As it says - as a pre-teen, this was one of my favorites. I re-read it a lot. The concept of clairvoyance in an everyday girl fascinated me

This book is a wonderfull work of fiction. The story tells how an average child deals with the feelings she has of being shadowed by the accomplishments of her family, and dealing with the extrodinary gift she develops. The story is entertaining, and suspensefull. All in all, a delightfull book for all ages. This book was also made into a week-end special entitled: THE GIRL WITH E.S.P

this book is awesome, I totally swear. It is interesting, neat, and imaginative. The concept of a girl who can read minds is amazing. I totally and completely 100% reccomend this book to all people who love to read! Especially fiction books.

From the moment I started reading this book, I fell in love with it. I wish more books could be as well written as this book was. Right when I started reading "To All My Fans, WIth Love, From Sylvie," I kept on reading because I was hooked on it. Every chapter ended with an event that caused me to want to read on and on.

I really dont understand how the title fits with the book; the book was not what it seemed to be. From reading the back cover, I thought this book would be a sweet story about a pretty, teenage girl in Hollywood trying to fulfill her dream of getting her big break in acting. In no way was this book as sweet as I thought it would be. Though that would have been somewhat interesting to read, the actual story was a lot better. It was actually about a pretty, teenage girl leaving her home, with her foster parents, whom she really didnt get along well with, trying to get to Hollywood, where she would try to become famous and all the challenges she faces along the way. I really got into the book's suspenseful turns and swerves. Sylvie, the pretty, teenage girl, is the main character inthe story. It is almost unbelievavle how brave she was throughout all the problems she faced. She meets various people, though she realizes she cannot trust everyone.

There were truly great lessons learned from this book. I reccommend it to any mature reader. Sylvie learned what love really is and you can, too if you read this book. You'll really feel for Sylvie.

It was good....

I'll never break your heart i'll never make you cry i'd rather die, than live without you i'll give you all of me honey that's no lie i'll never break your heart i'll never make you cry i'd rather die than live without you i'll give you all of me honey that's no liiiiiiiiiie!

It's long, but wonderful! Ellen Conford is a wonderful writer. I have read most of her books, but this is the best one yet! Read it now!

I liked the book titled "The Frog Princess of Pelham" written by female author Ellen Conford. It's about a teen girl who doesn't think anybody actually really loves or even likes her, which is mostly true. She's an orphan, who has lots of money, not to mention a heated swimming pool. She has two girl friends who she thinks only likes her because of her pool. One day at school, the boy she likes asks her to kiss him. Shocked and surprised, she does, but when she opens her eyes from the kiss she finds she has become a small, green, frog! They try to find ways to change her back to her human self, and end up on television talk shows. I love the ending to this story, because it has to do with the army and some scientists, but it's really interesting. The whole thing is. Then, later, the lead girl (main character) has a sleepover at her house for her two girl friends. They prove to her how they don't care about her pool but like her for herself, by not bring their swimsuits with them. They're real, trueblue friends. But the thing I like is...that in fact, they were her real friends the whole time. She just didn't pay enough attention to know it, I guess. Very good work done by Ellen Conford, an author I like. The bad things in this short story, though, were the little bit or some swearing. A must-read. "The Frog Prince" fairytale with a twist-it's now the "Frog Princess" of Pelham.

I liked the book titled "The Frog Princess of Pelham" written by female author Ellen Conford. It's about a teen girl who doesn't think anybody actually really loves or even likes her, which is mostly true. She's an orphan, who has lots of money, not to mention a heated swimming pool. She has two girl friends who she thinks only likes her because of her pool. One day at school, the boy she likes asks her to kiss him. Shocked and surprised, she does, but when she opens her eyes from the kiss she finds she has become a small, green, frog! They try to find ways to change her back to her human self, and end up on television talk shows. I love the ending to this story, because it has to do with the army and some scientists, but it's really interesting. The whole thing is. Then, later, the lead girl (main character) has a sleepover at her house for her two girl friends. They prove to her how they don't care about her pool but like her for herself, by not bring their swimsuits with them. They're real, trueblue friends. But the thing I like is...that in fact, they were her real friends the whole time. She just didn't pay enough attention to know it, I guess. Very good work done by Ellen Conford, an author I like. The bad things in this short story, though, were the little bit or some swearing. A must-read. "The Frog Prince" fairytale with a twist-it's now the "Frog Princess" of Pelham.

