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Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While brainstorming ideas to improve his aunt's boring children's book, twelve-year-old Alex recruits his friends to act out new scenes that will make the plot more exciting--and dangerous.
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
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old John "Houdini" Smith tries to write a book about what is happening in his life, from his parents' worries about money and his brother in Iraq, to his new understandings of people while he and his friends rake lawns in their East Side Providence, Rhode Island neighborhood.
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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Description
"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.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
d2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Using sticky notes, an author tries to convince her publisher that her book is about figs, not pigs, but the wording, illustrations, and even recipes present pigs as growing on trees, and tasty with orange and ginger sauce.
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In Amherst, Massachusetts, in spring, 1834, young Emily Dickinson uses scraps of paper and a pencil nub to write a poem, before she even knows her ABCs, and shares it with her household and garden. Includes author's note about Dickinson's life and work.
87) A squiggly story
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy wants to write a story, just like his big sister. But there's a problem, he tells her. Though he knows his letters, he doesn't know many words. His sister patiently explains, "Every story starts with a single word and every word starts with a single letter. Why don't you start there, with a letter?" So the boy tries. He writes a letter. An easy letter. The letter I. And from that one skinny letter, the story grows, and the little boy discovers...
Author
Series
Three-ring rascals volume 2
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
As the performers in Sir Sidney's circus discover that friendship and teamwork are more important than winning a trophy for The Greatest Star on Earth, circus mice Bert and Gert write a book on how to be kind for rotten ringmaster-in-training Barnabas Brambles to read.
89) Chloe y el león
Author
Publisher
Tramuntana
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Mac, the author, fires Adam, the illustrator, over their artistic differences about Chloe, the main character of their book, until Mac realizes both of their talents are needed and they must work together or their story about Chloe will never be finished.
90) 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.
91) Whatshisface
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Although not thrilled when her summer plans are upended for a surprise cross-country train trip with her family and embarrassed because one of her moms is writing a tell-all book about the trip, twelve-year-old Sara Johnston-Fischer finds herself changing along with the landscape outside the train windows.
Author
Series
Golden hamster saga volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
The characters in Freddy's latest novel, an evil fifteenth-century poacher and his ferrets, mysteriously come to life, endangering Freddy and his friends and drawing them to an English castle near where the poacher once lived.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.
95) The writer
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A dog has an important job to do, especially if his human is a writer. Without a dog by his side, the writer would forget to eat. He’d never get out of his pajamas, and he’d probably stare at the computer all day long. But even the best French bulldog can’t do everything. Maybe this perfect pair needs someone new in their lives…
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Harry wants nothing more than to write Hollywood screenplays. He knows the first step toward achieving that goal is winning a screenwriting competition that will seal his admission into the college of his dreams, so he’s determined to spend his summer free of distractions—also known as boys—and finish his script. After last year, Harry is certain love only exists in the movies anyway. But then the cause of his first heartbreak, Grant, returns...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"'You can write about anything, as long as you write about you.' A young boy listens as Mr. Lopez explains the class's assignment: write about yourself. Marcus is going to write about his hat collection. Alia is going to write about the vampires she talks about all the time. The boy, however, doesn't have any ideas beyond a title: 'The Story of Me by Me.' His sister suggests making lists as a way to start--Thinks I Like, Things I Know. But the things...
Author
Series
Isaiah Dunn volume 1
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Isaiah is now the big man of the house. But it's a lot harder than his dad made it look. His little sister, Charlie, asks too many questions, and Mama's gone totally silent. Good thing Isaiah can count on his best friend, Sneaky, who always has a scheme for getting around the rules. Plus, his classmate Angel has a few good ideas of her own--once she stops hassling Isaiah. And when things get really tough, there's Daddy's journal, filled with stories...
Author
Series
Cilla Lee-Jenkins volume 2
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
“Anyone who spends time with Cilla Lee-Jenkins will look forward to reading her in the future.” Booklist, starred review, on Cilla Lee-Jenkins: Future Author Extraordinaire. Priscilla “Cilla” Lee-Jenkins has just finished her (future) bestselling memoir, and now shes ready to write a Classic. This one promises to have everything: Romance, Adventure, and plenty of Dramalike Cillas struggles to “be more Chinese,” be the perfect flower girl...
100) 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...
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