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Jennifer Gennari

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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: 3.91 · 631 ratings · 144 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors
Muffled

4.01 avg rating — 344 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions
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My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer

3.77 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions
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Stifled

4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings — 3 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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The Moon Without Stars by Chanel Miller
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An authentic seventh grade friends book, complete with the nice boy you've known forever to the mean girl and her clique. Miller really captured the mind of Luna, who keeps thinking she's being adventurous/trying new experiences until too late she re ...more
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The Creepening of Dogwood House by Eden Royce
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Creepy in a perfect middle-grade way! After his mother's death, Roddie has moved in with his aunt and uncle, after his mother's death. There is something definitely up with the house, and the hoodoo traditions helps solve the mystery of his mother's ...more
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The Magician of Tiger Castle by Louis Sachar
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Picked this up because of the author -- an interesting story with a novel structure. The magician tells the tale from the present day back 400 years, so we know what's coming. The princess and the scribe love story kept me reading. ...more
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Sisters Alone by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
Sisters Alone
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Two sisters, two POVs, and a page-turning story that throws some tough lumps to Rama and Leena who are supposed to go on a school ski trip while their dad travels on a business trip. But the girls are grieving their mother, who died in a car crash, a ...more
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Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Atmosphere
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Thrilling read with incredible descriptions of the universe, our place in it, and about love (both romantic and maternal). Set in the 1980s, it also showcases women breaking into NASA to become astronauts.
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A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat
A First Time for Everything
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An amazing graphic novel that deserves all the accolades! This European trip memoir is vulnerable, funny, and brave about growing up and meeting people who change you.
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The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett
The Calamity Club
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By the end of this doorstop novel, I was rooting so hard for Birdie, even Mrs. Tartt, and Charlie and her daughter Meg. Stockett has written a novel that makes you feel the Depression and the cruelty of laws (against "feebleminded" women, orphans etc ...more
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Sunshine by Marion Dane Bauer
Sunshine
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An adventure story like no other -- Ben is spending a week with his mother on a remote island in Minnesota, with no electricity or running water. With him is his imaginary friend, a dog. Bauer takes on a tough topic (when mothers leave) and gives us ...more
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The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli by Karina Yan Glaser
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Adventure, animals, and intrepid kids -- this is a great story of Han Yu and a great friendship with a great poet during the Tang dynasty and the story of Luli and her family in Chinatown in NYC during the great depression. In alternating chapters, w ...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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