Lynne Jonell





Lynne Jonell

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Little Falls, Minnesota, The United States

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Lynne Jonell is the author of three novels and seven picture books for children, published by Henry Holt and Penguin/Putnam. Her first novel, Emmy & the Incredible Shrinking Rat, won the Minnesota Book Award, and her most recent novel, The Secret of Zoom, is a Junior Library Guild Selection. Her books have received starred reviews in Horn Book, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Sesame Street Parents, and have been published in eight languages. She teaches writing at the Loft Literary Center, is married and has two sons, and lives in Plymouth, Minnesota. She will launch a new chapter book series with Random House in 2010, beginning with Hamster Magic, and is currently working on the third in the Emm...more


Average rating: 3.83 · 2,301 ratings · 512 reviews · 13 distinct works
Emmy and the Incredible Shr...
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 1,576 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions
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The Secret of Zoom
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 315 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
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Emmy and the Home for Troub...
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions
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Hamster Magic
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3.21 of 5 stars 3.21 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions
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Emmy and the Rats in the Be...
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3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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I Need a Snake
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
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Mommy Go Away!
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions
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When Mommy Was Mad
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2002
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Lawn Mower Magic (A Steppin...
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3.18 of 5 stars 3.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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It's My Birthday, Too!
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
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“If my love must be a rodent, then shall I be anything but a rat?”
Lynne Jonell, Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat

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