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When Long Island teens Miri, Soleil, Penny, and Jonah befriend a bestselling YA novelist, they find their deepest, darkest secrets in the pages of her next novel, with devastating consequences. Told from different perspectives as interviews, journal entries, and book excerpts.
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Excited by the idea that authors actually get paid real money for writing books, Molly Mac is determined to get the author visiting her class to reveal the secret to his success, even going so far as to build a special mind-controlling hat to steal the secret if necessary--but she is discouraged by what he tells the class.
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Adventures of Salma volume 2
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"Salma is going to be a big sister! She's determined to be the best sister ever, so she sets out to write the ultimate guidebook to siblinghood. But the more Salma learns about siblings, the more confused she gets, especially since her mama is fighting with her own brother, Khalou Dawood, about who he loves. Can Salma figure out what it means to be a good sister before the baby arrives?"--
44) Book of screams
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"A delightfully creepy collection of tales about everything from a Jekyll/Hyde homeroom teacher to a boiler-room ghoul to a kid's wobbly "baby eye," woven between excerpts from a central story about a girl whose favourite horror author is stealing children's nightmares for his books."--
45) Emily's quest
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Emily Starr trilogy volume 3
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Emily knows she's going to be a great writer. She also knows that she and her childhood sweetheart, Teddy Kent, will conquer the world together. But when Teddy leaves home to pursue his goal to become an artist at the School of Design in Montreal, Emily's world collapses. With Teddy gone, Emily agrees to marry a man she doesn't love ... as she tries to banish all thoughts of Teddy. In her heart, Emily must search for what being a writer really means......
46) Nightbooks
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Alex's original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping the witch Natacha happy, but soon he'll run out of pages to read from and be trapped forever. He's loved scary stories his whole life, and he knows most don't have a happily ever after. Now that Alex is trapped in a true terrifying tale, he's desperate for a different ending--and a way out of this twisted place. This modern spin on the Scheherazade story is perfect for fans of Coraline...
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Bunnicula series volume 7
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An overly-alarmed Chester the cat predicts a gruesome fate for the pets in the Monroe household when a writer of juvenile horror fiction and his bird companion stay overnight.
48) One great lie
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When Charlotte wins a scholarship to a writing workshop in Venice with the charismatic and brilliant Luca Bruni, it's a dream come true. Writing is her passion, she loves Bruni's books, and going to that romantic and magical sinking city gives her the chance to solve a long-time family mystery about a Venetian poet deep in their lineage, Isabella Di Angelo, who just might be the real author of a very famous poem. Bruni's villa on the eerie island...
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Swallowtail legacy volume 2
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Swallowtail Island is hosting the Swallowtales Writer's Conference. Lark's ecstatic to be chosen as a "page" for her favorite author, Ann E. Keyhart. But they say you should never meet your idols. When Keyhart arrives with her personal assistant in tow, she is nothing but a terror. And within a few hours, the assistant is dead! But the explanation isn't sitting well. Not when lots of people had reasons to want to be rid of Keyhart, and especially...
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"La vida de un niño nacido en la frontera no es fácil, pero Güero sabe cómo hacerle frente: escribiendo poemas. Güero tiene doce años y es mexicano y americano al mismo tiempo. Sabe sentirse en casa en ambos lados del rio, y en su vida hay tanto español como inglés. Güero ha comenzado el séptimo año en la escuela, y su profe de inglés hace que hasta los poemas suenen cool. Güero es como llaman a los chicos como el: pálidos. Pero no te...
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Black Authors: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Diversity in YA Fiction
K&T - Black History Month
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Diversity in YA Fiction
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"An anthology featuring over thirty Black authors and illustrators to honor Black life past, present, and future"--
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"Un escritor famoso viene de visita a Arbolópolis. Eva debe escribir un cuento para mostrárselo. Pero se le pierde su mascota y no puede pensar en otra cosa que en Gastón. ¿Podrá estar lista a tiempo para la visita del famoso escritor?"--Provided by publisher.
"In book 6, a famous author is coming to Treetopolis! Eva and her classmates each have to write a story to share with the author. Eva's excited! But then something terrible happens: Her...
54) The fire within
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Animal-Themed Books for Older Readers
For Fans of Wings of Fire (SCPL-YS)
Middle School Series
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For Fans of Wings of Fire (SCPL-YS)
Middle School Series
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When college student David Rain rents a room in an unusual boradinghouse 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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"A Sofia le encanta escribir historias, pero, a veces, es dificil decidir sobre qué escribir...Por suerte, tiene una imaginación salvaje, llena de personajes más grandes que la vida. Un unicornio brillante, un león presumido y unos pingüinos artistas lo intentarán todo para llamar su atención y convertirse en protagonistas de su cuento. Pero hay una pequeña criatura a la que no se le presta la atención que merece, y está decidida a demostrar...
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Hola, me llamo Andy. Este de aquí es mi amigo Terry. Vivimos juntos en un árbol. Bueno, cuando digo "un árbol" me refiero a una casa en el árbol. Y cuando digo "una casa en el árbol" no me refiero a la típica casucha hecha con cuatro tablones, ¡sino a una casa en el árbol de 13 pisos! Tenemos una pista de bolos, una piscina transparente,un estanque lleno de tiburones asesinos, lianas de las que colgarse, un cuarto de juegos, un laboratorio...
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Treehouse series volume 1
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Who wouldn't want to live in a treehouse? Especially a 13-story treehouse that has a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of sharks, a library full of comics, a secret underground laboratory, a games room, self-making beds, vines you can swing on, a vegetable vaporizer and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and automatically shoots your favorite flavored marshmallows into your mouth whenever it discerns you're hungry....
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43 Old Cemetery Road volume 2
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In this story told mostly through letters, busybody Dick Tater tries to ban Halloween and ghost stories, as well as to break up the popular writing team of I. B. Grumply, ghost Olive C. Spence, and eleven-year-old illustrator Seymour Hope.
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43 Old Cemetery Road volume 1
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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.
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