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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1030L
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English
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"SOME PIG," Charlotte the spider's praise for Wilbur, is just one fondly remembered snippet from E. B. White's Charlotte's Web. In Some Writer!, the two-time Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet mixes White's personal letters, photos, and family ephemera with her own exquisite artwork to tell his story, from his birth in 1899 to his death in 1985. Budding young writers will be fascinated and inspired by the journalist, New Yorker contributor, and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1220L
Language
English
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"Considered as one of the classics of twentieth century feminist literature, The Room of One's Own is a book-length essay written by Virginia Woolf. Delineating the basic requirements of a woman to write, the author incorporates detailed revelations of the various power structures that stop a woman to excel and elucidate her creative capabilities. Illustrating the importance of women's literacy through a fictional character named Judith Shakespeare,...
5) Broken
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English
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Alvar Eide is 42-years-old, single, and works in a gallery. His is a quiet, orderly life, and that's the way he likes it; no demands, no unpleasantness. Until an icy winter afternoon when a a young drug addict, skinny and fragile, walks into his gallery. Taking pity, Alvar gives her a cup of coffee to warm her up; and soon she returns to the gallery again, before one day simply showing up on his doorstep. Of course, all of this is merely the story...
6) Final draft
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Laila Piedra is a biracial aspiring author whose creative writing teacher always told her she has a special talent, so when he suddenly dies and is replaced by Nadiya Nazarenko, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who is sadistically critical and perpetually unimpressed, Laila grows obsessed with gaining the woman's approval and is led to believe she must choose between perfection and sanity, but rejecting her all-powerful mentor may...
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"What's the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut...
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A timeless, utterly charming Christmas fable, beautifully illustrated and destined to become a classic
When Paul Auster was asked by The New York Times to write a Christmas story for the Op-Ed page, the result, "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story," led to Auster's collaboration on a film adaptation, Smoke. Now the story has found yet another life in this enchanting illustrated edition with Argentine artist Isol.
It begins with a writer's dilemma: he's...
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English
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A groundbreaking novel told in an exciting new form, mixing fiction, memoir, prose poetry, and textual art, exploring birth, death, the Internet, and the writing life as they play out in contemporary America and telling the story of a man who wakes up one morning not knowing who he is.
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"Our heroine, a moderately successful TV writer in L.A., wants her life to be as sunny and perfect as a Hollywood rom-com: a cool job, a wacky best friend, and lots of age-appropriate hot guys just dying to date her. Instead, she's a self-described spinster who is swimming in anxiety and just might have a tiny little brain tumor. So she turns to an unlikely source for inspiration: the eighteenth-century novelist and diarist Frances Burney, who pretty...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
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Learn how to write from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author, Walter Dean Myers. Follow his train of thought as he shows his process for writing fiction and nonfiction books.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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In 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science fiction novel. The novel earns rave reviews, and Adana begins a sequel. Then she falls gravely ill. Just before she dies, she destroys the only copy of the manuscript. Decades later in Chicago, Saul Drower is cleaning out his dead grandfather's home when he discovers a mysterious manuscript written by none other than Adana Moreau. With the help of his friend Javier,...
14) Tropic of cancer
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English
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A stream-of-consciousness story of a poverty-stricken young American, living in Paris.
Miller's groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America, he threw himself into the low-life of bohemian Paris with unwavering gusto. A fictional account of Miller's adventures amongst...
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"This collection of more than twenty-five critical essays, speeches, and biographical pieces written and/or chosen by Diana Wynne Jones will be required reading for the author's many fans and for students and teachers of the genre. Reflections includes insightful literary criticism alongside autobiographical anecdotes about reading tours (including an account of the author's famous travel jinx), revelations about the origins of the author's books,...
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Essie is an octogenarian obituary writer for her family's small town newspaper. When a young country girl is reported to be missing, perhaps whisked away by an itinerant aerial photographer, Essie stumbles onto the story of her life. Or, it all could be simply a hoax, or a delusion, the child and child-thief invented from the desperate imagination of a lonely, lovelorn woman. Either way, the story of the girl reaches far and wide, igniting controversy,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
940L
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English
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"Bursting with practical tips and tricks, such as creating actual story-finding maps of your neighborhood, this book will help you build confidence and establish good writing habits as you learn to use a journal to snoop out plots full of action and emotion about yourself, your family, your friends, your neighbors, and your pets. As Jack shows you hot to shape your rough ideas, organize plots, and polish drafts to shiny perfection, he also shares...
19) Someone like me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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In this semi-autobiographical picture book, author Patricia MacLachlan relates what it might take to grow up to become a writer.
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"A dazzling literary debut novel-within-a-novel, in the vein of The Prophets, about a young author writing about the forbidden love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl--in which Mohammed's story collides with his own, blending fact and fiction."--
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