Mentor Text

Picture Books to Teach Literary Devices Click here. Mentor Text Books for the teaching of writing in classrooms:

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
 

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