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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In Romania in 1989, when people who say or do the wrong thing disappear, ten-year-old aspiring writer Ileana copes with fear, hunger, and cruelty by writing new endings to stories, including her own.
43) Library mouse
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Sam, a shy but creative mouse who lives in a library, decides to write and illustrate his own stories which he places on the shelves with the other library books but when children find the tales, they all want to meet the author.
44) A free life
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Nan Wu, who had studied in the U.S. in the mid-1980s, leaves China with his wife and son to seek the freedom of the West, embarking on a migration that takes them through the heart of contemporary America.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Susy Clemens wants the world to know that her papa, Mark Twain, is more than just a humorist and sets out to write a comprehensive biography of the American icon.
48) Inkheart
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2003
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This #1 New York Times bestselling prequel to Sex and the City is now a CW TV series! The Carrie Diaries is the coming-of-age story of Carrie Bradshaw, one of the most iconic characters of New York City and our generation. Before Sex and the City, Carrie was a small-town girl who knew she wanted more. She's ready for real life to start, but first she must navigate her senior year of high school. Up until now, Carrie and her friends have been inseparable....
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c2001
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.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Elinor is used to doing very well in school, but as Poem in Your Pocket Day approaches, bringing an opportunity to meet a real poet, her struggle to write a perfect poem causes Elinor's confidence to falter, despite Mr. Tiffin's guidance and reassurance.
53) Adam & Eve
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Lucy Bergmann accompanies her husband, a revered scientist, to a conference in Cairo where he is to present evidence of extraterrestrial life, but events take an unexpected turn when he dies and she is involved in a plane crash that unites her with Adam, an injured, delusional American soldier, who makes her his Eve.
54) Tropic of cancer
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Venice for Lovers is a memorable collaboration by two fine stylists who have fashioned their own personal homages to Venice, one with a novella, the other with a personal essay. Every year for all the thirty they have been married, Begley and Muhlstein have escaped to Venice to write. In her contribution to the book, Muhlstein charmingly describes how she and her husband dine at the same restaurant every night for years on end, and how becoming friends...
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The scene is a small town in Maine in the 1950s. Louisa Fisher, called "Fish" by her friends, yearns for true love. She also wants to be a writer, hoping for a bestseller before she is twenty. Unnerved by the boys at school with their leering question "What Do Cowboys Like?", Fish is afraid to show ignorance and makes up for it with fanciful flights of prose in the novel she is secretly penning.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Hay-on-Wye, 1995. Peter Byerly isn$1 (Bt sure what drew him into this particular bookshop. Nine months earlier, the death of his beloved wife, Amanda, had left him shattered. The young antiquarian bookseller relocated from North Carolina to the English countryside, hoping to rediscover the joy he once took in collecting and restoring rare books. But upon opening an eighteenth-century study of Shakespeare forgeries, Peter is shocked when a portrait...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once upon a time, in pencil school, a brave little red pencil sets out to write an exciting story with nouns and adverbs and everything--but first she has to face the ravenous pencil sharpener, the Wolf 3000.
59) My Hero
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
One for the keeper shelf! Enjoy again this charming classic romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.
Would-be romance writer Bailey York was a woman who'd already failed twice at love. As far as she was concerned, men were wonderful to read-and to write-about, but that was as close as she wanted to get. Which was probably why she had such difficulty creating a hero.
She needed a real-life model, she finally decided....
Author
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Lovesick Budge Moss, middle-aged author on the skids, sails his boat one way to Rock Hall on Chesapeake Bay, with only his cat for company--and then he sells the boat. His wife has left him, his home and possessions are gone, but he's determined to reestablish his bearings and write a thinly disguised tale about this lonely passage in his life.
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