creative writing

After developing an unusual friendship with a young Vietnam War veteran in 1972, fourteen-year-old Todd discovers his writing talent and solves a murder mystery.

Includes 365 writing prompts to help writers of all ages experiment with words and play with language.

Explores the contradictions between what is expected of teachers and the education and support they have received, and provides teachers with advice on how to teach writing and generate their students' interest in writing.

Presents tips for writing interesting stories, passionate essays, and exciting reports, focusing on the elements of sentence structure, paragraph organization, grammar, usage, punctuation, and footnotes.

Presents the methods used in the Youth Speaks after-school poetry workshops and showcases the works of some of the program's participants.

Calma, who is smart and an excellent writer, and her unlikely friend, Kiffo, a seeming all-around failure, undertake a dangerous project when they follow an abusive teacher whom they suspect of dealing drugs.

When Katie and her family go on a trip, she decides to write a story for her friends to show how much she misses them.

Katie's school assignment is to write an "opinion piece," but she needs some guidance on just what that is, and what is should not be.

Katie and her friends explore writing different kinds of poetry about themselves and their surroundings.

Words have always been an important part of Suzanne Collins's life. As a child, she would read and re-read her favorite authors, soaking up their words like a sponge. Collins all these experiences and put them into the pages of her amazing Hunger Games books.