So You Want to Be a Writer?

How-to and Inspiration

Asher, Sandy. Where Do You Get Your Ideas? Helping Young Writers Begin. J 808.02 ASH
Bauer, Marion Dane. Our Stories: A Fiction Workshop for Young Authors. J 808.31 BAU
Carroll, David. A Manual of Writers’ Tricks. 808.02 CAR
Chicken Soup for the Writer’s Soul. 808.02 CHI
Christelow, Eileen. What Do Authors Do? J 808.068 CHR
Cook, Marshall. Freeing Your Creativity: A Writer’s Guide. 808.02 COO
Henderson, Kathy. The Young Writer’s Guide to Getting Published. YA 808.02 HEN
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night. AC 817.08 IT
Wulffson, Don. Great Stories Behind Famous Books.*

Fiction (stories)

Creech, Sharon. Love That Dog. J FIC CRE
Ellison, James. Finding Forrester.*
Gantos, Jack. Jack’s Black Book. YA FIC GAN
Grimes, Nikki. Jazmin’s Notebook. YA FIC GRI
Nixon, Jean Lowery. The Name of the Game Was Murder. YA FIC NIX
Thomas, Rob. Rats Saw God. YA FIC THO
Wittlinger, Ellen. Hard Love. YA FIC WIT

Written By Teens

25 and Under: Fiction YA FIC TWE
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. In the Forests of the Night. YA FIC ATW
Hinton, S. E. The Outsiders. YA FIC HIN

Paolini, Christopher. Eragon. YA FIC PAO & Eldest YA FIC PAO

Author Biographies

Duncan, Lois. Who Killed My Daughter? 362.152 DUN
Fleischman, Sid. The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer’s Life. J 818 FLE
Paulsen, Gary. Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer. YA FIC PAU
Paulsen, Gary. Eastern Sun, Winter Moon: An Autobiographical Odyssey. 818 PAU
The Writer’s Journal: 40 Contemporary American Writers and Their Journals. 818.08 WRI

Web Sites

Jervis Library’s Teen Web Page allows you to submit a book review and find other writing and reading resources.
www.jervislibrary.org/YAweb/booklists.html

Teenink.com is the online version of TeenInk magazine. All content is generated by teen writers.

Teenreads.com is all about books aimed at teens. Want to write? Then read, read, read. Try some of their recommended reads.

Teenwriters is a Yahoo Group Electronic Mailing List on which teens share and critique their original works.
groups.yahoo.com/group/teenwriters

Also see our “Teens Who Hate Poetry” booklist!

*These books are available through Interlibrary Loan.

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