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Ann M. Martin

• Project By C. C.

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Born and Raised

• She was born on August 12, 1955. She grew up
  in Princeton, New Jersey, with her parents, her
  younger sister, Jane, and lots of pets. Growing
  up Ann was a big cat lover, but aside from that
  she and her family also had hamsters, mice,
  guinea pigs, turtles, and fish of all different
  kinds.

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Education and Career

• After graduating from Smith College, Ann became a
  teacher, she enjoyed it very much but she decided
  that she had better things in life so she became
  a children's book editor. She is now a full time
  writer.

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Inspired Books

• Ann gets the ideas for her books from
  different places. Some are even based on personal
  experiences, while others are based on childhood
  memories and feelings. Many are written on
  contemporary problems or events.

MANY
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Books By This Author

• The Baby-Sitters Club
• Here Today
• Belle Teal
• Corner of the Universe
• A Dogs Life
• On Christmas Eve
• Main Street
• Kids Of Mrs. Coleman's Class

• California Diaries
• Snail Mail No More
• The Doll People
• The Meanest Doll In The World
• The Runaway Dolls

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The Baby-Sitters Club

• This series is about a group of middle school
  girls living in a fictional town called
  Stoneybrook, Connecticut. They run a business
  called the Baby-Sitters Club. This is a club that
  helps parents find good baby-sitters for their
  kids. These girls have their club meetings on
  Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 530 P.M to
  600 P.M. The club runs financially on dues and
  fundraisers, and the baby-sitters write diaries
  of their jobs to help each other.

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Here Today

• This book is about Ellie an 11 year old girl
  whose mother has been careless and whose siblings
  are argumentative. She gets bullied and treated
  like she didn't exist along with her best friend,
  Holly. Her life is turned upside down when her
  mother decides to go into show business. Her
  mother has asked Ellie to call her Doris. As her
  life progresses, Ellie discovers she has more
  power than she thinks and can change her life no
  matter what the situation.

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Belle Teal

• 10 year old Belle Teal Harper lives with her
  mother and grandmother on the wrong side of the
  tracks, in a small rural city in the 1960s. They
  dont have much, but they have each other, and
  Belle Teal feels that she is rich with love and
  loyalty to her family and her best friends,
  Clarice and Little Boss.

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A Corner of the Universe

• Hattie Owen enjoys the familiarity of her small
  town life, but during the summer she turns 12,
  her world is turned upside down with the arrival
  of an uncle no one has ever spoken about. Now
  that Hattie's uncle's "school" an institution for
  the mentally disabled is closing, Hattie's family
  must deal with a childlike young man whose
  existence they've denied for years.

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On Christmas Eve

• Eight-year-old Tess is convinced this is the year
  she will finally meet Santa, and experience "the
  Christmas magic." She also wishes with all her
  heart that her best friend's ill father will
  recover. Tess' faith in the season results in a
  Christmas Eve so wondrous, so sparkling, readers
  won't be able to help but feel transformed. Like
  trimming the tree and "It's a Wonderful Life"
  baking cookies and "White Christmas," On
  Christmas Eve is sure to bring new holiday magic
  to readers' lives.

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Main Street

• Flora and Ruby do not want to move to Camden
  Falls. But they don't really have a choice --
  their parents are dead and their grandmother,
  Min, is taking them in. It's strange to be in a
  new place. But luckily, it's a very welcoming
  place. Min runs a sewing store, Needle Thread,
  at the heart of Main Street in Camden Falls.
  There, Flora and Ruby become friends with Olivia,
  who likes to organize things, and Nikki, who
  lives on the wrong side of the tracks. Even if
  Flora and Ruby never expected it to, Camden Falls
  becomes their home . . . and its stories become a
  part of their stories.

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Snail Mail No More

• Best friends Elizabeth and Tara Starr are
  still totally different. Tara Starr accessorizes
  with glitter and sequins, and loves the
  spotlight. Elizabeth loves reading and writing
  poetry, and hates to be the center of attention.
  Though the two live far from each other, they
  continue to correspond regularly now, via E-mail.
  But distance and life events out of their control
  put the girls' friendship to the test. An
  unforgettable testament to the power of
  friendship.

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The Doll People

• This book is about a 100 year old china doll and
  her family who have been passed down from
  generation to generation in the same house with
  the same family. She has had a simple life doing
  what regular live dolls do. Her aunt has been
  missing for 40 years and has never returned to
  their old fashioned doll house. She meets other
  living dolls and her and her new best friend,
  Tiffany Funcraft, set out on an adventure to find
  Auntie Sarah.

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The Meanest Doll in the World

• Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft go on an
  adventure with Auntie Sarah up to the attic to
  search for spiders. They stayed up in the attic
  to long that they got down as soon as Kate was
  awake so Auntie Sarah hid in the backpack. They
  went to school and went adventuring through the
  hallways. They ended up getting in the other

• back pack than Kate's. They went home with
  somebody else and ended up having an adventure to
  try to defeat Mean Mimi and save doll kind.

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The Runaway Dolls

• Best friends Annabelle and Tiffany risk placing
  all of doll kind in danger when they run away
  while trying to prevent Tilly from being sent
  back to London before they can determine if she
  is Annabelles long-lost baby sister.

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Sources

• martin, a.m.m. (n.d.). Scholastic. Retrieved from
  http//www.scholastic.com/annmartin/about/