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Atheneum Books for Young Readers, January 2001
Trade Paperback, 144 pages
ISBN-10: 0689838875
ISBN-13: 9780689838873
Description
Newbery Medalist Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's one hundred and more books are true to life, funny, and, most of all, well written -- you'd think that she doesn't have to work at writing at all. But that's not true.
How I Came to Be a Writer is the story of one author's beginnings -- successes and failures, reviews and rejection slips -- things that mark the stages of a writer's life. Illustrated with photographs, and including samples of her earlier writing, this book will show you the inner workings of the writing process, from the spark of an idea to a book's actual publication.
This classic writer's memoir has been revised and updated to include material on the writing of the Newbery-winning Shiloh and its two sequels.
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Browse Inside HOW I CAME TO BE A WRITERPhyllis Reynolds Naylor's Books
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Including AliceIs Three a Crowd in the McKinley Household? The day that Alice has been hoping, wishing, and waiting for has finally arrived: Her father and Sylvia...Read More -
Simply AliceLife After Patrick It isn't Alice and Patrick anymore; it's simply Alice, and much to her surprise, Alice is finding that's okay. In fact, working on...Read More
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Alice in the KnowIt's the summer before junior year, and Alice is looking forward to three months of excitement, passion, and drama. But what does she find? A summer...Read More
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Intensely AliceWouldn’t it be great to go back in time to before Pam got pregnant, before Patrick left for the University of Chicago—before anyone was...Read More
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Dangerously AliceAlice has always tried to be a decent person. She gets good grades, comes home on time, and has never really given her dad and her stepmom any reason...Read More
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Almost AliceIs it possible to be too good a friend—too understanding, too always there, too much, well, like a doormat? Alice has always been a perfect...Read More
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Alice in ChargeAt last, it's Alice in Charge--of her life, of her future...but, is it too much?Read More
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Alice on Her WayFreedom! It's the moment Alice has been looking forward to for years -- her sixteenth birthday is coming up, and that means getting her driver's...Read More
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Patiently AliceIt's the summer after Alice's freshman year, she's survived her breakup with Patrick, and she and her friends are looking forwards to their jobs as...Read More
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Alice AloneStarting high school is every bit as exciting and challenging as Alice had hoped, and feared, it would be. Classes are more interesting, though...Read More
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Alice in LaceEvery girl should grow up with Alice, and with this irresistible new look, a whole new generation will want to. Alice and Patrick are getting married!...Read More
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Outrageously AliceEvery girl should grow up with Alice, and with this irresistible new look, a whole new generation will want to. Now that she is setting into eighth...Read More
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Alice the BraveEvery girl should grow up with Alice, and with this irresistible new look, a whole new generation will want to. Alice should be used to being in over...Read More
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Alice on BoardIn her last adventure before starting college, Alice takes to the open sea for the summer—and nothing can stop the tides of change.Everything...Read More
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Alice In-BetweenThirteen! It's finally happening. Alice McKinley is an actual, official teenager. But the problem is, she still sort of feels like a kid. Wasn't being...Read More
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Alice in AprilAlice in Charge It all starts when Aunt Sally reminds Alice that now that she's about to turn thirteen, she's the Woman of the House. Alice has...Read More
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Alice in Rapture, Sort OfAccording to Pamela’s cousin in New Jersey, the worst thing that can happen to a girl is to start seventh grade without a boyfriend. So Alice is...Read More
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All But AliceThere are, Alice decides, 272 horrible things left to happen to her in her life, based on the number of really horrible things that have happened...Read More
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The Agony of AliceLife, Alice McKinley feels, is just one big embarrassment. Here she is, about to be a teenager and she doesn't know how. It's worse for her than for...Read More
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Reluctantly AliceAlice McKinley comes home on the first day of junior high with a list of seven things about seventh grade that stink. Just about the only good thing...Read More
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Incredibly AliceGet ready to start your own incredible, amazing life…right? Alice McKinley is standing on the edge of something new—and half afraid she...Read More
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Alice On The OutsideIn this charming repackage from a beloved series, Alice doesn’t feel like fitting in.Alice McKinley likes her life, but she senses things are...Read More
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Achingly AliceAlice must choose between Patrick and Sam in this repackaged installment of a beloved series.How can someone be in love with two people at the same...Read More
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The Grooming of AliceGrowing up—and slimming down—is the tricky proposition in this repackaged installment of the beloved Alice series.The summer before ninth...Read More
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Please Don't Be TrueEverything can change in an instant. Everything. And then there is only before and after. Alice had a plan for her junior year. She’d laugh a...Read More
