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Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Written by award-winning author and screenwriter John Hamilton, You Write It! lays out for kids the format, organization, and development of a variety of fiction genres: mystery, fantasy, science fiction, horror, graphic novels, and screenplays. Novice writers of all ages will find detailed yet easy-to-follow guide for turning thoughts and ideas into real, readable written works.
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Readers become writers with tips from expert authors, writing activities, excerpts from well-known works, and a writer's timeline to help translate imagination into real stories.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 7
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Narrate your very own Dork Diary with this interactive guided journal, filled with questions for every day and complete with art and quotes from Nikki Maxwell herself! As Nikki Maxwell knows, keeping a journal is a great way to get to know the most important person in your life: YOU! This special Dork Diaries guided journal features questions for every day of the year. If you could swap places with anyone for a day, who would it be and why? What song...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
A former United States Poet Laureate shares secrets about viewing the world from a poet's perspective, explaining how "jabberwalking" poets draw inspiration from everything they experience to express themselves in creative ways.
Author
Publisher
Owl Kids
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Offers advice for effective storytelling in comic book format, covering such topics as color, placement, pacing, visually representing ideas, and other techniques for short gag strips as well as graphic novels and other more involved storylines.
15) Roald Dahl
Author
Series
Publisher
Weigl Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A biography of British author Roald Dahl, whose books include "James and the Giant Peach" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," plus a chapter of creative writing tips.
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Segmented into ten subjects, a collection of "poemstarts" provides amusing beginnings to a series of poems and challenges readers to complete the tale in their own special way, enhanced with large text and bold illustrations. When Jack Prelutksy posted the first couplet of a funny poem on a Web site and invited children to finish it, he expected about 100 responses. He got thousands. Now he has come up with an anthology of poems on 10 popular subjects...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of E.B. White's life and career through personal letters, photographs, family ephemera, and original artwork, while offering glimpses into the origins of his iconic works.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Even as a kid, everyone thought Jeff Kinney was talented. People loved his drawings, and when he went to college, his comic strip Igdoof was so popular that it spread to other universities! Still, Jeff faced challenges. His cartoons were rejected by syndicates that claimed his art was unprofessional. Then, an idea struck: Jeff would write a journal from the perspective of a child, illustrated with doodles just like a kid might do. And so, the Diary...
20) Dr. Seuss
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Simple text and photographs present the life of Dr. Seuss.
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