Product Description: Becoming a better writer begins with reading well-written books and trying what their authors do successfully. So why not help middle schoolers improve their writing by exposing them to mentor texts written just for them? Culham, Blasingame, and Coutu have selected 150 fiction and nonfiction books by master writers, annotated them, and organized them by trait...read more

Provides teaching strategies; annotated lists organized by theme, genre, topic, and reading level; and interviews with a variety of young adult authors.