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Author
Series
Diary of an awesome friendly kid volume 1
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
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.
2) Lunch money
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Chester books volume 3
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Library mouse books volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Last dragon chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
During a creative writing unit in Mrs. Brisbane's class, the students practice using their imagination with their very own writing journals--and Humphrey finds out that writing from his imagination is harder than it looks.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Avon the snail decides to become a writer with the help of his friend Edward the ant, which leads them into a series of adventures involving close encounters with an anteater, a crow, a tree frog, and a hungry fish.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Named after a character in a Shakespeare play, misfit sixth-grader Hero becomes interested in exploring this unusual connection because of a valuable diamond supposedly hidden in her new house, an intriguing neighbor, and the unexpected attention of the most popular boy in school.
Author
Series
Fanny books volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fanny decides to make her very own picture book, starring her homemade doll, Annabelle.
13) Sahara special
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Struggling with school and her feelings since her father left, Sahara gets a fresh start with a new and unique teacher who supports her writing talents and the individuality of each of her classmates.
15) Inkspell
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Now thirteen, Meggie "reads" herself into Inkworld, where she, her family, and the characters in the book face chaos and danger as the original creator of the world frantically tries to redirect the story.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
17) Chester's back!
Author
Series
Chester books volume 2
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With heavy paw and red marker, a control-freak cat commits his own storytelling ideas to paper, much to the dismay of the author-illustrator, who is trying to create her own story.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Alice must write about herself for an assignment in her London school, and in doing so, she sorts out her feelings about her somewhat prickly single mother, the father she has never met, her flamboyant paternal grandmother, and the rest of her sometimes confusing life.
Author
Series
Three-ring rascals volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the performers in Sir Sidney's circus discover that friendship and teamwork are more important than winning a trophy for The Greatest Star on Earth, circus mice Bert and Gert write a book on how to be kind for rotten ringmaster-in-training Barnabas Brambles to read.
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