Jenny Archer, Author [Paperback]

Ellen Conford (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 7 and up | Series: Jenny Archer

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.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

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.

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From School Library Journal

Grade 2-4-- The latest addition to the series is competent and entertaining. Jenny's first composition, wherein she describes some of her games of make-believe, serves as a point of departure for her next venture in writing. The assignment is to write an autobiography, and Jenny is concerned with holding her teacher's interest. Her solution: be creative. She invents humorous, in fact, wildly unbelievable situations anticipating with glee the praise she expects to earn. However, she comes down hard when Mrs. Pike is not at all appreciative. With a little explanatory help from her mother, Jenny writes her own--although boring--life story and wins her way back to her teacher's good graces. Jenny is a kid to like, enthusiastic and eager to learn. Her concerns about school work are true to the age group. Conford does just what Mrs. Pike praises Jenny for doing: she says "a lot in just a few words." Students will want their own teachers to read this to them and then to read it again on their own. --Ruth Semrau, Lovejoy School, McKinney, TX
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; 1st edition (April 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316153532
• ISBN-13: 978-0316153539
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.1 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,096,741 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars book was too well loved, January 27, 2008

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This review is from: Jenny Archer, Author (Paperback)

I ordered a book from this seller for my niece. It turned out to be a library book that had a ripped cover and had obviously been read quite thoroughly many times. Not what I expected from the description. All the words were there and my niece enjoyed the book, but I was surprised at its condition.