome, mysterious Alexei Grigorov, Russian exchange student extraordinaire…
what is his deep, dark secret? That s one mystery that B. J. wouldn t mind solving herself !Here are nine romantic, interwoven stories that will make you laugh, cry, and maybe even fall in love.