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Jennifer Armstrong

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in The United States

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: 4.11 · 22,793 ratings · 2,831 reviews · 93 distinct works • Similar authors

	Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and The Endurance 3.95 avg rating — 3,912 ratings — published 1998 — 23 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 Kindling (Fire-us, #1) by Jennifer Armstrong, Nancy Butcher 3.78 avg rating — 597 ratings — published 2002 — 7 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 Keepers of the Flame (Fire-us, #2) by Jennifer Armstrong, Nancy Butcher 3.90 avg rating — 361 ratings — published 2002 — 5 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
	Steal Away 3.59 avg rating — 389 ratings — published 1992 — 11 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 Kiln (Fire-us, #3) by Jennifer Armstrong, Nancy Butcher 3.87 avg rating — 338 ratings — published 2004 — 7 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
	Once Upon a Banana by Jennifer Armstrong, David Small (Illustrator) 3.63 avg rating — 316 ratings — published 2006 — 9 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 American Story: 100 True Tales from American History by Jennifer Armstrong, Roger Roth (Illustrator) 4.11 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2006 — 4 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
	Pockets 4.28 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 1998 — 5 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
	Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat by Jennifer Armstrong, Mary GrandPré (Illustrator) 4.18 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1993 — 7 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
	Magnus at the Fire by Jennifer Armstrong, Owen Smith (Illustrator) 4.17 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2005 — 4 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

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Series by Jennifer Armstrong

Step Into Reading: Step 1 - Ready to Read (5 books)
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3.98 avg rating — 1,862 ratings

Fire-us (3 books)
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Nancy Butcher

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Wild Rose Inn (6 books)
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3.78 avg rating — 424 ratings

Becoming Mary Mehan (2 books)
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3.44 avg rating — 102 ratings

Pets, Inc. (4 books)
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3.50 avg rating — 6 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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“But if you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going. That was the thought which sailed us through the hurricane and tugged us up and down those mountains... and when we got to the whaling station, it was the thought of those comrades which made us so mad with joy that the reaction beats all effort to describe it. We didn't so much feel that we were safe as that they were saved.”
― Jennifer Armstrong, Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and The Endurance

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