Overview

Award-winning and bestselling authors turn their own real-life experiences into captivating works of fiction!

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. The contributing authors include Julia Alvarez, Karen Cushman, Margarita Engle, Dee Garretson, Nathan Hale, Matthew Kirby, Claire Legrand, Grace Lin, Kate Messner, Linda Sue Park, Adam Rex, Gary Schmidt, Alan Sitomer, Caroline Starr Rose, Heidi Stemple, Rita Williams-Garcia, Tracy Edward Wymer, Lisa Yee, and Jane Yolen.

ISBN-13

9780448486727

ISBN-10

0448486725

Weight

1.20 Pounds

Dimensions

6.31 x 1.00 x 9.31 In

List Price

$17.99

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

304 pages

Publisher

Grosset & Dunlap

Published On

2015-11-03



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