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Jennifer L. Holm's Boston Jane A Dream

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Jennifer L. Holm was born in May 1968, in California , lived for short time on Whidbey island , she has four brothers, her mother is nurse ,her dad was a pediatrician, she grow up in a small town in Pennsylvania , when she was a student in Dickinson College in Carlisle Holm she decided to audit a class in writing short stories After graduating from the Dickinson college in Carlisle , she start later began a writer and Holm’s writing career began ,and she got married , she has two kids Then she write Boston Jane An Adventure (2001, her favorite writers is Lloyd Alexander , she is writing for children and this is all her book : our only may Amelia , an adventure , the creek , Boston

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