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Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Erin receives her long-dead mother's diary, which reveals that she too revered Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and wanted to be a writer, and Erin impulsively decides to take the Greyhound bus from St. Paul, Minnesota to Monroeville, Alabama, to visit the reclusive author.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Thirteen-year-old Penelope, the secret author of macabre tales in "The Penny Dreadful," Victorian London's bestselling magazine, investigates the mystery of a strange phenomenon occurring in the local insane asylum.
24) The fire within
Author
Series
Last dragon chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Tells the story of how, in Savannah, Georgia, in 1857 James Lord Pierpont sat down to write a song for his congregation's Thanksgiving program and, homesick for the cold New England weather he remembered, came up with an enduring classic.
Author
Series
After-school superstars volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Third-grader Vera, a budding artist who loves every minute of her after-school comic-book camp, searches for a way to get her mother's permission to attend the camp's final field trip to Comic-Con.
Author
Series
Bobo books (Eileen Rosenthal) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Willy writes a storybook starring Bobo, his stuffed monkey, in order to act out his revenge fantasies on Earl, his cat, who retaliates by continually wrecking Willy's stories until the duo realize they both have something in common.
30) Dear Max
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
As Max--who is almost ten--and his favorite author, D.J. Lucas, exchange letters, the two writers help each other with their new books and develop a special friendship.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Cooperatively writing a fairy tale for school, a girl imagines a beautiful princess whose beloved ponies are being stolen by a giant, and a boy conjures up the muscular biker who will guard the last pony in exchange for gold.
34) Chester
Author
Series
Chester books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
This story is told, and retold, by dueling authors. Mlanie starts out with the story of a mouse. Then her cat, Chester, sends the mouse packing and proceeds to rewrite the story with his marker, and the gloves are off.
36) The school story
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Natalie's best friend, Zoe, is sure that the novel Natalie's written is good enough to be published. But how can a twelve-year-old girl publish a book? Natalie's mother is an editor for a big children's publisher, but Natalie doesn't want to ask for any favors. Then Zoe has a brilliant idea: Natalie can submit her manuscript under a pen name, with Zoe acting as her literary agent.
Author
Series
Isaiah Dunn volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"Isaiah is now the big man of the house. But it's a lot harder than his dad made it look. His little sister, Charlie, asks too many questions, and Mama's gone totally silent. Good thing Isaiah can count on his best friend, Sneaky, who always has a scheme for getting around the rules. Plus, his classmate Angel has a few good ideas of her own--once she stops hassling Isaiah. And when things get really tough, there's Daddy's journal, filled with stories...
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 53
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Drover C. Dog, faithful sidekick to Hank the Cowdog, tells the story of his life, from being the runt of the litter with dreams of being a handsome prince, to how he came to Loper and Sally May's ranch.
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Stella Endicott loves her teacher, Miss Liliana, and she is thrilled when the class is assigned to write a poem. Stella crafts a beautiful poem about Mercy Watson, the pig who lives next door -- a poem complete with a metaphor and full of curiosity and courage. But Horace Broom, Stella's irritating classmate, insists that Stella's poem is full of lies and that pigs do not live in houses. And when Stella and Horace get into a shouting match in the...
Author
Series
Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Author/illustrator Nick Bruel tries to explain to the reader how to write a story, but Bad Kitty is not at all happy about the plot, which has her going on a turnip diet to lose weight. Includes a recipe for roasted turnips.