Ellen Conford

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  • Bibliography:
    46 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1973
  • Latest Book:
    June 2013
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Full Series List in Order

Annabel the Actress

Annabel the Actress Starring in Gorilla My Dreams (Sep-2000)
Annabel the Actress Starring in Hound of the Barkervilles (Jun-2003)
Annabel the Actress Starring in Camping It Up (Jun-2013)
Annabel the Actress Starring in Just a Little Extra (Jun-2013)

Jenny Archer

1 - A Job For Jenny Archer (Apr-2006)
2 - A Case For Jenny Archer (Mar-2006)
3 - Jenny Archer, Author (Apr-2006)
4 - What's Cooking, Jenny Archer? (Apr-2006)

Book List in Order: 46 titles

  • Felicia the Critic

    • / General Fiction
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    Felicia Kershenbaum has a knack for recognizing things that are wrong -- and she has no qualms about voicing her opinions to anyone within earshot. She's well on her way to alienating all of her family members and friends before her mother explains...

  • Dreams of Victory

  • Me and the Terrible Two

    • / General Fiction
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    Those Crazy Twins! When her best friend moves away, Dorrie is sure that life will never be the same. To add to her woes, two creepy boys become her new neighbors. Haskell and Conrad are identical twins, and Dorrie soon decides that they are her mort...

  • The Luck of Pokey Bloom

  • And This Is Laura

    • / General Fiction
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    In the midst of her talented family, twelve-year-old Laura Hoffman feels like a rock among gems. Unlike her brother the composer and her sister the actress, Laura has no special ability -- until one night during dinner she discovers she has The Gif...

  • Eugene the Brave

  • Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood

    FIRST SUMMER AT CAMP Melanie hates the idea of camp, but she soon makes friends and finds it much more fun than she expected -- although she has to cope with one trauma after another! Mel doesn't even like to put her face in the water -- but ...

  • Revenge of the Incredible Dr. Rancid and His Youthful Assistant, Jeffrey

  • Anything for a Friend



  • Seven Days to a Brand-New Me

    What can you do when you're dull, dull, dull, and Adam Holmquist, the boy of your dreams, is blond, tan, and practically a Greek god? Maddy Kemper, with the aid of Dr. Dwayne Dudley's book Seven Days to a Brand-New You!, begins an all-out campaign --...

  • We Interrupt This Semester for an Important Bulletin

    Carrie takes up investigative reporting in an attempt to impress Chip, the editor of the school newspaper, but finds herself coping with both professional and personal crises when a southern belle sets her eye on Chip...

  • Dear Lovey Hart, I Am Desperate

  • To All My Fans, With Love, from Sylvie

    SYLVIE IS PRETTY, FULL OF DREAMS, AND ALMOST GROWN UP... ALMOST... At fifteen, Sylvie looks eighteen when she dresses up. And more than anything, she wants to be a movie star. There has to be something better than life in a foster home, so she sets ...

  • If This Is Love, I'll Take Spaghetti

    • / General Fiction
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    How can there be so many problems when you fall in love?! Maybe you fall in love with a boy who only talks to you about geometry... or you see your boyfriend at the movies with a gorgeous girl wearing jeans so tight they look like they were painte...

  • Lenny Kandell: Smart Aleck

  • A Royal Pain

    • / General Fiction
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    Being a princess is tough but someone's got to do it! Fifteen-year-old Abby Adams of Kansas was born in a tiny European country, where she and another baby got accidentally switched. Now that the mix-up has been discovered, she's on her way back t...

  • Strictly for Laughs

  • Why Me?

    TALK ABOUT GIRL TROUBLE! Since G. G. Grafman bought a copy of HOW TO MAKE MEN CRAZY, she has been making Hobie's life miserable. G. G. definitely is not the girl of Hobie's dreams. Never mind that she's got Orphan Annie hair and the social skills of ...

  • Alfred G. Graebner Memorial High School Handbook of Rules and Regulations

    WELCOME TO THE ALFRED G. GRAEBNER MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL! Where Julie has to cope with: Gym at 8:10 and lunch at 9:30 A sex ed class that raises more questions than it answers The police who think she's selling stolen goods An attractive uppercl...



