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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen Kings critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work. “Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen Kings On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view...
2) Misery
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
Paul Sheldon, author of a series of historical romances, wakes up in a secluded farmhouse in Colorado with broken legs and Annie Wilkes, a disappointed fan, hovering over him with drugs, ax, and blowtorch and demanding he bring his heroine back to life
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Although she has recently completed a 400-page romance novel, Princess Mia, in her last month of high school, has yet to pick a college, find a prom dress, or decide if her boyfriend J. P. is really The One.
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
An award-winning author guides readers through the writing process, and includes examples from his own works, outlines for writing fiction and nonfiction, and excerpted pages from the author's writing notebooks.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Shakespeare Shapiro navigates a senior year fraught with feelings of insecurity while writing the memoir of his embarrassing life, worrying about his younger brother being cooler than he is, and having no prospects of ever getting a girlfriend.
Author
Series
Dune novels. Legends of Dune volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Bridget is both an employee of author RM Haldon and his biggest fan, so when she starts to receive cryptic emails from him after he goes missing, she teams up with her friend to find Haldon.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"In an unassuming corner of Brooklyn, a young woman learns to be ladylike, to love context, and to speak her mind from a very curious sort of tutor. In a faraway land convulsed by war, a young soldier hears the desert's curious hum as he disarms bombs with the person he doesn't know how to love. In a place so shriveled by drought that any drowning is a curiosity, a young writer tries again and again to tread water beneath the surface of a vast and...
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 5
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
At college in New York City, Janie Johnson, aka Jennie Spring, seems to have successfully left behind her past as "The face on the milk carton," but soon she, her families, and friends are pursued by a true-crime writer who wants their help in telling her kidnapper's tale.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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"Two star-crossed assassins in Elizabethan England must go undercover as actors in one of William Shakespeare's plays in a plot to kill the queen"--
In the early sixteen-hundreds, two star-crossed assassins, nineteen-year-old Toby and seventeen-year-old Kit, go undercover as actors in a Shakespeare play in a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth.
15) Afterworlds
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
16) The pros of cons
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Drummer Phoebe Byrd prides herself on being one of the guys, and she's ready to prove it by kicking all their butts in the snare solo competition at the Indoor Percussion Association Convention. Writer Vanessa Montoya-O'Callaghan has been looking forward to the WTFcon for months. Not just because of the panels and fanfiction readings but because WTFcon is where she'll finally meet Soleil, her internet girlfriend, for the first time. Taxidermy assistant...
17) Fangirl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Feeling cast off when her best friend outgrows their shared love for a favorite celebrity, Cath, a dedicated fan-fiction writer, struggles to survive on her own in her first year of college while avoiding a surly roommate, bonding with a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words and worrying about her fragile father.
Author
Publisher
WordSong
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, poet Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night--and discovered the magic and impact of writing. In this memoir in verse that will resonate with young readers and adults alike, Nikki shows how...
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