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Product Description: In this collection of anecdotes, lessons, quotes, and prompts, author and writing teacher Barbara Abercrombie provides a delightfully varied cornucopia of inspiration — nuts-and-bolts solutions, hand-holding commiseration, and epiphany-fueling insights from fellow writers, including Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners and Abercrombie’s students who have gone from paralyzed to published...read more

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9781608680511, titled "A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration & Encouragement" | New World Library, June 12, 2012, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In this collection of anecdotes, lessons, quotes, and prompts, author and writing teacher Barbara Abercrombie provides a delightfully varied cornucopia of inspiration — nuts-and-bolts solutions, hand-holding commiseration, and epiphany-fueling insights from fellow writers, including Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners and Abercrombie’s students who have gone from paralyzed to published.

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Product Description: Because “grieving for an animal can be a pretty lonely place,” Barbara Abercrombie created this joyful, poignant, funny, and smart collection of commiseration. Readers meet the cat who entered a neighbor’s window and got in bed with strangers, the dog who demanded down pillows, and even a coyote who became part of the family...read more

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9781577319573 | New World Library, April 1, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Because “grieving for an animal can be a pretty lonely place,” Barbara Abercrombie created this joyful, poignant, funny, and smart collection of commiseration.

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Paperback:

9781577316015, titled "Courage & Craft: Writing Your Life into Story" | New World Library, August 28, 2007, cover price $16.95

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When Matthew has nothing for show-and-tell one day, he tells the class that he has a lion living at his house, but when his classmates want to come see it, he must decide what to do.

School and Library:

9780689864087 | Margaret K McElderry, June 20, 2006, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: When Matthew has nothing for show-and-tell one day, he tells the class that he has a lion living at his house, but when his classmates want to come see it he must decide what to do.

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Drawing on her own experiences as a breast cancer survivor, the author explains how to use writing as a therapeutic way to deal with serious illness or injury, explaining how writing helped her and others--including Stephen King and Lance Armstrong--through the healing process. Original. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Paperback:

9780312285456 | 1 edition (Griffin, September 1, 2002), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Drawing on her own experiences as a breast cancer survivor, the author explains how to use writing as a therapeutic way to deal with serious illness or injury, explaining how writing helped her and others--including Stephen King and Lance Armstrong--through the healing process.

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When Dodger, Sam's new puppy, wreaks havoc all over the house by spilling trash, chewing Sam's baseball, and jumping into the bathtub with Sam's older sister, Sam tries in vain to get him to behave, but when Dodger interrupts Sam's first Little League game, hilarious events ensue, causing Dodger to become an honorary member of Sam's Little League baseball team.
By Barbara Abercrombie and Adam Gustavson (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780689837821 | 1 edition (Margaret K McElderry, May 1, 2002), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Nine-year-old Sam decides to teach his new puppy to behave, but not before Dodger has scared his sister, pulled down some curtains, and stopped a baseball game.

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Elizabeth and Sarah enjoy the company of Charlie, a stray cat who has adopted them, but the girls are mystified by Charlie's disappearances each day until they discover the cat's secret

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9780689801143 | Reprint edition (Margaret K McElderry, March 1, 1995), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: A cat comes out of the night to steal the hearts of two sisters who look forward to his sleeping on their beds, until one day Charlie doesn't come home and they learn a surprising secret about him.

School and Library:

9780689504860 | Margaret K McElderry, October 1, 1990, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A cat comes out of the night to steal the hearts of two sisters who look forward to his sleeping on their beds, until one day Charlie doesn't come home and they learn a surprising secret about him.

Prebinding:

9780785763833 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: A cat comes out of the night to steal the hearts of two sisters who look forward to his sleeping on their beds, until one day Charlie doesn't come home and they learn a surprising secret about him.

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During a visit to his aunt and uncle, Michael is delighted to discover that they have two cats, and he sets out to make friends with the felines. By the author of Charlie Anderson.
By Barbara Abercrombie and Mark Graham (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780689505430 | 1 edition (Margaret K McElderry, September 1, 1993), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: On a visit to his aunt and uncle, Michael is delighted by their two cats but must learn the proper way to make friends with them

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A recently remarried mother of three teenagers, intent on running a full marathon and on writing a serious suspense novel, finds herself and her children the targets of a possible murderer

Hardcover:

9780688015527 | William Morrow & Co, February 1, 1984, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A recently remarried mother of three teenagers, intent on running a full marathon and on writing a serious suspense novel, finds herself and her children the targets of a possible murderer

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9780449206690 | Reprint edition (Crest, June 1, 1986), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: A recently remarried mother of three teenagers, intent on running a full marathon and on writing a serious suspense novel, finds herself and her children the targets of a possible murderer

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Instead of the endless shuttle between parents Kate has known since her parents were divorced, she wants a normal, loving family, and her eccentric grandmother is the only person who understands

Paperback:

9780590327275 | Scholastic Paperbacks, March 1, 1983, cover price $1.95 | About this edition: Instead of the endless shuttle between parents Kate has known since her parents were divorced, she wants a normal, loving family, and her eccentric grandmother is the only person who understands

Library:

9780060200312, titled "Cat-Man's Daughter" | Harpercollins, September 1, 1981, cover price $12.89 | About this edition: Instead of the endless shuttle between parents Kate has known since her parents were divorced, she wants a normal, loving family, and her eccentric grandmother is the only person who understands

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Poems and parts-of-poems by well-known American authors serve to show young readers the many ways in which poems amuse and affect them
By Barbara Abercrombie (editor) and Harry Bertschmann (editor)

Library:

9780060200299 | Harpercollins, March 1, 1977, cover price $10.89 | About this edition: Contemporary American poems grouped according to the effects they achieve such as making pictures or music, explaining feelings, or telling a story.

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