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It's Not Like I Planned It This WayThe ups and downs of high school life continue in the second and third bind-ups in the Alice series. In It's Not Like I Planned It This Way, Alice's...Read More
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I Like Him, He Likes HerFind a Penny pick it up and all day long you’ll have good luck…except, of course, if that Penny is charming and pretty and funny, and the...Read More
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Cricket ManNewbery Medal winner Phyllis Reynolds Naylor has crafted a funny and heartwarming story about a boy who wants to be a hero--and what that means.Read More
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Please Do Feed the BearsPercy's family is going on a picnic, and he can't imagine being at the beach without his favorite stuffed animals. There's his teddy, his grizzly, his...Read More
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Roxie and the HooligansDo not panic. Lord Thistlebottom's Book of Pitfalls and How to Survive Them has taught Roxie Warbler how to handle all sorts of situations. If...Read More
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Polo's MotherPolohas always longed to find his mother. All he remembers is that she was soft and warm and smelled of milk. So when sassy, street-smart Geraldine...Read More
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Lovingly AliceIn this repackaged novel in a beloved series, Alice realizes she has a lot to learn about life!Alice McKinley is finding that fifth grade is full of...Read More
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The Grand EscapeIt's a scary world out there. If only Marco hadn't read a newspaper article about a ranch and become determined to see one. If only Polo hadn't found...Read More
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The Healing of Texas JakeTexas Jake is on the mend... and the fur is really flying. Texas Jake, the big yellow tomcat, was badly injured saving his friends from the huge...Read More
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Alice in BlunderlandFourth grade is far from flawless for Alice in this beloved novel with a new look.Here are all the embarrassing things that might happen to you in the...Read More
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Witch Weed"One of the most feared of a witch's powers is that of the evil eye..." After throwing Mrs. Tuggle's evil glass eye into the creek, Lynn and her best...Read More
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Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the BelfryThere are strange goings-on once again in Middleburg. Someone has put up posters warning townspeople that the dreaded Indiana Aztec bat has been...Read More
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Blizzard's WakeKate Sterling has lost four years of her life to grief and anger. Zeke Dexter has lost four years of his life as well -- in jail for the accident that...Read More
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Starting with AliceAlice at EIGHT—boy was she a pistol! The very first book in a beloved series gets a makeover.Eight-year-old Alice McKinley wants pierced ears,...Read More
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Witch WaterFeel the darkness, touch the black, hear the shadows whispers back... Lynn and her best friend, Mouse, are convinced Mrs. Tuggle is a witch, even if...Read More
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The Witch HerselfFrom the shadows of the pool, Black as midnight, thick as gruel... Is Mrs. Tuggle a witch? Lynn and Mouse are sure she is - how else can you explain...Read More
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Witch's SisterWhen the darkness, tolls the hour, I shall have you in my power... Lynn and her best friend, Mouse, are positive their neighbor, Mrs. Tuggle, is a...Read More
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Footprints at the WindowIn this conclusion to the York Trilogy, is Dan closer to answering his questions, and discovering who left the footprints at the window? Dan has had...Read More
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Jade GreenSecrets Orphaned fifteen-year-old Judith Sparrow brings two secrets to her uncle's house in South Carolina: one, that her grief-stricken mother died...Read More
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Walker's CrossingTAKING SIDES Ryan Walker has always known what he wants to be -- a cowboy, like his father was before being injured in a riding accident. But when...Read More
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Bernie Magruder and the Disappearing BodiesBodies are coming and going from the Bessledorf Hotel -- dead and alive! Who wants to stay in a hotel full of zombies? Not too many -- and that's a...Read More
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I Can't Take You Anywhere!Here is the remarkable story of Amy Audrey Perkins. She was kind of a klutz. Things just seemed to happen wherever she went. But suddenly, something...Read More
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Sang Spelltrapped in a world that time forgot Josh is hitchhiking his way from Massachusetts to Dallas and a new life he didn't ask for and doesn't want, when...Read More
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Saving ShilohThe motion picture based on Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Newbery Medal-winning novel Shiloh was given two thumbs-up by Siskel and Ebert and went on to...Read More
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Shiloh SeasonAfter Marty Preston worked so hard to earn the dog Shiloh, he had hoped that his troubles with Judd Travers were over. He could not rescue all the dogs...Read More
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Being Danny's DogEverything's perfect at Rosemary Acres. All the streets are named after spices. The hedges and lawns are perfectly trimmed. The townhouses are all the...Read More
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The Fear PlaceFor Doug's brother, Gordie, the ridge with its spectacular view is a magical, special place, but for Doug, it's The Fear Place. Two years ago, Doug...Read More
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King of the PlaygroundKevin loves to go to the playground, but not when Sammy is there. And Sammy, who boasts that he is King of the Playground, is there most of the time....Read More
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