writing workshop
davidastoner@gmail.com
10.26.2008
Mentor Texts
Voice Creating a Character Unforgettable Language

The Pain and the Great One by Judy Blume
The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
That Was Then, This is Now by S. E. Hinton
A Taste of Blackberries by Doris B. Smith
A Medieval Feast by Aliki
Nettie’s Trip South by Ann Turner

The Two of Them by Aliki
Through Grandpa’s Eyes by Patricia MacLachlan
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Autumn Street by Lois Lowry
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Patterson
Ironweed by William Kennedy

Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
Borning Room by Paul Fleischman
The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry
Taking the Ferry Home by Pam Conrad
A Death in the Family by James Agee
Beginnings Endings Tension

Louis the Fish by Arthur Yorinks
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
Fireflies! by Julie Brinckloe
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
Shrek! by William Steig

Just Like Daddy by Frank Asch
The Wednesday Surprise by Eve Bunting
Flossie and the Fox by Patricia McKissack
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Faithful Elephants by Yukio Tsuchiya
The One Eyed Cat by Paula Fox
Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Woodsong by Gary Paulsen
Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
A Sense of Place Words and Word Play Significant Subject

Very Last First Time by Jan Andrews
Where the Forest Meets the Sea by Jeannie Baker
The Tunnel by Anthony Browne
The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry
Box Turtle at Long Pond
No Star Nights by Anna Egan Smucker

Mrs. Dictionary by Josefa H. Byrne
Words by Paul Dickson
Words: Funs and Games by Whitney
Wordstruck by Robert McNeil
Morris Dictionary of Words and Phrase Origins by William and Mary Morris
Books by Richard Lederer