Faruqi, Saadia
Summary: Yasmin struggles with Ms. Alex's assignment to write an essay about her hero until she realizes that her hero is someone very close to her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FARBirney, 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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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BIROliver, Carmen
Summary: Adelaide and Bear team up to demonstrate to the entire class, including Mrs. Fitz-Pea, that bears make the best writing buddies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE OLIManushkin, Fran
Summary: Katie and her friends explore writing different kinds of poetry about themselves and their surroundings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MANReid, C. L.
Summary: Her second place finish in a writing contest for third graders disappoints Emma, a deaf girl, but her best friend Izzie, who did not expect much, is thrilled to finish third, so the girls decide to celebrate together. Includes an ASL fingerspelling chart and a sign language guide.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Dee, 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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Place a hold to request this item.MacLachlan, Patricia.
Summary: A visiting author teaches five friends about the power of words and writing.
Format: text
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books/Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOPAbed, Omar
Summary: A boy begrudgingly composes a sometimes-rhyming adventure with his precocious little sister.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE ABEBirney, 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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BIRDee, 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 DEEHolub, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE HOLLehrhaupt, Adam
Summary: What happens when the story ideas--from a bored Viking to a space robot--kept in a teacher's special jar escape and get rowdy?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LEHMyers, Maya
Summary: "Rosie is a good writer, so how come she can't come up with a single good story idea when her friend Wolfie has a million ideas? Rosie knows all the elements needed for a good story, but she wants her story for a class assignment to be GREAT--and that means giving it a surprise twist. Then Wolfie himself unwittingly inspires the perfect idea for the twist Rosie's been looking for. But will...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MYELowry, Lois.
Summary: Gooney Bird Greene takes charge of a class project as she and her fellow students in Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class learn about fables by each making up their own based on an animal that begins with the same letter as their first name.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC LowryCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED LOWHanlon, Abby.
Summary: Although his teacher insists there are stories everywhere, Ralph cannot think of any to write.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Children's Publishing 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: JE HANThompkins-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