Tan, Susan
Summary: Priscilla Cilla Lee-Jenkins has just finished her (future) bestselling memoir, and now she's ready to write a Classic. This one promises to have everything: romance, adventure, and plenty of drama like Cilla's struggles to be more Chinese, to be the perfect flower girl at Aunt Eva's wedding, and to learn how to share her best friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TANHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: A child struggles to write a story until he finds inspiration outside his window.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books/Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOPKirk, Daniel.
Summary: When Sarah, an explorer mouse, meets Sam she gives him the courage to finally climb to the highest library shelves--and beyond--and he shows her how to explore the world through reading.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIRWesterfeld, Scott.
Summary: In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WESMills, Claudia
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MILKinney, Jeff
Summary: "Introducing the newest Wimpy Kid author: Rowley Jefferson! Rowley's best friend Greg Heffley has been chronicling his middle-school years in thirteen Diary of a Wimpy Kid journals . . . and counting. But it's finally time for readers to hear directly from Rowley in a journal of his own. In Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid, Rowley writes about his experiences and agrees to play the role of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD KINBirney, Betty G.
Summary: During a creative writing unit at Longfellow School, the students in Mrs. Brisbane's class practice using their imaginations with their own writing journals, and Humphrey finds out that writing from his imagination is harder than it looks.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway 2019
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Summary: A visiting author teaches five friends about the power of words and writing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2010
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction MacLachlan 2010Tripp, Valerie
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Company Publications 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRIDee, Barbara
Summary: A middle grade novel about a girl whose struggles with anxiety and writer's block set off unexpected twists and turns, both on and off the page.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC DEEKlise, Kate.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J FIC KLIBirney, Betty G.
Summary: "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 / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Sam, the shy mouse that lives in the library and likes to write books, collaborates with a boy in the library's Authors and Illustrators Club.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE LIBKirk, Daniel.
Summary: Sam, the shy mouse that lives in the library and likes to write books, collaborates with a boy in the library's Authors and Illustrators Club.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction KirkCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE KirD'Lacey, Chris.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC D'LACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC DLATripp, Valerie
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Company Publications 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRIFunke, Cornelia Caroline.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2003
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FUNCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC FUNThompkins-Bigelow, Jamilah
Summary: A little boy who loves storytelling but struggles with writing learns that it's okay to make mistakes in this charming and encouraging book from the author of Mommy's Khimar. Abdul loves to tell stories. But writing them down is hard. His letters refuse to stay straight and face the right way. And despite all his attempts, his papers often wind up with more eraser smudges than actual words....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG THOGrimes, Nikki.
Summary: A group of high school students grow in understanding of each other's challenges and forge unexpected connections as they prepare for a boys vs. girls poetry slam.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GRIDee, Barbara
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DEEKinney, Jeff
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KIN1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KIN
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC KINSaltzberg, Barney
Summary: Given blank books by their mother, Seymour, Fiona, and Wilbur let their imaginations fly, then put their stories, poems, and pictures together in a single, shared book.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SALMcNamara, Margaret
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MCNLee, Stacey (Stacey Heather)
Summary: "1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019