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23) Brainstorm!
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A child, struggling with what to write about, is swept up in a whirlwind of words, pictures, and ideas, until she finds herself caught in a downpour of her own creativity. Includes writing prompts and glossary.
26) Whatshisface
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thistle Tate, bestselling author of the wildly successful Lemonade Skies series, is only seventeen. She has diehard fans across the globe, and has finally started to date her best friend and next-door-neighbor, Liam, the only one who knows her deep dark secret: she's not the real author of the books. How can she have friendships based on deception? All she wants is for this last book to be written so she can be done with the ruse for good. Liam becomes...
30) Gravebooks
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Alex again has to write stories to survive, this time learning to finish discarded ideas and overcome writer's block, after he's held hostage in his dreams by fear vampire Simeon, working alongside evil witch Natacha in a story graveyard"--
Author
Series
Cilla Lee-Jenkins volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A half-Chinese, half-Caucasian girl's 'memoir' about a new sibling, being biracial, and her path to literary greatness"--
35) Lost for words
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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.
36) White space
Author
Series
Dark Passages volume 1
Publisher
Egmont Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A seventeen-year-old girl jumps between the lines of books and into the white space where realities are created and destroyed but who may herself be nothing more than a character written into being from an alternative universe.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Isaiah is now the big man of the house. But it's a lot harder than his dad made it look. His little sister, Charlie, asks too many questions, and Mama's gone totally silent. Good thing Isaiah can count on his best friend, Sneaky, who always has a scheme for getting around the rules. Plus, his classmate Angel has a few good ideas of her own--once she stops hassling Isaiah. And when things get really tough, there's Daddy's journal, filled with stories...
39) Fly on the wall
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Though Henry Khoo is twelve years old, he's still treated like a baby. He's forbidden from going anywhere without his sister/chaperone/bodyguard. And he definitely CAN'T take a journey halfway around the world all by himself! But that's exactly his plan. After his family's annual trip to visit his father in Singapore is canceled, Henry decides he doesn't want to be cooped up at home with his overprotective family and BFF turned NRFF (Not Really Friend...
40) Call me Al
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In this middle-grade novel, eighth-grade student Ali Khan finds that writing poetry--first about his crush, then about what it means to be an immigrant and the anti-Muslim racism around him--helps him discover who he truly is."--
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