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A. M. Jenkins

American writer of young adult fiction (born 1961) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Amanda McRaney Jenkins (born 1961) is an American writer of young adult fiction. Her novels have received considerable recognition, including the Delacorte Prize for Breaking Boxes,[1] and a Printz Honor for Repossessed.[2]

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Jenkins was born in 1961 and has lived all her life in Texas.[3] She now lives in Benbrook with two of her three sons and assorted pets.[4] Before writing full-time, she was a high school math teacher.[5]

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Awards and honors

In 2005, Jenkins received the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, a stipend intended to grant a measure of financial freedom to a writer of children's or YA literature.[6][4]

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