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Jennifer Roy

Jennifer Roy is the author of the highly acclaimed Yellow Star, which won a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature and a Sydney Taylor Honor Award. It was a Jewish Book Awards Finalist, an ALA Notable Book,... Read full bio

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Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
A. Totally grateful for every good thing that happens
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Jennifer Roy: A Self Portrait
Jennifer Roy Revealed
Revealing Questions
Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?
A. Totally grateful for every good thing that happens
Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. I'm Jennifer, not Julia!
On Books and Writing
Q. How did you come to write Trading Faces?
A. Julia and I had wanted to write a book together and the timing was right. We decided that Julia would be one twin character and I would be the other and we started making up personalities for them. It's been fun--and a little embarrassing--using our own experiences as identical twins in Trading Faces.