If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Poems About School

8 best books like If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand: Poems About School (Kalli Dakos): A Wind in the Door, Rules, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Wonderstruck, The Accident, Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook: Hands-On Help for Making Your Novel Stand Out and Succeed, Around the Writer's Block: Using Brain Science to Solve Writer's Resistance, Summer Frost

A Wind in the Door

Author

Madeleine L'Engle

Every time a star goes out, another Echthros has won a battle.

Just before Meg Murry's little brother, Charles Wallace, falls deathly ill, he sees dragons in the vegetable garden. The dragons turn out to be Proginoskes, a cherubim composed out wings and eyes, wind and flame. It is up to Meg and...

Rules

Author	Cynthia Lord
ISBN	0439443822

Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. She's spent years trying to teach David the rules-from "a peach is not a funny-looking apple" to "keep your pants on in public"-in order...

A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Author	Madeleine L'Engle
ISBN	0440401585

In this companion volume to A Wrinkle In Time (Newbery Award winner) and A Wind In The Door fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not...

Wonderstruck

Author	Brian Selznick
ISBN	0545027896

Ben and Rose secretly wish for better lives. Ben longs for the father he has never known. Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his mother's room and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out alone...

The Accident

Author	Diane Hoh
ISBN	0590443305

She appears in Megan's mirror one day, nothing more than a wispy, shadowy plume, glowing with an eerie light. Her voice is faint and hollow, like a distant echo. The voice of a young girl.
Strangest of all is her request.
"I beg you to trade places with me, Megan. For just one week. Let me live again."
Megan...

Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook: Hands-On Help for Making Your Novel Stand Out and Succeed

Author

Donald Maass

Make Your Novel Stand Out from the Crowd!

Noted literary agent and author Donald Maass has done it again! His previous book, "Writing the Breakout Novel," offered novelists of all skill levels and genres insider advice on how to make their books rise above the competition and succeed in a crowded...

Around the Writer's Block: Using Brain Science to Solve Writer's Resistance

Author

Rosanne Bane

Discover the tricks that your brain uses to keep you from writing—and how to beat them.

Do you:

Want to write, but find it impossible to get started? Keep your schedules so full that you don’t have any time to write? Wait until the last minute to write, even though you know you could...

Summer Frost

Author

Blake Crouch

A video game developer becomes obsessed with a willful character in her new project, in a mind-bending exploration of what it means to be human by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion.

Maxine was made to do one thing: die. Except the minor non-player character in the world Riley...