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Write this down

Claudia Mills

2016248 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2016
first published
  • 2016Farrar, Straus & Giroux · ENGISBN 9780374301668
  • 2016Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 248 pages · ENGISBN 9780374301644
  • 2018Square Fish · ENGISBN 9781536434576
  • 2018Square Fish · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9781250143914

Twelve-year-old Autumn loves to write. She finds inspiration all around her, especially in Cameron, the dreamy boy in her journalism class who she has a major crush on. Then her older brother, Hunter, who used to watch out for her but has grown distant since he started high school, reads one of her poems about Cameron to Cameron's older brother. They make fun of it and she is devastated. Determined to show her brother how talented she really is, Autumn decides that she is going to become a published author - now! She writes an essay about her changing relationship with her brother, enters it in a contest, and wins, and her dream of publication is within reach. But if her essay is published, everyone will know her family's secrets. Is being published worth hurting those you love?

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Character focusSmall ensemble

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Written forMiddle grade

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ThemesFamily
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