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Author
Series
Tales from the House of Bunnicula volume 2
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In his new book, Howie the wire-haired dachshund writes all about how the Mind Swappers from Asteroid 6 invade Earth and how he and his friend Delilah save the day.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, children's book author, I. B. Grumply, gets more than he bargained for when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer.
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 5
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
At college in New York City, Janie Johnson, aka Jennie Spring, seems to have successfully left behind her past as "The face on the milk carton," but soon she, her families, and friends are pursued by a true-crime writer who wants their help in telling her kidnapper's tale.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
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
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 5
Language
English
Formats
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...
70) A squiggly story
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A young boy wants to write a story, just like his big sister. But there's a problem, he tells her. Though he knows his letters, he doesn't know many words. His sister patiently explains, "Every story starts with a single word and every word starts with a single letter. Why don't you start there, with a letter?" So the boy tries. He writes a letter. An easy letter. The letter I. And from that one skinny letter, the story grows, and the little boy discovers...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
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.
73) Artsy-fartsy
Author
Series
Aldo Zelnick comic novel volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Aldo Zelnick's painter grandmother gives him a sketchbook to use during summer vacation, he starts to fill it in with pictures and text, even though he thinks that being artsy is uncool at first, in a book featuring vocabulary starting with A.
74) Suite Scarlett
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Scarlett Martin has grown up in a most unusual way. Her family owns the Hopewell, a small Art Deco hotel in the heart of New York City. When each of the Martins turns fifteen, they are expected to take over the care of a suite. For Scarlett's fifteenth birthday, she gets both a room called the Empire Suite, and a permanent guest called Mrs. Amberson. Scarlett doesn't quite know what to make of this C-list starlet and world traveler. And when she...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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
Tales from the House of Bunnicula volume 4
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Howie the wirehaired dachshund and his friend Delilah collaborate on a novel, trying to win the coveted Newbony Award.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Thistle Tate, a bestselling author with glowing reviews, diehard fans across the globe, and more, struggles with secrets that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect world.--
Thistle Tate, bestselling author of the wildly successful Lemonade Skies series, is only seventeen. She has diehard fans across the globe, and has finally started to date her best friend and next-door-neighbor, Liam, the only one who knows her deep dark...
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