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(6th - 12th Grades)
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1) Lunch money
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English
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Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.
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Library mouse books volume 5
Pub. Date
2007.
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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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2001.
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English
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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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Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Henrietta the chicken loves to read so much that she decides to write a book herself, but first no one will publish a book written by a chicken, and then, when she publishes it herself and it gets a terrible review in "The Corn Book," Henrietta is devastated.
11) The fire within
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Last dragon chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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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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43 Old Cemetery Road volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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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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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
Description
Cleaning his room and talking to his best friend while preparing to write what he knows will be an incredible story, little Ike discovers that he is missing just the right ink to get his project underway, a need that requires extraordinary effort to fulfill.
14) Dear Max
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Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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.
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Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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After her father's death, aspiring sixth-grade writer Addy McMahon feels like she is cursed with bad luck, and when she temporarily loses her best friend, and is forced to admit that her mother is dating again, she vows she will never write another word.
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Series
Bobo books (Eileen Rosenthal) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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.
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Lily B. series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"The eventually internationally recognized writer Lily Blennerhassett" spends her thirteenth summer missing her best friend and keeping a journal of her boring life at home and exciting newly-discovered relatives.
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Tales from the House of Bunnicula volume 1
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
With help from his Uncle Harold, who wrote books about Bunnicula, Howie the wire-haired dachshund writes a story in which he saves the world from a science experiment gone awry.
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