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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 year...
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English
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Uniquely fusing practical advice on writing with his own insights into the craft, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes constructs beautiful prose about the issues would-be writers are most afraid to articulate:
• How do I dare write?
• Where do I begin?
• What do I do with this story I have to tell that fills and breaks my heart?
Rich with personal vignettes about Rhode's sources of inspiration, How to Write is also a memoir...
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Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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The book extension of the growing writer's movement and challenge to write 1,000 words a day helps readers and writers discover how to uncover their creative desires and stay motivated and offers advice from over 50 well-known writers.
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Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"How would you know what time it was without clocks? How would you buy things without money? It's hard to imagine what life would be like today without the inventions and discoveries that we take for granted, from the humble bar of soap to the fantastic complexity of the Internet. Combining history with science, this series explains how these products of human ingenuity have transformed our world" -- Provided by publisher.
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Library mouse books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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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.
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English
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This step-by-step guide teaches you the tricks of the trade, with advice on all you need to know to compete in the world of fiction. Whether you are seeking to hone your writing style, shape an existing work-in-progress, or begin the submission process to publishers, successfully published novelists Joyce and Jim Lavene give you all you need to know to set you on the fast track to fulfilling your writing dreams!
This authoritative guide shows you...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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A former United States Poet Laureate shares secrets about viewing the world from a poet's perspective, explaining how "jabberwalking" poets draw inspiration from everything they experience to express themselves in creative ways.
10) Devotion
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Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"In lyric essays, a story, poems, and photographs, Smith illuminates the whirl of chance and choice that stokes a writer's imagination, recounting her fascination on the eve of a trip to Paris with Simone Weil and an evocative, accidentally discovered film about Stalin's mass deportation of Estonians. In France, a gravestone, a televised figure-skating competition, a meal, and a garden all converge in what becomes Devotion, [a] ... fairy tale about...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A charmingly idiosyncratic look at writing, creativity, and the author's own novels. Haruki Murakami's myriad fans will be delighted by this unique look into the mind of a master storyteller. In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with readers what he thinks about being a novelist; his thoughts on the role of the novel in our society; his own origins as a writer; and his musings on the sparks...
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Series
World according to Humphrey volume 11
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"During a creative writing unit at Longfellow School, the students in Mrs. Brisbane's class practice using their imagination with their very own writing journals--and Humphrey finds out that writing from his imagination is harder than it looks"--
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Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
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Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A writing guide for boys draws on advice by such authors as Jon Scieszka and Robert Lipsyte regarding how to make writing assignments fun while sharing tips for exploring a variety of subjects and capturing key story moments.
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English
Description
Any story that starts will also end. As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores what it means to be seen, to find someone...
17) No two persons
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister's No Two Persons is a gloriously original celebration of fiction, and the ways it deepens our lives.* That was the beauty of books, wasn't it? They took you places you didn't know you needed to go... Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and...
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American girls collection. Kit, 1934 volume 6
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 6
The American girls collection volume Book 6
American girls collection. Kit 1934 volume 6
The American girls collection volume Book 6
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
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 dif
20) Unstuck
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Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lyla sets out to write the perfect fantasy novel in her creative writing class, but discovers some unexpected twists and turns, both on and off the page. Includes twenty-five ways to overcome writer's block.
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