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On June 8, 2020, 6-year-old Alyssa McClelland’s first book was published. My Big Curly Fro helped her express her emotions after being teased at school for her hair, and educates others about cultural and personal identification, low self-esteem, how to overcome insecurities, and how to create strong and meaningful friendships.
Alyssa is one of a long list of child authors, including Amanda Gorman (America’s first National Youth Poet Laureate), Ally Sheedy (She Was Nice to Mice), and Christopher Paolini (Eragon). But the list goes beyond famous or best-selling writers. Schools have many examples of books produced by students or classes, such as Where the Mountains Meet the Plains: The Cimarron Country Past and Present, written by the 4th grade class at the Cimarron Elementary School in New Mexico.
Alyssa is one of a long list of child authors, including Amanda Gorman (America’s first National Youth Poet Laureate), Ally Sheedy (She Was Nice to Mice), and Christopher Paolini (Eragon). But the list goes beyond famous or best-selling writers. Schools have many examples of books produced by students or classes, such as Where the Mountains Meet the Plains: The Cimarron Country Past and Present, written by the 4th grade class at the Cimarron Elementary School in New Mexico.
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My big curly fro
Alyssa "loves going to school and meeting with her friends, but isn't a very big fan of her hair, which is so different from the others'. How does she get to fit in with her friends who do not have her kind of hair, and why is hers not as lovely as…
A heartsongs treasury
Mattie Stepanek has touched the hearts of thousands of people. His best-selling books of poetry are joyful, profound, and lasting. Growing up with arareform of muscular dystropy -- the same disease that took the lives of his three siblings -- has…
Where the mountains meet the plains: The Cimarron country past and present
Lore of the West, life of the Cimarron country, and amazing historical lessons were delved into by the fourth grade students of the Cimarron Elementary School. A diverse collage of learning avenues were researched. Elders from the community, guest…
Do hard things : a teenage rebellion against low expectations
Two Christian teenage writers challenge their peers to create a brighter future, combating the idea of adolescence as a vacation from responsibility and providing humorous personal anecdotes, practical examples, and stories of real-life…
Eragon
Book One in the Inheritance Cycle
In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
PHYDES: 517 pages :…
PHYDES: 517 pages :…
St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian
St. Irvyne: or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance is a Gothic horror novel written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1810 and published by John Joseph Stockdale in December of that year, dated 1811, in London anonymously as "by a Gentleman of the University of…
Zastrozzi
Zastrozzi: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Percy Bysshe Shelley first published in 1810 in London by George Wilkie and John Robinson anonymously, with only the initials of the author's name, as "by P. B. S.". The first of Shelley's two early Gothic…
The diary of a young girl
The Diary of a Young Girl, also known as The Diary of Anne Frank, is a book of writings from the Dutch-language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The diary…
How to talk to girls
Leave it to a nine-year-old to get down to the basics about how to win victory with girl. HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS is for boys of all ages--from eight to eighty--and the girls they like.
Juvenilia; or a collection of poems
Juvenilia, was a collection of poems written by James Henry Leigh Hunt at a young age and published in March 1801. As an unknown author, Hunt's work was not accepted by any professional publishers, and his father Isaac Hunt instead entered into an…