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83) Brainstorm!
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A child, struggling with what to write about, is swept up in a whirlwind of words, pictures, and ideas, until she finds herself caught in a downpour of her own creativity. Includes writing prompts and glossary.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When sixteen-year-old Leo decides to win over Beatrice, a girl who doesn't know he exists, and after an accident lands him in the hospital where Beatrice has been admitted, his mission to be there for her will send him on a heartbreaking journey.
Author
Series
Tuesday McGillycuddy volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Tuesday McGillycuddy and her beloved dog Baxterr discover that Tuesday's mother--the famous author Serendipity Smith--has gone missing, they set out on a magical adventure. In their quest to find Serendipity, they discover the mysterious and unpredictable place that stories come from"--
88) Afterworlds
Author
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Forgotten Girl, a fifteen-year-old poet, is going through the most difficult time of her life--the breakup of her parents, and her mom's resulting depression--when she meets Random Boy, a hot guy who, like her, feels like an outcast and secretly writes poetry to deal with everything going on in his life. In The Lost Marble Notebook of Forgotten Girl & Random Boy, the couple's poems come together to tell their unique love story. The two nameless teenagers...
Author
Series
Cilla Lee-Jenkins volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Priscilla Cilla Lee-Jenkins has just finished her (future) bestselling memoir, and now she's ready to write a classic. This one promises to have everything: romance, adventure, and plenty of drama like Cilla's struggles to be more Chinese, to be the perfect flower girl at Aunt Eva's wedding, and to learn how to share her best friend"--Provided by publisher.
93) Someone like me
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In this semi-autobiographical picture book, author Patricia MacLachlan relates what it might take to grow up to become a writer.
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 5
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
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
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Yearning for life in a cloistered scriptorium, thirteen-year-old Princess Matilda, whose lame foot brings fear of the evil eye, escapes her scheming cousin Ivo and joins her servant Judith and an old friend, Parz, in hunting dragons and writing about them.
100) A book
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Once in a book by Mordecai Gerstein ... there lived a family of characters." This is the tale of one little girl's search for her own story.
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