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Gooney Bird volume 3
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English
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Gooney Bird Greene takes charge of a class project as she and her fellow students in Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class learn about fables by each making up their own based on an animal that begins with the same letter as their first name.
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Series
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Español
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Yasmin struggles with Ms. Alex's assignment to write an essay about her hero until she realizes that her hero is someone very close to her.
"La Srta. Alex ha asignado a la clase de Yasmin la tarea de escribir sobre sus h�eroes y hero�inas. A Yasmin le encanta escribir, pero no sabe qu�e persona elegir. Despu�es de descartar muchas ideas, �podr�ia ser que el h�eroe o hero�ina de Yasmin hubiera estado junto a ella todo el tiempo"--
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Cooperatively writing a story for school, a girl imagines a king and queen who have a baby named Sweet Piper who can talk to birds, while a boy names the baby Sweet Viper and gives him super-strength, cool wrestling moves, and a motorcycle and sunglasses.
10) Lety alza su voz
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Language
Español
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Hispanic Heritage Month - More Spanish & Bilingual Kids Titles
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Writing - Youth
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Writing - Youth
Description
When Lety jumps at the chance to write animal profiles for the Furry Friends Animal Shelter, she is forced to team up with a grumpy classmate named Hunter, who devises a contest to decide who gets to be the official shelter scribe.
11) Idea jar
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"The idea jar is where students keep their ideas--anything from a Viking to a space robot to a giant dragon. These ideas can be combined to make new exciting stories. But watch out when the ideas escape the jar--they might get a little rowdy"--Amazon.com.
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Series
Scraps of time volume 3
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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In the summer of 1928, Lilly Belle Turner of Smyrna, Tennessee, participates in a young author's writing program, taught by Zora Neale Hurston and hosted by A'Lelia Walker in her Harlem teahouse at the height of the Harlem Renaissance.
13) A squiggly story
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English
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A young boy wants to write a story, just like his big sister. But there's a problem, he tells her. Though he knows his letters, he doesn't know many words. His sister patiently explains, "Every story starts with a single word and every word starts with a single letter. Why don't you start there, with a letter?" So the boy tries. He writes a letter. An easy letter. The letter I. And from that one skinny letter, the story grows, and the little boy discovers...
14) Abdul's story
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Language
English
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Black History Month - Children
Disability Pride Month - Children
Día Booklist (K-Grade 2) 2023
Writing - Youth
Disability Pride Month - Children
Día Booklist (K-Grade 2) 2023
Writing - Youth
Description
Abdul loves telling stories but thinks his messy handwriting and spelling mistakes will keep him from becoming an author, until Mr. Muhammad visits and encourages him to persist.
15) Lety out loud
Author
Series
Furry Friends Animal Shelter volume 2
Language
English
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Hispanic Heritage Month - More Tween Titles
National Hobby Month - Tweens
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Writing - Youth
National Hobby Month - Tweens
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Writing - Youth
Description
"Lety Muñoz's first language is Spanish, and she likes to take her time putting her words together. She loves volunteering at the Furry Friends Animal Shelter because the dogs and cats there don't care if she can't always find the right word. When the shelter needs a volunteer to write animal profiles, Lety jumps at the chance. But grumpy classmate Hunter also wants to write profiles--so now they have to work as a team ... [Hunter] devises a secret...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"During a creative writing unit at Longfellow School, the students in Mrs. Brisbane's class practice using their imagination with their very own writing journals--and Humphrey finds out that writing from his imagination is harder than it looks"--
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Series
Gregory K. (Greg Pincus) volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Gregory Korenstein-Jasperton is an eleven-year-old boy who likes to write stories and poems and is not excited by math, but he has a problem--he is the middle child in a family of math geniuses and his father expects him to participate in the City Math contest.
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