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1441) Anonymously yours
Author
Publisher
J. Messner
Pub. Date
1991.
Lexile measure
1010L
Physical Desc
xi, 122 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The popular author describes how he grew up in Decatur, Illinois, went into teaching, and eventually became a writer, incorporating his earlier experiences into novels intended to reach and change young readers.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
[xxviii, 240] pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The definitive handbook for the novelist who is ready to revise...This wise and friendly guide shows writers how to turn first-draft manuscripts into the novels of their dreams. A critic, longtime teacher, and award-winning novelist, Sandra Scofield illustrates how to reread a work of fiction with a view of its subject and vision, and how to take it apart and put it back together again, stronger and deeper. Scofield builds her explanations around...
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A biography that follows the lives of Robert McCloskey, creator of Make Way for Ducklings, and sculptor Nancy Schön, whose famous bronze ducks grace Boston Public Garden"--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 634 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides a portrait of the enigmatic fifteenth-century knight who created the literary classic "Le Morte d'Arthur," set against the backdrop of an era that became a bridge between the Middle Ages and the modern world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A short biography of this husband and wife writing team, including their relationship, how they became authors, how they write together, and their advice for young, aspiring authors"--Provided by publisher.
1450) Cómosellama
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 20 cm
Language
Español
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
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Tony dreams about life after high school, where his poetic voice can find freedom on the stage and page. But the Boogeyman has been following Tony since he was six years old. First, the Boogeyman was after his Blackness, but Tony has learned It knows more than that: Tony wants to be the first in his family to attend college, but there’s no path to follow. He also has feelings for boys, desires that don’t align with the script he thinks is set...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows the author's apprenticeship to Allen Ginsberg and the other members of the Beats at the "Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics," a period during which he met a range of musicians, writers, and celebrities.
1453) Mascaras
Publisher
Third Woman Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
199 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 210 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Essays, speeches, and journal entries from one of our most admired and best-loved poets that illuminate how he came to understand himself as a poet, the events and people that he wrote about, and the older poets who influenced him"--
Publisher
Simon Pulse/Beyond Words
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
272 pages; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Get to know the Get Lit Players--a group of teens who use poetry to take on the world--with this common-core aligned book that sheds light on teen issues through their own poetry and slam poetry performances. Get Lit Rising brings to life the true story of nineteen teen poets (the Get Lit Players) who are inspiring thousands of teens across the country through their award-winning performances of classic and spoken word poems. This book takes readers...
1457) This is not my story
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
GN 300L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
This Is Not My Story is an adventure-filled introduction to the ten literary genres. The story starts with our hero, a brave captain flying his spaceship through an army of saucers. To defeat the aliens, all the hero has to do is push the right button and ... the hero stops the story. It turns out this is the wrong story for him. After pleading with the author to put him in the proper story, the two settle on a shoot-out in the Old West -- until the...
1458) Poet X
Author
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
1.a edición.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
348 pages ;!c22 cm
Language
Español
Description
Xiomara Batista se siente ignorada e incapaz de ocultarse en Harlem. Desde que su cuerpo se volvió curvilíneo, aprendió a dejar que sus puños y su fiereza hablaran por ella. Pero X tiene mucho para decir, por eso descarga su frustración en las páginas de un cuaderno y recita las palabras para sí misma como si fueran plegarias, especialmente después de verse invadida por fuertes sentimientos hacia un chico de la clase de biología. Ante la...
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