A Job for Jenny Archer - Softcover

Conford, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316014842 ISBN 13: 9780316014847

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Ellen Conford is a well-known young adult novelist whose many books have won numerous awards. She lives in Great Neck, NY.

Diane Palmisciano has illustrated many books for children, including Hannah and the Whistling Tea Kettle. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her dog, Daisy.

Erik Brooks is the author and illustrator of many books for children, including the Washington State Book Award winner, "Polar Opposites", and the CBC/IRA Children s Choices Award winner, "The Practically Perfect Pajamas". His most recent illustrated book, "Sea Star Wishes", was selected as the July 2013 Book of the Month by US Children s Poet Laureate, Kenn Nesbitt. From his home in Winthrop, Washington, Erik also writes and draws "Harts Pass", a weekly comic strip for the "Methow Valley News", visits schools and libraries around the country, and plays in the woods like a wolverine! erikbrooks.blogspot.com

From School Library Journal

Gr 2-4 Welcome, Jenny Archer! Join Adler's ``Cam Jansen'' (Viking), Hur witz' ``Nora and Teddy'' (Morrow), and Giff's ``Kids of the Polk Street School'' (Dell). This initial offering by Conford in a proposed series of first ``chapter books'' about Jenny; her best friend, Wilson Wynn; and her very large and friendly black dog, Barkley, will disappear so quickly from the li brary's fiction shelves that it might be wise to order duplicates. Conford's wit ty, humorous style is in evidence from the first page, when readers learn that Jenny isn't really poor; she just has ``rich ideas.'' The subsequent chapters describe Jenny's scheme to raise enough cash to buy her mother a fur coat. These include a neighborhood dog-training business and her attempts, almost too successful, to sell the Ar cher's house without her parents' knowledge. Independent money-mak ing is a theme popular with older read ers in books such as Pfeffer's Kid Pow er (Watts, 1977), Van Leeuween's Benjy in Business (Dial, 1983), and Springstubbs' Eunice Gottlieb and the Unwhitewashed Truth About Life (De lacorte, 1987). Younger readers will be entertained by Jenny's bright ideas and the unanticipated problems she creates. The further adventures of this feisty heroine will be eagerly awaited by all. Martha Rosen, Edgewood School, Scarsdale, N.Y.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0316014842
• ISBN 13: 9780316014847
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80