Jennifer Armstrong, Author . Dell/Laurel-Leaf $6.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-440-22961-2
A pair of tales are now combined into one volume. The first, The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan, recounts an Irish immigrant's experience living in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War. In a starred review, PW
called it "remarkable for its...
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Jennifer Armstrong, Author Skylark Books $2.75 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-15804-5
Jenny, younger sister Carrie and their best friends Tina and Hilary run a business called Pets, Inc. They take on almost every kind of pet-related job--from walking dogs to buying birdseed, from cleaning fish tanks to feeding cats. But they are...
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Jennifer Armstrong, Author Starfire $3.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-553-29866-6
This lackluster offering is the first installment of the Wild Rose Inn series, which promises to chronicle the romantic adventures of six generations of young MacKenzie women. The first of these girls is Bridie, 16, who leaves her barren but beloved
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Jennifer Armstrong, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-375-82499-9
In a dozen short stories, writers ponder What a Song Can Do: 12 Riffs on the Power of Music, edited by Jennifer Armstrong. In Ron Koertge's ""Variations on a Theme,"" nine high school band members (writing as ""percussion,"" ""clarinet,"" etc.) tell
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Jennifer Armstrong, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $18 (119p) ISBN 978-0-679-88152-0
Exploring an aspect of the immigrant experience, Armstrong's (Black-Eyed Susan) finely wrought historical novel also captures a powerful measure of the magnitude and depth of the pain caused by the Civil War. Mairhe Mehan and her father live among...
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Jennifer Armstrong, Author Alfred A. Knopf $4.99 (119p) ISBN 978-0-679-88557-3
PW called this novel of an Irish immigrant's experience ""remarkable for its artistry and the lingering musicality of its language."" Ages 11-14. (Aug.)
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Jennifer Armstrong, Author Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $4.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-679-89265-6
The sequel to The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan follows a young Irish immigrant in the years after the Civil War, as she falls in love with a veteran, a former musician who cannot hear. Ages 14-up. (July)
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Jennifer Armstrong, Author Crown Publishers $18 (120p) ISBN 978-0-517-80013-3
Endurance is the fitting name British explorer Ernest Shackleton gave to the ship that left England in 1914 with a crew of 27, transporting what he anticipated to be the first expedition to cross the entire continent of Antarctica. It is also a...
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Jennifer Armstrong, Author Orchard Books (NY) $15.95 (206p) ISBN 978-0-531-05983-8
In the fall of 1896 elderly Susannah McKnight coaxes her granddaughter Mary to travel with her to Canada to visit someone Mary regards as an ``old slave woman.'' Mary's vision of Bethlehem Reid is shattered, however, when she hears an amazing story...
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Jennifer Armstrong, Author, Valery Vasiliev, Illustrator Tambourine Books $16 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-10751-2
The power of belief fuels this tale of a stranger whose carvings come to life as he tells stories about them to the assembled townsfolk. The suspicious and greedy mayor demands that the whittler hand over the magic knife despite the stranger's...
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Jennifer Armstrong, Author, Nancy Butcher, Joint Author Eos $15.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-008050-1
The Fire-us Trilogy, a post-apocalyptic action-adventure about a group of children who survive a virus that kills off most of the world's adults, reaches its conclusion in The Kiln by Jennifer Armstrong and Nancy Butcher. Dark secrets come to...
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Jennifer Armstrong, Author, Susan Gaber, Author, Diane Arico, Editor Dial Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1700-8
A tribute to the power of imagination, Armstrong's (Pockets) circus tale starts with a ""lazy, foolish man"" named Pierre who has ""no job, no interests and no hobby besides sitting under the olive trees in the afternoon, thinking of dinner"" and...
