Lee, 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
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEEGrimes, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GRIWesterfeld, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WESSteinberg, Avi
Summary: "Once upon a time there was a story no one has ever heard before, inspired by a carrot on the run, a knight who'd trade his sword for a pal, and an alien who just wants to get some rest and relaxation. It's a story about how to tell a story. From choosing a main character to crafting a problem to solve to arriving at a satisfying conclusion"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 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 JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Kinney 2019Kinney, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD KINKirk, 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 KIRDee, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DEEBirney, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway 2019
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Summary: Tapir has a new notebook and pencils but, unlike his friends, can think of nothing to write and is ready to give up when he finds a better way to communicate--through drawing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC RUSHenry, April
Summary: Bridget is R.M. Haldon's biggest fan. She and her mom sought refuge in Haldon's epic fantasy series Swords and Shadows while her mom was losing her battle with cancer. When Bridget met Haldon at one of his rare book signings, she impressed the author with her encyclopedic knowledge of the fantasy world he'd created. Bridget has been working for him ever since as he attempts to write the final...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HENHarrison, Margot
Summary: Celeste Bergstein moves to a small town in Montana to escape her past, only to become embroiled in her new home town's twisted secrets when the school's star athlete--who is also the subject of Celeste's writings--is found dead at the mouth of a cave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HARD'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 DLAEngle, Margarita
Summary: "Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she struggles to belong. But most of the time that's okay, because she enjoys helping her parents care for the many injured animals at their veterinary clinic. Then Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, moves to town, and aspiring writer Oriol finds herself opening up. As she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ENGGriffiths, Andy
Summary: Andy and Terry live in a 26-storey treehouse. It has a bumper car rink, a skate ramp, an antigravity chamber, an ice cream parlor with 78 flavors, and the Maze of Doom. This time, the two friends have a whole week to finish their next book, and Andy even knows what it should be about; the story of how he and Terry first met. But, life is never boring in the treehouse, and emergency shark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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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 MILMcNamara, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MCNKirk, 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 Stacks, Call number: JE KirBruel, Nick
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION BRUGriffiths, Andy
Summary: Andy and Terry's 13-storey treehouse is the most amazing treehouse in the world! It's got a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of man-eating sharks, a giant catapult, a secret underground laboratory and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and shoots marshmallows into your mouth whenever you're hungry. Well, what are you waiting for? Come on up!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC GRIHolub, Joan.
Summary: Once upon a time, in pencil school, a brave little red pencil sets out to write an exciting story with nouns and adverbs and everything--but first she has to face the ravenous pencil sharpener, the Wolf 3000.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HOLMacLachlan, Patricia.
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 2010Hopkinson, 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