I love this book, probably more than Dear Lovey Hart, because it deals with a successful young lady, talented and in love. She's trying to do the right thing with her investigative reporting AND to make things a little more complicated, her boyfriend is the editor/her investigative partner. When her boyfriend shallowly falls for Purdie (which, never quite made sense to me, but I guess he really is only 16), Carrie has to deal with how to take care of numero uno, even when her heart breaks. Only problem with the story is the ending, in which she hardly pushes back to Chip about how badly he treated her. Chip's a nice guy and all, but he was an idiot and all we can hope is that he comes through on all the making up he needs to do!

Conford, however, does make up for this in other books where she writes of her heroines pursuing shallow men when the good guys are right in front of them.

I enjoyed this book because it is very realistic. Girls do this kind of thing every day.Carrie realizes that Prudie is trying to take her man she trys to find the best information for the school newspaper ,that her boyfriend is editor of. She wants him to realize that she is good. She digs up some good evidence or at least she thought it was good. She risks getting into trouble to make her boyfriend realize that she is better than Prudie.

Probably this book just wasn't my style, but I found it cheesy at best. I like humorous crime fiction and looked forward to making Dortmunder's acquaintance, only to discover this book really wasn't all that much about him, but spent more time dwelling on various FBI agents and bumbling policemen. I was hoping to follow Dortmunder through a series of escapades, but after the initial burglary, nothing much happened.

However, the book was short and the writing style excellent. Westlake certainly has enormous talent. While I can't recommend you rush out and read this book, if you like Lawrence Block's humorous books, you might very well like Why Me.

John Dortmunder still operates with plenty of luck going his way. Unfortunately, it's still all bad. From the master of sticky situations and the brilliant, yet doomed to failure plans to overcome them, comes another Westlake farce highlighting the incredibly unlucky Dortmunder.

John inadvertently steals a large and very important ruby and sapphire ring that had in turn, just been stolen before it was to be given to Turkey. The resulting manhunt and shaking down of every known criminal in New York has not only the NYPD and the FBI on his tail, but also every known criminal in New York wants a piece of him too. So the question is, how can Dortmunder evade the police, the Feds, some terrorists and the entire criminal element of New York, and still somehow come up smelling of roses with a cleared name? How indeed!

In an ironic twist, compared to his adventures in The Hot Rock where he couldn't get hold of a valuable jewel no matter how ingenious the plan, Dortmunder know finds himself racking his brain trying to get rid of a similarly valuable jewel - safely, anyway.

Once again, Westlake provides a humorous story where, if anything can go wrong then it will. The predicament that Dortmunder finds himself in is typical of his unfortunate run of luck and is the reason that these books are so enjoyable.

This book will delight anyone who finds the "value-added" features of telephones (such as call waiting, call forwarding, caller ID, and answering machines) to be annoying. John Dortmunder does, too, especially after his friend, Andy Kelp, becomes addicted to all of these features.

John Dortmunder is your basic everyday, unlucky, but hard-working burglar. In Why Me, he spots a sign on Skoukakis Credit Jewelers in South Ozone Park in Queens that the owner is away on vacation. Noting that the door's alarm box is an easy one to by-pass, he plans a late night return trip. While alarms ring in the distance, he's started when a car pulls up in front, and someone climbs out. He dives behind a display counter just before someone opens the door. The entrant is followed by more men, and they all talk in a foreign language. The safe door is opened and closed. Eventually, they leave.

With good fortune, he finds that the safe is also an easy one to handle. Soon, he has it open, and starts removing the contents. He took some diamond bracelets, a few sets of earrings, an assortment of jeweled brooches, and a few rings. He notices a single box with a ring set with a suspiciously large red stone. "Now why would any jeweler pub a fake stone like this in his safe?" He decides to take it along, and let a fence tell him if it's valuable. That turns out to be an enormous mistake.

The stone is actually a historically important one, the Byzantine Fire, which has just been stolen by a band of Greeks from its courier who is taking it to be returned to the Turkish government.

The rest of the story involves the consequences of this unwitting heist. The heat is really on, and only Andy Kelp and his girl friend May are on Dortmunder's side as he tries to avoid the consequences of being the object of an international manhunt.

Dortmunder quickly gives up on the notion of trying to make any money from the gem. After all, every fence in New York is being watched and no one would buy it. He decides to give it back, but the police won't cooperate. They want his head on the wall. Now, how will Dortmunder get out of this one? That's the mystery of this story.

In typical fashion for a Dortmunder story, there's enormous humor about the stupidity of life . . . and an ironical twist to almost every situation. As with most stories in the series, there's a scene where barflies mangle words, quotes and ideas in very original and hilarious fashion.

This story is about as simple as the Dortmunder stories get, but it is all the more appealing for its intensification of the overhanging problem of how you get out from between a rock and a hard place.

