For Middle School, High School and Beyond
"The Elements of Style"(fourth edition) by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White
"Writing Magic" by Gail Carson Levine
"Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life" by Anne Lamott
"The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile" by Noah Lukeman
"Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind" by Natalie Goldberg
"How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling" by James N. Frey
"On Writing Well" by William Zinsser
"Essential Literary Terms" by Sharon Hamilton
"Because Writing Matters" by Carl Nagin & The National Writing Project (Jossey-Bass)
"Active Voice: A program of Writing Across the Curriculum" by James Moffett (Heinemann)
"The Writer’s Notebook: Unlocking the Writer Within You" by Ralph Fletcher
"What’s Your Story? A Young Person’s Guide to Writing Fiction" by Marion Dane Bauer
"On Writing" by Stephen King
"The Artist’s Way" by Julia Cameron
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For Younger Writers:
"Show; Don't Tell! Secrets of Writing" by Josephine Nobisso
"Nothing Ever Happens On 90th Street" by Roni Schotter
"Punctuation Takes a Vacation" by Robin Pulver
"The Important Book" by Margaret Wise Brown
"What Do Authors Do?" by Eileen Christelow
"If You Were a Writer" by Joan Lowery Nixon
"Look at My Book: How Kids Can Write and Illustrate Terrific Books" by Loren Leedy
"You Have to Write" by Janet Wong
"It Came From Beneath the Bed!" by James Howe