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If eleven-year-old Sara and her brother Hawk can complete a task involving the reclusive author renting out the silo on their farm for the summer, they will receive reward money that will pay for Sara's life-saving surgery.

"Andy and Terry are once again inviting readers to come hang out with them in their astonishing 39-story treehouse (it used to be 13 stories, then 26 stories, but they keep expanding). And this year they will have even more time to jump on the world's highest trampoline, toast marshmallows in an active volcano, swim in the chocolate waterfall, pet baby dinosaurs, and go head-to-trunk with the Trunkinator, since Terry has created the greatest invention that he-or anyone else-has ever invented . . . a Once-upon-a-time machine that will write and illustrate their entire book for them!"--OCLC.

This filmstrip deals in part with author's childhood and travels. It also focuses on her writing, her thoughts and feelings about it, and some explanations of why she wrote as she did.

Viewers accompany Jean Craighead George on a walk through autumn woods, learn about her childhood, her prolific career, and details of how she came to write her award-winning books.

A short biography of Beverly Cleary, including her complaint as a child that there were no books about ordinary children, which helped to inspire her books about them..

"Jean Fritz recalls her childhood in China, her special relationship with her beloved AMAH, her adventures with her best friend, and shares the feelings of alienation that came of being an American attending a British school in China.".

Chronicles the life and career of African American author Richard Wright, who wrote about racial discrimination and injustice in the mid-1900s.

"A down-and-out so-and-so gets more than she bargained for when her circle of literary friends' infamous book club turns from talk of the lettered world to a nightmare without seeming end. If she's not careful, this may very well be the LAST book party"--Provided by publisher.

Seventeen-year-old Livvy Flynn, a bestselling author of YA fiction, is kidnapped by a woman and her apparently manic daughter who have no intention of letting her go.

A story told mostly through letters in which 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.