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Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, Noah Breth's feuding children come to Ghastly, Illinois, to follow a trail of limericks to their inheritance, while Seymour tries to convince Iggy and Olive to let him keep Mr. Breth's dog.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, busybody Dick Tater tries to ban Halloween and ghost stories, as well as to break up the popular writing team of I. B. Grumply, ghost Olive C. Spence, and eleven-year-old illustrator Seymour Hope.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"Magni animi numquam moriuntur. Great minds never die. The students in Corbin College’s elite academic society, Magni Viri, have it all—free tuition, inspirational professors, and dream jobs once they graduate. When first-gen college student Tara is offered a chance to enroll, she doesn’t hesitate. Except once she’s settled into the gorgeous Victorian dormitory, something strange starts to happen. She’s finally writing, but her stories...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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NPM - 2023 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults
NPM - YA Black Voices
NPM - YA Fairytales & Retellings
NPM - YA Romance
NPM - YA Black Voices
NPM - YA Fairytales & Retellings
NPM - YA Romance
Description
Sixteen-year-old Tessa Johnson has never felt like the protagonist in her own life. She's rarely seen herself reflected in the pages of the romance novels she loves. The only place she's a true leading lady is in her own writing--in the swoony love stories she shares only with Caroline, her best friend and #1 devoted reader. When Tessa is accepted into the creative writing program of a prestigious art school, she's excited to finally let her stories...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Homer is about to fail out of school unless he can come up with a story. An epic story. Oh, and it needs to be written in Dactylic Hexameter. No big deal ... except Homer has no idea what that is. But the Greek god Hermes has a story that needs a storyteller, and with a trick of immortal magic, he sends Homer and his best friend Dory back ten years to the end of the Trojan War. They meet up with the Greek hero Odysseus along with an entire crew of...
Author
Series
Hopi volume 6
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"En la casa de té de la señora Bylsma, los tres amigos se han encontrado con un cliente muy especial. Un simpático escritor, con una imaginación inmensa, que resulta ser un antiguo compañero de Salami ¿Se alegrará el profesor de esta visita?"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old, mystery-loving Birdie's new job at a historic Seattle hotel leads her and her co-worker, Daniel, to a real mystery about a reclusive writer who resides there.
Mystery-book aficionado Birdie Lindberg has an overactive imagination. Homeschooled by strict grandparents, she's cultivated a fantasy life in which she plays the heroic detective and every stranger is a suspect. She works the graveyard shift at a historic Seattle hotel,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The hunt for the golden book: Geronimo's laptop is stolen just as he's finishing up writing a special book! Can he and his friends hunt it down in time for his tenth-anniversary party?"--Dust jacket.
"The lake monster: Can Geronimo figure out this creature's secret?"--Dust jacket.
Author
Series
Swallowtail legacy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
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Description
Swallowtail Island is hosting the Swallowtales Writer's Conference. Lark's ecstatic to be chosen as a "page" for her favorite author, Ann E. Keyhart. But they say you should never meet your idols. When Keyhart arrives with her personal assistant in tow, she is nothing but a terror. And within a few hours, the assistant is dead! But the explanation isn't sitting well. Not when lots of people had reasons to want to be rid of Keyhart, and especially...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"It's the night before Christmas but Andy and Terry aren't ready yet! They haven't written their letters to Santa, they haven't sung any carols or hung their stockings, and now Mr. Big Nose wants their next book done by tomorrow. When Santa Claus's sleigh crash-lands in the treehouse, the reindeer become tangled in the branches and Santa falls into the cloning machine. With dozens of Santas running around and no way to tell which one's the real one,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Andy and Terry live in a 117-story treehouse. (It used to be a 104-story treehouse, but it just keeps growing!) It now has a pajama-party room, a water-ski park filled with flesh-eating piranhas, an Underpants Museum, a giant-fighting-robot arena, and the Door of Doom (don't open it or you'll be COMPLETELY and UTTERLY DOOMED!). For as long as Andy and Terry have been writing books together, Andy has always been the narrator and Terry has always...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Why? distills the conversations many children and adults are having about race, injustice, and anger in communities throughout our country, and gives them context that young readers can connect with. Heartfelt and deeply piercing illustrations from Shane W. Evans will leave a lasting impact on readers of any age. One that will hopefully lead to more conversations, change, and peace within our own communities and the world." --
Author
Series
The Brixton Brothers volume 2
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Steve is investigating a diamond heist but the case suddenly changes when the author of the Bailey Brothers detective novels writes him a letter to say that he fears for his life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From the moment she first learned to read, literary genius Darcy Wells has spent most of her time living in the worlds of her books. There, she can avoid the crushing reality of her mother's hoarding and pretend her life is simply ordinary. But when a new property manager becomes more active in the upkeep of their apartment complex, the only home Darcy has ever known outside of her books suddenly hangs in the balance. While Darcy is struggling to...
39) Author day
Author
Series
Kids in Ms. Colman's class volume 2
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Ricky's favorite author is coming to visit Ms. Colman's class, and he can't wait. But then Ricky makes a big mistake in class, and now he doesn't want to have Author Day at all.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In free verse, evokes the voice of Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, a book-loving writer, feminist, and abolitionist who courageously fought injustice in nineteenth-century Cuba. Includes historical notes, excerpts from her writings, biographical information, and source notes.
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