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61) Inkheart
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the award winning, 10 part archival program series, "Filmmakers on Film," this documentary premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and is produced by Reel Women Media. Explore the challenging world of the screenwriter with renowned industry writers. Features: Jay Presson Allen, Harriet Frank Jr., Fay Kanin, Margarethe von Trotta, and Euzhan Palcy. Ally Acker is the director of the ten part archival program series, "Filmmakers on Film.”...
65) Afterworlds
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"SOME PIG," Charlotte the spider's praise for Wilbur, is just one fondly remembered snippet from E. B. White's Charlotte's Web. In Some Writer!, the two-time Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet mixes White's personal letters, photos, and family ephemera with her own exquisite artwork to tell his story, from his birth in 1899 to his death in 1985. Budding young writers will be fascinated and inspired by the journalist, New Yorker contributor, and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing. For many years, Nikki's notebooks were her most enduing companions. In this accessible and inspiring...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Named after a character in a Shakespeare play, misfit sixth-grader Hero becomes interested in exploring this unusual connection because of a valuable diamond supposedly hidden in her new house, an intriguing neighbor, and the unexpected attention of the most popular boy in school.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John Le Carr�e has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his highly anticipated memoir, Le Carr�e is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity...
75) Tomie de Paola
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Pub
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of the author-illustrator who has won numerous awards and prizes, including the Caldecott Medal, for his children's books.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Secret Keeper and The Distant Hours, an intricately plotted, spellbinding new novel of heartstopping suspense and uncovered secrets. Living on her family's idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented sixteen-year-old who loves to write stories. But the mysteries she pens are no match for the one her family...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Thomas Jefferson is a two-part portrait of one of the most fascinating and complicated figures ever to walk across America’s public stage – our enigmatic and brilliant third president. Thomas Jefferson embodies within his own life the most profound contradictions of American history: as the author of our most sacred document, the Declaration of Independence, he gave voice to our fervent desire for freedom, but he also owned more than 150 human...
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