Word After Word After Word
Every school day feels the same for fourth graders Lucy and Henry and Evie and Russell and May. Then Ms. Mirabel comes to their class—bringing magical words and a whole new way of seeing and understanding.From beloved author Patricia MacLachlan comes an honest, inspiring story about what is real...
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Every school day feels the same for fourth graders Lucy and Henry and Evie and Russell and May. Then Ms. Mirabel comes to their class—bringing magical words and a whole new way of seeing and understanding.From beloved author Patricia MacLachlan comes an honest, inspiring story about what is real and what is unreal, and about the ways that writing can change our lives and connect us to our own stories—word after word after word.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780060279714 (0060279710)
Publish date: May 18th 2010
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
This book on writing, aimed at elementary-schoolers, opens with a quote from Joan Didion:I write to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. While I wouldn't say I disagree with this sentiment -- those are valid reasons to write and ...
This book brought me back to my days of second grade, when my class read "Sarah, Plain and Tall." If this book was around back then, my class would've flocked right to it (or, at least, our teacher might have). This is a short book, but its brevity does not mean it isn't worthwhile. The five kids ar...
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