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  • To All My Fans, With Love, From Sylvie

    Ellen Conford

    Paperback (Lizzie Skurnick Books, Oct. 15, 2013)
    Sylvie isn't your average girl. When she dresses up she looks eighteen, and she's spent the last three years in foster care plotting her escape to Hollywood. But as Sylvie quickly learns on the road, zigzagging across the Midwest in a stranger's two-tone blue Pontiac, life isn't like the movies. Left broke and stranded in the middle of the country, she has no choice but to accept the help of Walter Murchison, a Bible salesman who is just a little too good at selling to be trusted.Set in the 1950s against a backdrop of James Dean billboards and jukeboxes blasting Elvis, Ellen Conford's classic 1982 road novel takes place over the course of five days as we follow the comic misadventures of fifteen-year-old Sylvie on her way from New York to California, dreams of celluloid stardom gleaming in her head.Ellen Conford is one of the most prolific and successful authors of young adult fiction over the past quarter century. In addition to her popular Jenny Archer and Annabel the Actress series, Conford has written over thirty novels. Her children's book And This is Laura and the story Revenge of the Incredible Dr. Rancid and His Youthful Assistant, Jeffrey became ABC Weekend Specials, while her young adult novels Dear Lovey Hart: I Am Desperate and The Alfred G. Graebner Memorial High School Handbook of Rules and Regulations were used for CBS Schoolbreak Specials.
  • Alfred G. Graebner Memorial High School Handbook of Rules and Regulations

    Ellen Conford

    Paperback (Pocket Books, Aug. 1, 1987)
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  • And This Is Laura

    Ellen Conford

    Paperback (Lizzie Skurnick Books, Aug. 5, 2014)
    Twelve-year old Laura is an ordinary person in a family of superstars. Her beautiful older sister is a talented actress, her older brother writes and performs music, and her little brother can recite every commercial on television from memory. Her parents are gifted, too—her mother is a famous author, her father a brilliant scientist. However, everything changes for Laura when she discovers that she has the ability to see the future. Suddenly, she has popularity, attention from her parents, even media coverage. It’s all new and so great—until her visions grow dark, and Laura realizes that her gift could turn out to be a curse!
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  • A Job for Jenny Archer

    Ellen Conford

    Paperback (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, April 5, 2006)
    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.
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  • And This Is Laura

    Ellen Conford

    language (Lizzie Skurnick Books, July 14, 2014)
    And This Is Laura is the hilarious story of an average girl in a family of overachievers who learns she's not so average. Laura's oldest brother composes his own music and is a debate team champion; her sister is a star actress and bowler; her youngest brother is in the process of counting to a million. Laura? She's just an ordinary twelve-year old—that is, until she discovers that she can see the future. Suddenly, she has popularity, attention from her parents, even media coverage. It's new and great—until one day, a vision frightens her to the core.Ellen Conford is one of the most prolific and successful authors of young adult fiction. In addition to the popular Jenny Archer and Annabel the Actress series, Conford has written over thirty novels. She has received numerous awards, notably an ALA Best Book of the Year citation.
  • To All My Fans, With Love, From Sylvie

    Ellen Conford

    eBook (Lizzie Skurnick Books, Oct. 15, 2013)
    Set against a 1950s-era backdrop of James Dean billboards and jukeboxes blasting Elvis,Ellen Conford’s classic road adventure follows fifteen-year-old Sylvie as she leaves her foster home in New Jersey chasing dreams of celluloid stardom. Sylvie soon learns, however, that life isn’t like the movies as she ends up broke and alone.
  • Jenny Archer, Author

    Ellen Conford

    Paperback (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, April 5, 2006)
    This book is about Jenny Archer and her struggle to write her autobiography. Fortunately, her imagination comes to the rescue, helping her to invent a fascinating family history.
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  • A Royal Pain

    Ellen Conford

    Paperback (Point, Sept. 1, 1990)
    Because of a hospital mix-up at birth, Abby Adams, an ordinary teenager from Kansas, discovers that she really is a royal princess, the heir to the throne of Saxony Coburn, and betrothed to the creepy Prince Casimir despite her love for the commoner Geoffrey.Because of a hospital mix-up at birth, Abby Adams, an ordinary teenager from Kansas, discovers that she is really a royal princess, the heir to the throne of Saxony Coburn, and betrothed to the creepy Prince Casimir despite her love for the commoner Geoffrey
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  • If This is Love, I'll Take Spaghetti

    Ellen Conford

    Mass Market Paperback (Scholastic, Aug. 1, 1984)
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  • Crush: Stories by Ellen Conford

    Ellen Conford

    Paperback (HarperCollins, Jan. 6, 1999)
    "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. 00-01 Young Hoosier Book Award Masterlist (Grds. 6-8) and 00-01 Black-Eyed Susan Award Masterlist 2000 List of Popular Paperbacks for YA
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  • The Frog Princess of Pelham

    Ellen Conford

    Paperback (Little Brown & Co, April 1, 1997)
    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.
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  • Hail, Hail, Camp Timberwood

    Ellen Conford

    Mass Market Paperback (Starfire, June 1, 1987)
    Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood
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