creative writing

The MYSTERIES OF HARRIS BURDICK is a sequence of carefully crafted pictures and clever captions, with plot, character, and theme eliminated, to allow the student to create stories based on the pictures. Includes worksheets, as well as a set of questions about each picture.

A visiting poet, Ms. Mirabel, teaches five friends in grade school about the power of words and writing.

Offers hundreds of sensible, useful tips designed to help people become better writers.

Provides young writers with tips and advice on writing works of fiction. Discusses how to create characters, settings, and dialogue and offers tips and advice on editing and sharing one's writing.

A guide to the writing process, covering story, language, detail, character, writing an outline, and more.

Briefly explains the nature of a computer, describes how to use a word-processing program to create and save your writing, and suggests activities to develop use of language, good sentence structure, and effective storytelling.

An admittedly "dork" middle-school teacher arranges for a rock superstar to teach her eighth-grade students, who each tell a story about the same topic, in the style of a rap, poem, monologue, screenplay, haiku, fairytale, and more.

A collection of collages by Lynda Barry that explores the themes of memory and the writing process.

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.

"Want to write a book? Well, the spunky, know-it-all narrator of this side-splitting story can tell you just how to do it"--Provided by publisher.