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Series
Diary of an awesome friendly kid volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In his first journal, middle schooler Rowley Jefferson, Greg Heffley's sidekick, records his experiences and misguided decision to write a biography of Greg, who, in his own mind, is destined to become rich and famous.
Author
Language
English
Description
Darius is a writer whose only escape is his alter ego, a peregrine falcon named Fury, and Twig is a middle-distance runner striving for athletic success. But they are drawn together in the struggle to overcome the obstacles that life in Harlem throws at them. The two friends must face down bullies, an abusive uncle, and the idea that they'll be stuck in the same place forever.
4) The whisper
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Description
Her magical book of stories is wordless until a whisper in the wind tells a little girl to imagine a story for each page.
Author
Series
Treehouse series volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Andy and Terry live in a 39-story treehouse, with the world's highet trampoline, a chocolate waterfall, a baby-dinosaur petting zoo, an active(non-erupting) volcano, a boxing elephant called The Trunkinator, the world's scariest roller coaster, and a level that is so new and so secret that Terry hasn't even finished it yet!"--P. [4] of cover.
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Series
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.
Learn devices used to create different kinds of poems such as simile, metaphors, haiku, acrostics, and more.
Author
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old John "Houdini" Smith tries to write a book about what is happening in his life, from his parents' worries about money and his brother in Iraq, to his new understandings of people while he and his friends rake lawns in their East Side Providence, Rhode Island neighborhood.
Author
Series
Library mouse books volume 1
Language
English
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.
9) Inkheart
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Series
Language
English
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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.
10) Gravebooks
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English
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Description
"Alex again has to write stories to survive, this time learning to finish discarded ideas and overcome writer's block, after he's held hostage in his dreams by fear vampire Simeon, working alongside evil witch Natacha in a story graveyard"--
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Language
English
Description
"The life of a book isn't easy, especially when people judge you by your cover (not every book can be adorned with sparkly unicorns!). And this narrator should know--it's the book itself, and it has a lot of opinions. It gets irritated when readers bend its pages back, and it finds authors quite annoying. But it does have a story to tell. Through witty direct address and charming illustrations, readers meet a book that has never been read, with a...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The last thing sixteen-year-old Maisie Martin thought she'd be doing over vacation is entering a beauty pageant. Not when she's spent most of her life hiding her body from everyone. Not when her Dad is AWOL and her gorgeous older sister has returned to rock Maisie's already shaky confidence. And especially not when her best friend starts flirting with the boy she's always loved. But Maisie's got something to prove. As she writes down all the ways...
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