A Case for Jenny Archer - Softcover
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Although her initial sleuthing efforts prove fruitless--not to mention embarrassing--the irrepressible Jenny Archer is determined to prove her suspicions when she spies something she knows isn't right.
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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.
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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
Grade 2-4-- It's summer vacation and Jenny Archer is bored. A trip to the library supplies her with not only an armful of Missy Martin mysteries, but an idea toward a summer occupation as well. After all, if Missy can rid the world of dangerous criminals, why can't Jenny? In true sleuth fashion, Jenny, her friend Wilson, and Barkley, the dog, undertake an investigation that alerts the police to some local thugs trying to make off with the neighbors' furniture in a fake moving van. The crime is thwarted, thanks to Jenny Archer, a real-life junior detective. This lots-of-fun advanced easy reader contains eight chapters, all about three pages long, with large, clear print, and lots of white space. Its familiar but never dull vocabulary and simple sentence structure present an ideal next-up book for primary grade readers who've outgrown the easies. The children here are lively, the adults funny, wise, and supportive. The plot cleverly follows standard mystery story conventions, such as the faithful sidekick and the use of disguises, and neatly transfers the actions and conclusions of the fictional Missy to those of the real Jenny. A minor flaw is that the illustrations fail to capture the spirit of the adventure. Any library in need of a well-written adventure that will take readers by the hand and lead them to a place where book fantasies are allowed to come true shouldn't be without this playful mystery.
- Joanne Aswell, Long Valley Middle School, N.Y.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Joanne Aswell, Long Valley Middle School, N.Y.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherPerfection Learning
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0812488830
- ISBN 13 9780812488838
- BindingPaperback
- IllustratorDiane Palmisciano
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