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Jennifer Armstrong

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May 19, 1961

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http://www.jennifer-armstrong.com/

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Jennifer Armstrong learned to read and write in Switzerland, in a small school for English speaking children on the shores of Lake Zurich. The school library had no librarian and no catalog – just shelves of interesting books. She selected books on her own, read what she could, and made up the rest. It was perfect. As a result, she made her career choice – to become an author – in first grade. When she and her family returned to the U.S. she discovered that not all children wrote stories and read books, and that not all teachers thought reading real books was important. Nevertheless, she was undaunted. Within a year of leaving college she was a free-lance ghost writer for a popular juvenile book series, and before long published her first t...more

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Average rating: 3.90 · 2,567 ratings · 703 reviews · 62 distinct works

	Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance by Jennifer Armstrong, Simon Boughton (Editor) 3.95 avg rating — 963 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Kindling (Fire-us, #1) by Jennifer Armstrong, Nancy Butcher 3.79 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Keepers of the Flame (Fire-us, #2) by Jennifer Armstrong, Nancy Butcher 3.78 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Kiln (Fire-us, #3) by Jennifer Armstrong, Nancy Butcher 3.75 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Steal Away 3.47 avg rating — 126 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Once Upon a Banana by Jennifer Armstrong, David Small (Illustrator) 3.63 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Pockets 4.41 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The American Story: 100 True Tales from American History by Jennifer Armstrong, Roger Roth (Illustrator) 3.94 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Ann of the Wild Rose Inn (Wild Rose Inn, #2) 3.64 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	What a Song Can Do: 12 Riffs on the Power of Music 3.45 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	My rating:

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Series by Jennifer Armstrong

Fire-us (3 books)
by Jennifer Armstrong, Nancy Butcher

3.77 avg rating — 537 ratings

Wild Rose Inn (6 books)
by Jennifer Armstrong

3.60 avg rating — 127 ratings

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Quotes by Jennifer Armstrong

“For you can't hear Irish tunes without knowing you're Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor.”
― Jennifer Armstrong, Becoming Mary Mehan

tags: irish , music

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