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: | 9780448486734 |
| Publication date: | 23rd August 2016 |
| Author: | Mike Winchell, Eglantine Ceulemans |
| Illustrator: | Eglantine Ceulemans |
| Publisher: | Grosset & Dunlap an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 304 pages |
| Series: | Been There, Done That |
| Genres: |
Educational: First / native language: Reading and writing skills Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE) |