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1) Inkheart
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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.
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Best Wordplay Picture Books
Diverse Books - African American/ Black Experience in the U.S.
Preschool Read Alikes for 2024 Nashville Reads!
Diverse Books - African American/ Black Experience in the U.S.
Preschool Read Alikes for 2024 Nashville Reads!
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Jerome enjoys collecting and using words that he hears, reads, or sees, and then decides to share his collection with others.
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Lorraine: The Girl Who Sang the Storm Away 2024
Picture Books about Books & Libraries
Preschool Read Alikes for 2024 Nashville Reads!
Picture Books about Books & Libraries
Preschool Read Alikes for 2024 Nashville Reads!
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Sam, a shy but creative mouse who lives in a library, decides to write and illustrate his own stories which he places on the shelves with the other library books but when children find the tales, they all want to meet the author.
11) Dear Max
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As Max--who is almost ten--and his favorite author, D.J. Lucas, exchange letters, the two writers help each other with their new books and develop a special friendship.
15) Gravebooks
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"Alex again has to write stories to survive, this time learning to finish discarded ideas and overcome writer's block, after he's held hostage in his dreams by fear vampire Simeon, working alongside evil witch Natacha in a story graveyard"--
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"Once upon a time there was a story no one has ever heard before, inspired by a carrot on the run, a knight who'd trade his sword for a pal, and an alien who just wants to get some rest and relaxation. It's a story about how to tell a story. From choosing a main character to crafting a problem to solve to arriving at a satisfying conclusion"--
17) The bronze pen
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With her father's failing health and the family's shaky finances, twelve-year-old Audrey's dreams of becoming a writer seem very impractical until she is given a peculiar bronze pen that appears to have unusual powers.
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Although not thrilled when her summer plans are upended for a surprise cross-country train trip with her family and embarrassed because one of her moms is writing a tell-all book about the trip, twelve-year-old Sara Johnston-Fischer finds herself changing along with the landscape outside the train windows.
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Many children want to know where stories come from and how a book is made. Marie-Louise Gay's new picture book provides them some answers though a fictional encounter between an author and some very curious children. Together, they write and illustrate a story. Marie-Louise Gay has scribbled, sketched, scrawled, doodled, penciled, collaged, and painted the words and pictures of a story-within-a-story that show how brilliant ideas creep up on you when...
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