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Jennifer Keishin Armstrong. Simon & Schuster, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4516-5920-7
The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which ran for seven seasons (1970–1977), made it big, and the series remains one of TV’s most acclaimed, with 29 Emmys total. Entertainment writer Armstrong’s affectionate and meticulous history offers a captivating behind-
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Jennifer Keishin Armstrong and Heather Wood Rudulph. Mariner, $15.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-547-73830-7
Co-founders of SexyFeminist.com, Armstrong and Rudulph combine their advice in a practical, if unoriginal, guide to living as a "21st-century feminist." With sections on waxing, plastic surgery, make-up, dieting, and more, this book has potential as
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Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, read by Christina Delanie. Tantor Audio, , unabridged, 8 CDs, 10 hrs. $39.99 ISBN 978-1-5159-0398-7
Armstrong provides an in-depth and delightful cultural history of the ’90s TV show Seinfeld, exploring its initial conception by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the pivotal episodes, seasonal developments, important writers, and, of course, its...
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Jennifer Armstrong, Author, David Small, Illustrator , illus. by David Small. S&S/Wiseman $16.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-689-84251-1
Armstrong (Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat
) and Small (So You Want to be President?
) join forces for this sublimely silly wordless story, which brings to mind a silent short by Laurel and Hardy (who make a cameo appearance). The action gets...
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Jennifer Armstrong, Author, Susan Meddaugh, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $14 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-11832-7
When that terrible baby chews up the eye patch of Mark's pirate costume or rips Eleanor's gorilla poster off the wall or gets water all over the bathroom floor or knocks over the garbage can, their mother hears none of Mark and Eleanor's...
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Jennifer Armstrong, Author, Mary GrandPre, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-517-70926-9
In this text-laden tale, a seamstress, ""a slim schooner of a woman, driven by strong winds and a broken heart,"" lands at the edge of a prairie town where the villagers have no use for her finery. She sheds her travel-worn courtly clothes for a...
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Jennifer Armstrong, Author, Mary GrandPre, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-517-58656-3
Nimble, polished prose and elegant, cinnamon-toned paintings distinguish this pungent Chinese folktale. Newly widowed (and newly impoverished) Chin Yu Min is nearly done in by her own haughtiness after she spurns the kindness of her neighbors: ``Coin
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Jennifer Armstrong, Author, Mary GrandPre, Illustrator Dragonfly Books $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-517-88549-9
Praising the ""nimble, polished prose and elegant cinnamon-toned paintings"" that ""distinguish this pungent Chinese folktale,"" PW starred this retelling of the tale of a newly impoverished, haughty widow and the cat that brings about her change of
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Jennifer Armstrong, Author, Kimberly Bulcken Root, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-517-58218-3
This story of the capable Hugh, told in a rhythmic text that hurries along like the hero, is a read-aloud natural. The protagonist--``as poor as a rabbit but as quick as a fox''--seeks his fortune in the city, but to get there must complete a series
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Jennifer Armstrong, Author, Emily Martindale, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15 (120p) ISBN 978-0-517-70107-2
Ten-year-old Susie revels in the natural beauty of the vast prairie surrounding her family's sodhouse in the Dakota Territory, but her mother-depressed and homesick for her native Ohio-refuses to go outdoors. In Armstrong's (King Crow; Steal Away)...
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Jennifer Armstrong, Author, W. Somerset Maugham, Illustrator, William L. Maughan, Illustrator Crown Publishers $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-517-80091-1
This distillation of Armstrong's Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World into picture book format masterfully foreshortens the key events of Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated expedition aboard the Endurance to Antarctica. Trapped in pack ice in January...
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Jennifer Armstrong, Author, Barry Root, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-12457-1
Just as she did in her acclaimed Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat, Armstrong uses simple, elegant prose to conjure up the mystical beauty of Chinese folklore. Wan Hu, the hero of this original tale, suffers from classic poet's distraction, endlessly...
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Peter Jennings, Author, Jennifer Armstrong, Author, Todd Brewster, Joint Author Doubleday Books for Young Readers $29.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-32708-4
With Armstrong's (In My Hands) help, news veterans Jennings and Brewster here smoothly adapt their bestselling tome for adults, The Century, for a younger audience. They offer young Americans a unique look at the past 100 years, via not only...
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