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Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

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Jennifer Salvato Doktorski is an award-winning author of five YA novels, HOW MY SUMMER WENT UP IN FLAMES, FAMOUS LAST WORDS, a Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year, THE SUMMER AFTER YOU & ME, a YALSA Teens' Top 10, AUGUST & EVERYTHING AFTER and the forthcoming FINDING NORMAL 2025.

Her first paid gig was writing obituaries for the North Jersey Herald & News, where she developed a life-long taste for coffee, news, biting sarcasm, and irreverent humor. She also worked as a speech writer, bank teller, ghostwriter, bookkeeper in a lampshade factory, pet shop clerk, and music zine editor.

She lives with her family in New Jersey and spends her summers “down the shore,” where everything's always all right.
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	How My Summer Went Up in Flames 3.81 avg rating — 6,593 ratings — published 2013 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	August and Everything After 3.51 avg rating — 2,544 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Summer After You and Me 3.69 avg rating — 2,184 ratings — published 2015 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Famous Last Words 3.72 avg rating — 922 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Somewhere Summer: 26 Kisses; How My Summer Went Up in Flames by Anna Michels (Goodreads Author), Jennifer Salvato Doktorski (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 115 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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My fifth YA novel "Finding Normal" has won the Acheven Book Award for young adult fiction and will be published by Fitzroy Books in 2025. Thrilled that this novel has found the right home.

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Woke Up Like This

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“I know women are supposed to stand on their own and all. I get that. But every once in a while it doesn't hurt to wish for a fairy godmother, a little magic, and a happy ending.”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, How My Summer Went Up in Flames

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“First I lost my heart. Then I lost my mind.”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, How My Summer Went Up in Flames

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“I don't know how long we stay that way, but we watch the sun go down together. The giant, burnt-orange sphere sinks towards the horizon, coloring the rock layers until it's gone and the canyon is covered in shadow.”
― Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, How My Summer Went Up in Flames

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The Martian

by Andy Weir

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The Sound of Glass

by Karen White

16 votes, 24.6%

The Witches: Salem, 1692

by Stacy Schiff

14 votes, 21.5%

How My Summer Went Up in Flames

by Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

10 votes, 15.4%

When the Moon is Low

by Nadia Hashimi

4 votes, 6.2%

The Paying Guests

by Sarah Waters

4 votes, 6.2%

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“In the end, I go where I always go when I need information on something baffling, poisonous, or terrifying: the library.”
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