After twelve-year-old Natalie writes a wonderful novel, her friend Zoe helps her devise a scheme to get it accepted at the publishing house where Natalie's mother works as an editor.
Discusses some of the many ways to write a short story, explaining how to begin with an idea, create characters, plot, and dialogue, and edit the finished story.
A biographical profile of J.K. Rowling, creator of the Harry Potter series of children's books, showing how she overcame personal tragedies and difficult odds to realize her dream of becoming a writer.
Profiles the life and career of twentieth-century children's author Lois Lowry, and chronicles her childhood in New York in the 1940s, and her classic tales which includes "A Summer to Die," "Number the Stars," and "The Giver.".
Sent to live with his uncle after a violent confrontation with his stepfather, sixteen-year-old Travis, an aspiring writer, finds life in a small Oklahoma town confining until he meets an eighteen-year-old horse trainer named Casey.
After her father's death, aspiring sixth-grade writer Addy McMahon feels like she is cursed with bad luck, and when she temporarily loses her best friend, and is forced to admit that her mother is dating again, she vows she will never write another word.
With help from his friends, New York City high school student Kyle Parker sets out to save his parents' marriage by trying to get his father's novel published.
Twelve-year-old Ruby Miller, movie buff and aspiring screen writer, tries to resolve the mysteries surrounding her little brother's stuffed woolly mammoth and their father's five year absence.
