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Jennifer Roy


Born
in Colonie, New York, The United States
May 26, 1967

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Children's


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 · 30,605 ratings · 2,954 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors
Yellow Star
4.25 avg rating — 16,179 ratings — published 2006 — 32 editions
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Playing Atari with Saddam H...
3.93 avg rating — 1,403 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions
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Mindblind
3.94 avg rating — 1,203 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions
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Jars of Hope
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Cordially Uninvited
3.86 avg rating — 353 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
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Nicki: My Journal
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Persuasive Writing
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Report Writing
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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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