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Born to Write: The Remarkable Lives of Six Famous Authors

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By Charis Cotter
Publisher Annick Press, Limited
Born to Write: The Remarkable Lives of Six Famous Authors
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What were famous authors like as kids? Our childhood experiences shape us into the adults we become. Born to Write tells the stories of how six extraordinary children transformed early struggles into spellbinding bedtime reading for kids around the world. To ease the pain of being ostracized by her classmates, Madeleine LEngle escaped to an invented world every night in her bedroom. Lucy Maud Montgomery lost her mother as a baby, and her father appeared only sporadically throughout her life. And Philip Pullman, a seasoned traveler by age 10, used his long journeys by ship as inspiration for his remarkable novels. In Born to Write, Charis Cotter chronicles the early lives of these and other muchloved childrens writers, including Christopher Paul Curtis, C.S. Lewis and E.B.White, revealing how each authors achievements, losses, triumphs and tragedies helped shape our most beloved books. Interspersed throughout are sidebars highlighting other wellknown childrens authors, such as Hans Christian Andersen and Louisa May Alcott, whose works served as inspiration.

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31210 words31,210 words
136 pages136 pages
Lexile 1030LLexile 1030L
Grade 6 to 9Grade 6 to 9
Age 11-14Age 11-14
Published 2009Published 2009

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