Been there, done that : writing stories from real life

BTSB Prebound(Grosset & Dunlap, 2015)

BTSB #: 955878 Available

Dewey: 808/SAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.3 MG Lexile: 860

Genres:

Subjects: Short stories Authorship

Summary: Where do authors get their ideas? And how do they turn those ideas into stories? This anthology looks at the process of taking real-life experiences and turning them into works of engaging fiction. The collection features award-winning and bestselling middle-grade authors who provide both original fictional short stories as well as the nonfiction accounts that inspired them.

Brown girl dreaming by Woodson, Jacqueline 

BTSB Prebound(Nancy Paulsen, 2014)

BTSB #: 964784 Available

Dewey: 811/BAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.3 MG RC: 8.4 6-8 Lexile: 990

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Subjects: Woodson, Jacqueline - Poetry American authors African American women authors

Summary: The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South.

Investigating fault lines [Earth science detectives]by Coleman, Miriam 

BTSB Prebound(PowerKids, 2016)

BTSB #: 230223 Available

Dewey: 551.8/NAges: 9-12   
AR: 5.1 LG RC: 5.4 3-5 Lexile: 920

Genres:

Subjects: Faults (Geology) Earthquakes Plate tectonics

Summary: Examines fault lines and explains how scientists use them as clues about what's happening under the Earth's surface.

Key that swallowed Joey Pigza [Joey Pigza]by Gantos, Jack 

BTSB Prebound(Farrar, Straus Giroux, 2014)

BTSB #: 366157 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.4 MG RC: 7.6 6-8 Lexile: 970

Genres: Humorous Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Attention-deficit disorder - Fiction Single-parent families - Fiction Infants - Fiction Brothers - Fiction

Summary: Everything goes topsy-turvy for Joey as he becomes the man of the house, looking after his new baby brother, taking care of his troubled mother, and seeking out his missing father.

Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison [Dynamic duos of science]by Hardyman, Robyn 

BTSB Prebound(Gareth Stevens, 2015)

BTSB #: 418884 Available

Dewey: 621.3/CAges: 10-14   
Lexile: 950

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Subjects: Tesla, Nikola,|d1856-1943 Edison, Thomas A.|q(Thomas Alva),|d1847-1931 Electrical engineers Inventors

Summary: Learn how these geniuses revolutionized electricity and society in the late 1800s, as well as the science behind many of their inventions and experiments.

Panama Canal [Cornerstones of freedom]by Benoit, Peter 

BTSB Prebound(Children's Press, 2014)

BTSB #: 111285 Available

Dewey: 972.87/NAges: 10-13   
AR: 7.4 MG RC: 10.2 6-8 Lexile: 1080

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Subjects: Canals Panama Canal (Panama) - History Canal Zone

Summary: In 1881, French developers began an attempt to build a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Learn about the difficulties faced in planning and building the Panama Canal.

Tiny piece of sky by Stout, Shawn K. 

BTSB Prebound(Philomel Books, 2016)

BTSB #: 859212 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
Lexile: 830

Genres: Historical Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Family life - Maryland - Fiction Father-daughter relationship - Fiction German Americans - Fiction Prejudices - Fiction Hagerstown (Md.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In 1939 Hagerstown, Maryland, eleven-year-old Frankie faces suspicion that her German-born father is a Nazi spy.