authorship

Struggling with school and her feelings since her father left, Sahara gets a fresh start with a new and unique teacher who supports her writing talents and the individuality of each of her classmates.

Jazmin, an African-American teenager who lives with her older sister in a small Harlem apartment in the 1960s, finds strength in writing poetry and keeping a record of the events in her sometimes difficult life.

Provides a handbook on writing, including how to build paragraphs, build essays, journal writing, poetry writing, and writing techniques.

When Sarah, an explorer mouse, meets Sam, she gives him the courage to finally climb to the highest library shelves--and beyond--and he shows her how to explore the world through reading.

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

"The eventually internationally recognized writer Lily Blennerhassett" spends her thirteenth summer missing her best friend and keeping a journal of her boring life at home and exciting newly-discovered relatives.

Sam, the shy mouse that lives in the library and likes to write books, collaborates with a boy in the library's Authors and Illustrators Club.

Henrietta the chicken loves to read so much that she decides to write a book herself, but she has trouble finding someone to publish a book written by a chicken, and then, when she publishes it herself and it gets a terrible review in "The Corn Book," Henrietta is devastated.

As sixth-grader Archie and his six-year-old brother Oggie shuttle back and forth between their separated parents' two homes, Archie tries desperately to take care of Oggie and to pretend that everything is normal.

When Henry's imagination gets mixed up with the truth during show and tell, his teacher suggests that he write and illustrate his own stories.