Provides suggestions for developing plots, characters, and settings for adventure, history, and fantasy stories, and offers tips on getting published.

Presents a guide to writing short stories, providing step-by-step advice for specific ways to craft different kinds of stories, including project ideas and resources to find more information.

Twelve-year-old Autumn wants more than anything to be a real author, but when she wins a contest by writing something too personal about her brother, she has to decide if her dreams are more important than their relationship.

Explores ways to avoid plagiarism when doing research and writing reports and other written materials.

Featuring interviews with published poets, a wonderful guide, drawn from a wealth of experience, demystifies the writing process, revealing how to look deep inside for emotions, image, and music, and how to revise writing to make it magical.

Shows educators how to use popular fairy tales and their characters to help students develop problem solving abilities, critical thinking skills, and writing proficiency.

In 1863, a sixteen-year-old boy nicknamed Scrib travels around the West making his living writing and delivering letters, an occupation that leads to him nearly getting killed, being jailed as a criminal, joining up with the notorious Crazy James Kincaid, and delivering a letter from President Abraham Lincoln to a Paiute Indian.

Contains the biography of Sequoyah, a member of the Cherokee nation who was born in the 1760s in eastern Tennessee and who developed the first written alphabet and language for the Cherokee people. Presented in English and Cherokee.

Scrawl! explores the early writing systems of the Middle East, the Mediterranean, China, and the Americas. The writers of these regions wrote on a wide variety of materials.

Profiles famous cases solved by handwriting analysis, including the Lindbergh kidnapping and the Hitler diaries; and explores careers in forensic document examination.

Presents a guide to codemaking, codebreaking, and their role in history, describing different types of codes and ciphers, discussing codebreaking and concealment techniques, and including brief stories about exciting moments in the history of the art.

Examines ancient methods of communication in the Middle East, India, China, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Mesoamerica.