  • You Never Can Tell

  • The Things I Did for Love

  • Genie with the Light Blue Hair

    What does Jeannie Warren do on her fifteenth birthday when a blue genie unfurls from an antique lamp in her bedroom? She screams-but only after she makes a wish! The lamp is a gift from her aunt and uncle, and Jeannie can't imagine what she'll do w...

  • Can Do, Jenny Archer

  • Jenny Archer to the Rescue

  • Loving Someone Else

    As the well-paid companion, house cleaner, and chauffeur to two eccentric elderly sisters, Holly Campion must endure her employers' idiosyncrasies and enjoy the attentions of their older, handsome nephew and next-door-neighbor Pete. Reprint....

  • Dear Mom, Get Me out of Here!

  • Nibble, Nibble, Jenny Archer

    When she appears in a television commercial, Jenny Archer envisions great success until she discovers that the snack food she eats in the advertisement is actually for gerbils. By the author of Dear Mom, Get Me Out of Here! ...

  • Get the Picture, Jenny Archer?

    Using the second-hand camera given to her by her grandparents, Jenny Archer sets out to win a local photographic contest by taking pictures of everything and everyone around her, an enterprise that has unexpected repercussions....

  • A Night to Remember

    Four stories, both humorous and moving, by four leading young adult writers, capture the trials and troubles of finding the right date for the prom, with some help from the school newspaper, a little science, and the boy next door. Original....



  • My Sister the Witch

  • Norman Newman and the Werewolf of Walnut Street

  • See You in September

    Four teen summer romances follow themes of first kisses, sunsets at the beach, love at first sight, and more, and include the writings of Katherine Applegate, Ellen Conford, Alane Ferguson, and Lee Wardlaw. Original....

  • The Frog Princess of Pelham

    One kiss from the most popular boy in school and Chandler turns into a frog! Once upon a time, there was a suburban "princess" named Chandler. She had everything money could buy -- except what she really wanted. An orphan since the age of nine, Ch...

  • 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 D...

  • Diary of a Monster's Son

    When I wake up this morning, I hear my father whistling in the bathroom. The door is open, so I go in. He is standing in front of the mirror, combing his hair. Good morning, Bradley," he says. "Isn't this a beautiful day?” I wish I had hair lik...

  • Annabel the Actress Starring in Gorilla My Dreams

    Annabel the Actress
    Ready-for-Chapters

    Meet Annabel: Actress Extraordinaire Nobody can steal this girl's spotlight Not even the twerp Lowell Boxer, who steals Annabel's mask as she makes her way to her first acting job. This aspiring actress has what it takes to play a convincing goril...

  • Annabel the Actress Starring In

  • Annabel the Actress Starring in Hound of the Barkervilles

    Annabel the Actress
    Ready-for-Chapters

    MYSTERY! SUSPENSE! AND A SLOBBERING DOG NAMED BINKY? Finally! Annabel the Actress has been offered a real part in a real play. Now she'll be able to show the world her true talent! But a drooly canine for a costar, embarrassing pink bunny pajamas for...

  • Hound of the Barkervilles

    MYSTERY! SUSPENSE! AND A SLOBBERING DOG NAMED BINKY?!

    Finally! Annabel the Actress has been offered a real part in a real play. Now she'll be able to show the world her true talent!

    But a drooly canine for a costar, embarrassing pink bunny pajam...



  • A Case For Jenny Archer

    Jenny Archer - 2

  • Jenny Archer, Author

    Jenny Archer - 3

  • A Job For Jenny Archer

    Jenny Archer - 1

    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....

  • What's Cooking, Jenny Archer?

    Jenny Archer - 4

    Jenny Archer is back! Follow Jenny''s comic mishaps as she goes into business preparing lunches for friends at school.
    Can Jenny turn a few bag lunches into a profitable catering career? Jenny Archer can''t stand the lunches served at scho...

  • Annabel the Actress Starring in Camping It Up

    Annabel the Actress

    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...

  • Annabel the Actress Starring in Just a Little Extra

    Annabel the Actress

    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 stay...

  • I Love You, I Hate You, Get Lost

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

Award-Winning Books by Ellen Conford

Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood
1981 Young Reader's Choice Award -- Children's


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ellen Conford has published 46 books.

Ellen Conford does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Annabel the Actress Starring in Camping It Up, was published in June 2013.

The first book by Ellen Conford, Felicia the Critic, was published in January 1973.

Yes. Ellen Conford has 2 series.
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