"In this lively nonfiction book for young readers, bestselling author Gail Carson Levine shares her secrets of great writing"--

Katie's school assignment is to write an "opinion piece", but she needs some guidance on just what that is, and what is should not be.

Katie and her friends explore writing different kinds of poetry about themselves and their surroundings.

Learn how to research a subject and give a detailed report on the information you discovered.

Katharine turns Mrs. Bingsley's lessons in creative writing into a competition between herself and her schoolmate Vanessa.

Mrs. Pidgeon has been reading Aesop's fables to her second grade class. What's a fable? Well, it's a story that has animals as characters, and it teaches you something important, and... Once again it is Gooney Bird Greene who knows how to turn lessons into fun. She has an idea. A fabulous idea! What if each child creates his or her own fable, and tells it to the class? One by one Mrs. Pidgeon's students create costumes and stories and morals and excitement....

Learn how to organize your ideas for a speech and how to talk in front of an audience.

Find out how you can create interesting stories based on your real-life experiences.

Gives suggestions for combining creative writing, calligraphy, and art work to produce unique and personal gifts such as stationery, postcards, posters, greetings cards, books of several types, and holiday projects.

Rachel, a teenager with a healthy dose of both aptitude and attitude, begins to feel at home volunteering at an animal shelter until the arrival of a feral dog with whom she senses a special kinship.