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Jennifer Gennari

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January 03

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My stories come from my passion for truth and justice and my compassion for people of all ages. When I was young, I read everything, which introduced me to the different experiences people have in the world. I am an optimist at heart, and I hope my books connect us, one to another.

I'm a big reader! I hope you are one, too. By the time I was ten, I was carrying stacks of books home on a bus from the public library. Curling up with a book is still one of my favorite things to do.
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Average rating: 3.9 · 605 ratings · 137 reviews · 4 distinct worksSimilar authors
Muffled

3.98 avg rating — 328 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions
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My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer

3.77 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions
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Stifled

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings2 editions
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Spotlight on MUFFLED

Muffled by Jennifer Gennari

Did you know a blizzard was what sparked me to write MUFFLED? You can read more on Book It, a literacy program.

Also a shoutout to Travis Jonker of SLJ for naming MUFFLED the middle-grade cover of the year! Hats off to Art Director Krista Vossen and Illustrator Javier Perez. It's been capturing hearts since it was released.

Tell me what you love about the cover! And I will answer questions abou Read more of this blog post »
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A Long Game by Elizabeth McCracken
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Bite-sized wisdom about writing and craft and books and author life that ends up being incredibly insightful, cumulatively, spoonful by spoonful. Some gems:

"Plot is the electricity between events, how events lead one to the next, working the way thro
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Hattie Mae Begins Again by Sharon G. Flake
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Hattie Mae leaves home for Philadelphia (as many southern Blacks did in the 1930s) and encounters some snobby girls at the her cousin's School for Exceptional Young Ladies. But who is exceptional? This is a sweet story of Hattie's transformation, the ...more
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Labor by Mary Fariba Afsari
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Muffled by Jennifer Gennari
"This is the first book in The Band Kids Series but I have already read an Advance Reader Copy of STIFLED which comes out later this year. It was interesting to see the girls when they were a year younger and how they became friends. I relate to Ameli" Read more of this review »
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The Second Life of Snap by Erin Entrada Kelly
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An absolute gem! Set in some not-too-hard-to-envision future, the kids in the camps outside of Bountiful (where everything is as the name says) re-program a guardian robot. Snap becomes a hero, helping Zuzu and her friends. The ending makes me believ ...more
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Where Only Storms Grow by Alyssa  Colman
Where Only Storms Grow
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Tall Water by S.J. Sindu
Tall Water
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Kat's Greek Summer by Mima Tipper
Kat's Greek Summer
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The romantic story of Katina, a runner who is forced to spend a summer in Greece with her mother, brother, and a grandmother she barely knows. She butts up against some sexist gender role expectations, including that "good girls" can't be out alone a ...more
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It's All or Nothing, Vale by Andrea Beatriz Arango
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How did I miss this beautiful book from Arango? This novel-in-verse tells the story of Vale, who is recovering from an accident that shattered her leg and jeopardized her status as a champion fencer. The emotions she feels about pain, her competitive ...more
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Safe Harbor by Padma Venkatraman
Safe Harbor
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A sweet story about Geetha (whose name means song) and her mom, who move from India to the US. Her parents have split, and that, combined with bullying at school, adjusting to a new country, and missing her extended family, cause Geetha grief. Her mu ...more
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“When everything gets muddled up inside my head, there's nothing better than making pies.”
Jennifer Gennari, My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer
tags: pies

“Friends in books are the best. They sleep in the pages when I don’t want to talk and they share their days with me soundlessly—I know what makes them sad or scared or happy—when I lift their covers.”
Jennifer Gennari, Muffled

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“When everything gets muddled up inside my head, there's nothing better than making pies.”
Jennifer Gennari, My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer
tags: pies

“Please bury me in the library
With a dozen long-stemmed proses”
J. Patrick Lewis, Please Bury Me in the Library

“Friends in books are the best. They sleep in the pages when I don’t want to talk and they share their days with me soundlessly—I know what makes them sad or scared or happy—when I lift their covers.”
Jennifer Gennari, Muffled

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