IT ALL BEGAN J EYRE (Laurel Leaf Books)

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Summary: for paranoid bookish girls of all ages
Review: I read this book again in college, ten years from the time I first checked it out of my local library. To my delight, it was as I remembered and more--bracingly funny and touching. It's about a girl who reads Jane Eyre in the closet with a bag of potato chips; in the light of day, her hyperactive imagination leads her to view her family and friends as all part of an insidious plotline that tends to borrow from Jane Eyre. This book made me read Jane Eyre, which I love, but I love this book too for its good humor and its sensitivity. Thanks to amazon and the power of advanced search (I could only remember the word franny).

Rating:
Summary: for paranoid bookish girls of all ages
Review: I read this book again in college, ten years from the time I first checked it out of my local library. To my delight, it was as I remembered and more--bracingly funny and touching. It's about a girl who reads Jane Eyre in the closet with a bag of potato chips; in the light of day, her hyperactive imagination leads her to view her family and friends as all part of an insidious plotline that tends to borrow from Jane Eyre. This book made me read Jane Eyre, which I love, but I love this book too for its good humor and its sensitivity. Thanks to amazon and the power of advanced search (I could only remember the word franny).

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Summary: Spoof on teen help books--good reading for Middle Schoolers.
Review: This is a good book for the Middle School set to read. It's about a girl named Franny Dillman who creates an interesting life based on teen problem books that her mother brings home for her. Franny's mother is concerned about Franny reading "adult" books in her closet by flashlight such as Jane Eyre. Franny feels as though she has a boring, tranquil life so to shake it up and make things more interesting, she imagines her life along the books she reads. She makes her life parallel to the plots and the people she goes to school with into characters out of Jane Eyre.

Her mother, wanting to help Franny adjust properly with the real world and her imagination gives her teen appropriate books that just make matters worse, but the situations are hilarious!