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Jennifer Roy

Biography

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, School Library Journal Best Book and a NYPL Top Book for Reading and Sharing Books for the Teenager. She is also the author of CORDIALLY UNINVITED and MINDBLIND  and the coauthor of the Trading Faces series, written with her twin sister, Julia DeVillers.

Jennifer Roy

Books by Jennifer Roy

by Jennifer Roy - Fiction

Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel Clark lives in two worlds --- the outside world of his family and friends and his own, special, inside Aspie world, world where he can solve mathematical problems that elude even the brightest graduate students. People say he’s a genius, but Nathaniel thinks differently. According to a book he once read, a true genius uses his talent to make a contribution to the world. Nathaniel takes the definition literally, and begins his quest for genius status.