by Andrew Clements (2005)
After twelve-year-old Natalie writes a wonderful novel, her friend Zoe helps her devise a scheme to get it accepted at the publishing house where Natalie's mother works as an editor.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Precocious eleven-year-old Libby had been educated by her bizarre and creative family until her absent mother insisted she go to school to become "socialized". She hates everything about school until she makes some highly original friends in a writing workshop.
Kit Pearson
Thirteen-year old Polly is following in her sister's footsteps to a boarding school in Victoria. Will her sister's new secret tear her family apart again?