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Alan Armstrong
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Alan Armstrong started volunteering in a friend’s bookshop when he was eight. At 14, he was selling books at Brentano’s. As an adult, every so often, he takes to the road in a VW bus named Zora to peddle used books. He is the editor of Forget Not Mee & My Garden, a collection of the letters of Peter Collinson, the 18th-century mercer and amateur botanist. He lives with his wife, Martha, a painter, in Massachusetts.
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Written by Alan Armstrong
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2006
Price: $6.50
Whittington is a roughneck Tom who arrives one day at a barn full of rescued animals and asks for a place there. He spins for the animals—as well as for Ben and Abby, the kids whose grandfather does the rescuing—a yarn about his ancestor, the nameless cat who brought Dick Whittington... Read more >
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Written by Alan Armstrong
Illustrated by Tim Jessell
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $16.99
Newbery Honor–winning author Alan Armstrong’s latest book!
Eleven-year-old Mark's anthropologist father has disappeared in the Gobi desert while tracing Marco Polo’s ancient route from Venice to China. His mother decides they must go to Venice to petition the agency that sent Mark’s father to send out a search party. Anxious about his... Read more >

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Written by Alan Armstrong
Illustrated by S.D. Schindler
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: July 26, 2005
Price: $14.95
Bernie keeps a barn full of animals the rest of the world has no use for–two retired trotters, a rooster, some banty hens, and a Muscovy duck with clipped wings who calls herself The Lady. When the cat called Whittington shows up one day, it is to the Lady that he... Read more >

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Written by Alan Armstrong
Illustrated by Tim Jessell
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $16.99
ANDREW HAS grown up near the Plymouth docks hearing the sailors talk about America. Knowing that Andrew's heart is set on going to the new world, his father sends him up to London to serve as page in the house of Walter Raleigh. In Queen Elizabeth's court, Raleigh's the strongest voice... Read more >

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Written by Alan Armstrong
Read by Joel Rooks
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 22, 2006
Price: $30.00
Bernie keeps a barn full of animals the rest of the world has no use for–two retired trotters, a rooster, some banty hens, and a Muscovy duck with clipped wings who calls herself The Lady. When the cat called Whittington shows up one day, it is to the Lady that he... Read more >
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Written by Alan Armstrong
Illustrated by Tim Jessell
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $6.99
ANDREW HAS grown up near the Plymouth docks hearing the sailors talk about America. Knowing that Andrew's heart is set on going to the new world, his father sends him up to London to serve as page in the house of Walter Raleigh. In Queen Elizabeth's court, Raleigh's the strongest voice... Read more >
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Written by Alan Armstrong
Illustrated by S.D. Schindler
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 208 pages
On Sale: July 26, 2005
Price: $16.99
Bernie keeps a barn full of animals the rest of the world has no use for–two retired trotters, a rooster, some banty hens, and a Muscovy duck with clipped wings who calls herself The Lady. When the cat called Whittington shows up one day, it is to the Lady that he... Read more >
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Written by Alan Armstrong
Illustrated by Tim Jessell
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 304 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $19.99
Newbery Honor–winning author Alan Armstrong’s latest book!
Eleven-year-old Mark's anthropologist father has disappeared in the Gobi desert while tracing Marco Polo’s ancient route from Venice to China. His mother decides they must go to Venice to petition the agency that sent Mark’s father to send out a search party. Anxious about his... Read more >
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Written by Alan Armstrong
Illustrated by Tim Jessell
Format: Hardcover Library Binding, 336 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $19.99
ANDREW HAS grown up near the Plymouth docks hearing the sailors talk about America. Knowing that Andrew's heart is set on going to the new world, his father sends him up to London to serve as page in the house of Walter Raleigh. In Queen Elizabeth's court, Raleigh's the strongest voice... Read more >
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Written by Alan Armstrong
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 8, 2009
Price: $6.50
Bernie keeps a barn full of animals the rest of the world has no use for–two retired trotters, a rooster, some banty hens, and a Muscovy duck with clipped wings who calls herself The Lady. When the cat called Whittington shows up one day, it is to the Lady that he... Read more >
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Written by Alan Armstrong
Illustrated by Tim Jessell
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $6.99
ANDREW HAS grown up near the Plymouth docks hearing the sailors talk about America. Knowing that Andrew's heart is set on going to the new world, his father sends him up to London to serve as page in the house of Walter Raleigh. In Queen Elizabeth's court, Raleigh's the strongest voice... Read more >
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Written by Alan Armstrong
Illustrated by Tim Jessell
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $16.99
Newbery Honor–winning author Alan Armstrong’s latest book!
Eleven-year-old Mark's anthropologist father has disappeared in the Gobi desert while tracing Marco Polo’s ancient route from Venice to China. His mother decides they must go to Venice to petition the agency that sent Mark’s father to send out a search party. Anxious about his... Read more >
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Written by Alan Armstrong
Read by Joel Rooks
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 22, 2006
Price: $15.00
Bernie keeps a barn full of animals the rest of the world has no use for–two retired trotters, a rooster, some banty hens, and a Muscovy duck with clipped wings who calls herself The Lady. When the cat called Whittington shows up one day, it is to the Lady that he... Read more >









