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Jennifer Roy

Born

in Colonie, New York, The United States

May 26, 1967

Website

http://www.jenniferroy.com/

Genre

Children's

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Jennifer Roy (see also Jennifer Rozines Roy) is an American children's writer. She is best known for fiction including Yellow Star, which won a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award (2006), Sydney Taylor Honor Award, The William Allen White Children's Book Award (2009), a New York Public L Book, an ALA Notable Book, National Jewish Book Honor Award, and received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, VOYA and Booklist. She has written 35 educational books for children ages 5–16, including the "You Can Write" series.
Her latest book is Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein (February 2018), inspired by the true story of a young boy growing up in Iraq under the first Gulf war. Her Co-author Ali Fadhil was that boy and he grew ...more

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Average rating: 4.22 · 30,497 ratings · 2,936 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors

	Yellow Star 4.25 avg rating — 16,103 ratings — published 2006 — 30 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
	Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein 3.93 avg rating — 1,388 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	Mindblind 3.94 avg rating — 1,202 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Jars of Hope by Jennifer Roy, Meg Owenson (Illustrator) 4.27 avg rating — 670 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Cordially Uninvited 3.87 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Nicki: My Journal 4.26 avg rating — 46 ratings	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
	Persuasive Writing 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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
	Hayes Narrative Writing Grades 4-8 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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	Because I'm jennifer That's Why: :notebook for jennifer - lined-120 pages-6 x 9 inches 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“We must honor our differences while we find our own courage and our own strength the best we know how.”
― Jennifer Roy, Yellow Star

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“because yellow is meant to be a happy color, not the color of hate.”
― Jennifer Roy, Yellow Star

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“Bright colors don’t exist in the ghetto, except for the yellow stars and puddles of red blood that we carefully step around. “More shootings,” Papa says quietly. His face is gray.”
― Jennifer Roy, Yellow Star

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

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Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein by Jennifer Roy

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Meet Me at the Cupcake Café (At the Cupcake Café, #1) by Jenny Colgan

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First Love by James Patterson

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Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff

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Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Lady of Justice by Cyana Scriptora

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The Gender Game by Bella Forrest

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