After you finish this story, think about some time when you were faced with a seemingly impossible situation. How did you find a solution? How can that solution help you with other difficult situations in the future?

I have read this book time and time again. Ellen Conford's characters are incredibly realistic and easy to relate to. Since I attended several camps each summer of my childhood and youth, 'Hail, Hail, Camp Timberwood' became the experience to strive for. Like most girls, I too wanted a romantic camp relationship! The only way to express how much I love this novel is to confess that this was one of the books I brought with me to college! When life becomes too hectic or complicated, I enjoy returning to Conford's world where average worries include adolescent crushes and camp food.

My friend gave my this book to read before we went to Camp Classen on a school trip. Her grandmother works at a library and gave it to her. She was dying to read it and told me I should when she finished. I simply loved it. The author put emotions in it that were exactly like those of a real teenager.
In this book, Melanie is leaving her parents, with whom she thinks of as best friends, and goes to Camp Timberwood. She meets a good friend there and an enemy. But when a little boy she meets in swimming class sends her on an errand she comes face to face with romance. You can not put this book down. It is completely mesmerizing. You will absolutely love it!

I am 31 years old. I remember this book from when I was in my early teens. I wanted to purchase a book for my niece and immediately remembered this classic!

Once I gave this book to my niece, it became a favorite of hers, as well! The characters are so vivid! I never had the pleasure of going to camp when I was young, but reading this book made me feel as though I were there!

Friendship, young love, standing up for yourself, growing up...all these topics are wrapped nicely in an unforgettable novel!

Trust me, if I remember this book 17 years later, it must be something special!

I give this book my highest recommendation! 5 stars out of 5!

This book containing seven different short stories, explains how being young and being a teenager can be comlicated, but also fun and exciting! The stories talk about tenagers in love, and how they get on eachothers nerves. It talks about going to school and many other interesting stories, talking about teenagers and their everyday life.

I really liked this book, because it is based on a really good relationship and then they get into something. Then she says get lost and if you want to know the whole story then read and enjoy.Also if you enjoy couple books you will like this book.

I read, I Love You, I Hate You, Get Lost. This book is about teenage girls that like boys, hate them, and then like them again. I like this book because you want to know what happens next. The problem that the characters have are very similar to the ones that people do really have in their teenage years. A part of the book that I really didn't like is, that some of the problems are very fake . They really have no reason behind them. I also have compared this book to many other books I have read. I rank this story the highest. I Love You, I Hate You, Get Lost, is my favorite of them all because there are lessons taught, and I enjoy reading books that are funny, somewhat serious, have teenagers, friends, and a good endings.

Out of nostalgia, I am going through amazon.com, searching for books that particularly stood out from my middle school years...this book was one of them (along with Alfred G. Graebner Memorial High School Handbook of Rules and Regulations, also by Conford, and also out of print - tragedy!). Ellen Conford had such a way of identifying with her readers.

In this book, the protagonist finds a lamp, which of course, when she rubs it, produces a genie that grants her every desire. Or so she thinks. For example, when she wishes for the "perfect man," a guy suddenly pops up in her bedroom, bearing flowers in hand.

So saddened am I by the gradual disappearance of my childhood books such as this that I am going to try to track them all down and buy them for my future children. Other "classics" that are out of print (grrr) are This Time of Darkness by H.M. Hoover and the entire Trixie Belden series. Sniff sniff.

I read this book for the first time probably in third grade, the last time I read it was probably in 6th grade, I'm 18 now and can still remember almost every word, it is definetly one of my favorite books ever

When reading this book I started to get bored, but when I got in the middle it was good. I think teens should read this book. Many of the young people today are looking for love. When they read this book they would understand love better. I feel that the teenagers today could relate to the characters in the book. This is a great book. Even though it might be old, it still relates to teens of today.

I think The things I did for love is a great book. I enjoyed reading. It's about a girl named Stephanie who thinks she's too tall. Her best friend sets her up with Bash (a biker). They like each other alot. They have alot of problems but, at the end they stay together.

Jenny Archer is a character in a series of books written by Ellen Conford. In each of the books, Jenny becomes involved in some kind of adventure. In this particular book, Jenny's elementary school class is trying to raise money, collecting cans to buy new video equipment. Not only is Jenny interested in raising money, buy she wants to direct the can collecting with some quirky schemes of her own. She risks failure in both friendship and raising the money, but somehow Jenny always pulls through. This book is a good reading level for 3rd-4th graders depending on interest. Ellen Conford is a wonderful children's author.