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Jennifer Armstrong

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May 19, 1961

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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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Jennifer Armstrong’s books

Average rating: 4.12 · 23,925 ratings · 2,955 reviews · 97 distinct works • Similar authors

	Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and The Endurance 3.95 avg rating — 4,396 ratings — published 1998 — 28 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 3.80 avg rating — 604 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 3.91 avg rating — 367 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 3.61 avg rating — 395 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 3.88 avg rating — 344 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) 3.66 avg rating — 323 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) 4.12 avg rating — 153 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 by Jennifer Armstrong, Mary GrandPré (Illustrator) 4.28 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 1998 — 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
	Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat by Jennifer Armstrong, Mary GrandPré (Illustrator) 4.23 avg rating — 118 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) 4.21 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2005 — 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

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Series by Jennifer Armstrong

Fire-us (3 books)
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Jennifer Armstrong,

Nancy Butcher

3.85 avg rating — 1,315 ratings

Wild Rose Inn (6 books)
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Jennifer Armstrong

3.77 avg rating — 437 ratings

Becoming Mary Mehan (2 books)
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Jennifer Armstrong

3.45 avg rating — 104 ratings

Pets, Inc. (4 books)
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Jennifer Armstrong

3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings

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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