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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Natalie writes a wonderful novel, her friend Zoe helps her devise a scheme to get it accepted at the publishing house where Natalie's mother works as an editor. Natalie uses a pseudonym to write her first book, and her friend, Zoe, pretends to be an agent. With a little help from an English teacher, the book exceeds everyone's expectations and becomes a bestseller!
Author
Series
Last dragon chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When college student David Rain rents a room in an unusual boardinghouse full of clay dragons, he has no idea that they, along with some lively squirrels, will help jumpstart his writing career.
3) Lunch money
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.
4) Fire star
Author
Series
Last dragon chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on a research trip to the Arctic, Chris begins writing a story about bears, dragons and a mysterious fire star, only to realize that his tale is coming alive and is populated by an old adversary out to destroy his world forever.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
"During a creative writing unit at Longfellow School, the students in Mrs. Brisbane's class practice using their imagination with their very own writing journals--and Humphrey finds out that writing from his imagination is harder than it looks"--
9) Inkspell
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
When Dustfinger finds a crooked storyteller who can read him back to Inkscape, he leaves his apprentice Farid behind. Farid seeks out Meggie and the two follow him back into the enchanted book. Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of Inkheart the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate. When he finds a crooked...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Ted Geisel loved to doodle from the time he was a kid. He had an offbeat, fun-loving personality. He often threw dinner parties where guests wore outrageous hats! And he donned quirky hats when thinking up ideas for books like his classic The Cat in the Hat. This biography, with black-and-white illustrations throughout, brings an amazingly gifted author/illustrator to life.
11) Dark fire
Author
Series
Last dragon chronicles volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bestselling author David Rain returns to help Lucy and the Pennykettle dragons try to find and destroy a drop of dark fire before it is discovered and used to birth a darkling, while in the Arctic, enshrouded in mist, hide dragons that have at last returned to Earth.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourth-grader Brian Higman worries about how his teacher Miss Fromme--nicknamed The General--will react when he fails to hand in a writing assignment, but he ends up being able to tell his story after all.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine shares the secrets of her writing success, including how to get ideas, creating beginnings and endings, writing great dialogue, developing memorable characters, and more.
Author
Series
Tales from the House of Bunnicula volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Continuing his search for fame as a writer, Howie the wire-haired dachshund creates a story remarkably similar to the popular one he has heard about a heroic boy wizard.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish, how he feels, and things that have happened to him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the defining characteristics of a folktale, discusses where folktales come from, why people tell folktales, and what role folktales play in various cultures, recounts popular folktales, and explains how to write a folktale.
Author
Series
Tuesday McGillycuddy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
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. To save the lives of those she loves, Tuesday must summon all her wit, courage, and imagination. But how will she ever find her way home?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
"Reader beware! The biography of R. L. Stine, author of the hugely popular Goosebumps series, is a scary-good time! R. L. Stine began writing stories at the age of nine, after finding a typewriter in his family's attic. (Was it a haunted typewriter? Who can be sure?) Often referred to as the 'Stephen King of children's literature,' R.L. has created some of the scariest books to have ever been passed around a campfire, leaving readers wide awake at...
Author
Series
Tales from the House of Bunnicula volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Howie the wirehaired dachshund and his friend Delilah collaborate on a novel, trying to win the coveted Newbony Award.
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