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Alan Armstrong


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Children's, Historical Fiction


Alan Armstrong started volunteering in a friend's bookshop when he was eight. At 14, he was selling books at Brentano's. As an adult, every so often, he takes to the road in a VW bus named Zora to peddle used books. He is the editor of Forget Not Mee & My Garden, a collection of the letters of Peter Collinson, the 18th-century mercer and amateur botanist. He lives with his wife, Martha, a painter, in Massachusetts. ...more

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Average rating: 3.58 · 3,042 ratings · 495 reviews · 57 distinct works • Similar authors
Whittington
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3.61 avg rating — 2,697 ratings — published 2005 — 15 editions
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Raleigh's Page
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Looking for Marco Polo
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Racing the Moon
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Preemptive Strike: The Secr...
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Off in Zora: A Modern-Day T...
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Say It in Maori: Phrase Book
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Maori Customs and Crafts.
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The Economy of Kent, 1640-1...
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The Lost Daughter
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“chickens are socialists and it’s one for all in the world of eggs.”
― Alan Armstrong, Whittington
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