It All Began with Jane Eyre: Or, the Secret Life of Franny Dillman

by Sheila Greenwald

Book Overview

Avid reading and a vivid imagination get Franny Dillman into hot water when she turns from the classics to modern teenage novels. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316326712
• ISBN13: 9780316326711
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Spoof on teen help books--good reading for Middle Schoolers.

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!