Jennifer Roy
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Jennifer Roy is the award-winning author of 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 "Trading Faces" (Simon and Schuster), a series co-authored with her twin sister, Julia DeVillers. The second book in the series is "Take Two", and the newest book is "Times Squared". Her book "MindBlind" (book), about a boy who is profoundly gifted and has Asperger Syndrome, was published in October 2010 and received a YALSA award. Ms. Roy lives in upstate New York with her husband and extraordinary son.
She is also noted in World Almanac 2008.
Yellow Star (book)
Yellow Star is a 2006 biographical children's novel by Jennifer Roy. Written in free verse, it depicts life through the eyes of a young Jewish girl whose family was forced into the Łódź Ghetto in 1939 during World War II. Roy tells the story of her aunt Syvia, who shared her childhood memories with...
, which won a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award (2006), Sydney Taylor Honor Award, The William Allen White Children's Book Award
William Allen White Children's Book Award
The William Allen White Children's Book Award is an annual book award chosen by Kansas students. It was established by Ruth Garver Gagliardo in 1952, in memory of William Allen White and is administered by Emporia State University. It was the first statewide readers' choice book award in the United...
(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 "Trading Faces" (Simon and Schuster), a series co-authored with her twin sister, Julia DeVillers. The second book in the series is "Take Two", and the newest book is "Times Squared". Her book "MindBlind" (book), about a boy who is profoundly gifted and has Asperger Syndrome, was published in October 2010 and received a YALSA award. Ms. Roy lives in upstate New York with her husband and extraordinary son.
She is also noted in World Almanac 2008.