Best teen & young adult language arts books according to redditors

You've gotten some good suggestions for fiction and biographies, but I'd actually recommend getting her a book aimed at kids about how to write. Try Spilling Ink by Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter, or one of Gail Carson Levine's books: Writing Magic or Writer to Writer.

Kids' writing books are great because they're empowering - they'll have specific writing advice, encouraging words, and activities to help kick-start her writing. I remember receiving a similar writing guide when I was that age, and it made me feel like a real professional.

(Also, I've read the Stephen King and Ursula Le Guin writing guides that other users suggested, and I wouldn't recommend those for a child at all - the advice is definitely more advanced, including complex grammar concepts, and Stephen King is brutally honest about his view that most writers will never make it. Much too discouraging for a kid.)

This will give you an edge around here.

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100 Words Every Middle Schooler Should Know https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0547333226/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_PGjIDbTAXSBBC

There are very cool writing journals out there that provide prompts and inspire personal writing/creativity/ reflection. Along with a cool set of pens? And an awesome pen/pencil case? My 13 year old daughter loves stuff like this.

This 3-year journal, for example, tracks your answers to questions over three different years to see how they change:

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0804186642/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_UQL.BbVB5PMM9

Something like this maybe?

I've been using the "Vocabulary from Latin and Greek Roots" series for a few years now. I think having that underlying understanding of roots, suffixes, and prefixes is invaluable, and these workbooks do that well. Plus, the quantity and quality of exercises seems to be sufficient to give (my) students sufficient mastery to pass a quiz on a new list of words every 2 weeks or so.

ex = out (of)

sanguin = blood

Had Word Within the Word force-fed to me from grades 7 through 12.

It's actually proven to be quite handy. We were taught suffixes, prefixes, and words that were (at the time) strange.

I love that idea and I am stealing it! Will edit the post and change the flair. I have that book. And I live by it. I considered it as part of the prize, if the recipient is an older teen. I was debating this one should the SK one be age inappropriate!

As a side note, when we just moved cross country, I had several HUNDRED print books in my home library. The SK On Writing was the only one that made the trip.

I was a fifth grade student, and we were reading out of these textbooks: https://www.amazon.com/Wordly-Wise-3000-Book-Development/dp/0838876056/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1541037909&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=wordly+wise

I distinctly remember my teacher spelling it out for us. With an "n".

Additional resources and suggestions to think about:

1. Talk to one of your English teachers about starting a journalism club. Even an English teacher not trained at all in the “rules” of journalistic writing can help you improve your writing. Also it world give your writing focus, an audience, and a place to warehouse it(as an online publication is easiest and cheapest). Also figuring out how to start a school newspaper is great training for understanding how news is made.
   
2. Check out some online resources like these open courses: MOOCs from Michigan State University, Ohio State University, The University of Texas at Austin or News University from Poynter, lots of free educational resources here.
   
3. Read a book (or 40). I’m an English teacher, but when I took over the journalism program at my school I read as many books on journalism that I could find. If your library doesn’t have much, ask them about inter-library loan. You can borrow books from other libraries and get them sent to your library. If you can, get your hands on a copy of the AP Stylebook. Even an older(an cheaper) version would get you the basics of the primary journalistic style in the US. A copy of Katina Paron’s A NewsHound's Guide to Student Journalism is a more student-friendly and less technical introduction tithe basics of news gathering. Highly recommended!
   
4. Read the news. Local, regional, national. Find really good sources to emulate. No paper is perfect, but learn from their shortcomings. Read widely. See how multiple organizations cover the same event. Count the number of sources(both quoted and anonymous).
   
5. Learn the elements of newsworthiness (list ) inside and out. Work on developing you nose for news. What is useful, interesting and necessary for your readers to know?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0880922109?pc_redir=1408673227&robot_redir=1

I would recommend this book. It's cheap too!

Who are you? I asked her to show vegena, why are you acting like one brother? I think you need help; buy this, this and thisbrother.

The OP also never stated they were going to Amoeba. Seriously, the post was only three sentences, read it again.

Sorry if I could not find this resource on vinyl: https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Comprehension-Grade-Skill-Builders/dp/1936023342/

Previous post:

>They don't really have that great if a midfield and apart from pjanic and maybe Can none of them really fit Sarris playing style

Then in my reply:

>Khedira I doubt will get minutes. Matuidi def doesn't fit sarris system. Dybala doesn't play midfield. I forgot about Ramsey tho

So from my fucking post, pjanic, MAYBE Can and Ramsey are great midfielders that also fit Sarris style. At that moment they didnt sign Rabiot. The fucking Graphic is literally Ramsey, Rabiot and Pjanic. Two fucking mids i already mentioned were quality.

Then in my post that you replied to:

>Having quantity in midfielders don't mean they have quality. The current lineup of midfielders are quality. Apart from 1 other in the bench they aren't worth anything compared to other top 5 clubs

Their current lineup, which i ALREADY said was good and fit sarris style, was never up for debate.

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Here is a link on Amazon for Reading comprehension. Its for 6th graders which i think is adequate for your level. Buy it, make use of it. Study the absolute shit out of it. https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Comprehension-Grade-Skill-Builders/dp/1936023342/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3V7MV5BD2QPPJ&keywords=reading+comprehension+grade+6&qid=1564096714&s=gateway&sprefix=reading+compr%2Caps%2C210&sr=8-3

Don't waste your time with that crap, unless that is effective for you. For me, whenever I read I gloss over words I don't know or can't pronounce. If you do this at all then reading won't increase your vocabulary.



For me, what worked was creating a mental picture of the definition based on the pronunciation of the word. The more personalized and outrageous the better. That last part on being personalized and crazy is key.


For example, truculent means "eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant." To me it sounds like "truck-you-lent" so I picture a guy driving a semi truck which costs like 400K who owns the truck, but works for a shipping company. He lends his truck out, but the guy doesn't give it back and so the big burly truck driver is pissed and eager to fight and argue.


I practice recalling the key phrase "truck-you-lent" and associated picture incorporating the definition. After three times I just know the definition without really being able to articulate it well. Its just in there, but it takes struggling and recalling it ~3 times over a 2 week period.


I have a database of GRE words with descriptions of pictures that I have been working on in hopes of writing a book based on the above idea someday. PM if you want me to send it to you.


Also, check out these books for ideas and even words. They tend to be simple SAT words but you need to know them as well for the GRE.

GRE Vocab Capacity: Over 900 Powerful Memory Tricks and Mnemonics to Widen your Lexicon

Vocabulary Cartoons II, SAT Word Power

Vocabulary Cartoons: Sat Word Power

Vocabulary Cartoons II: SAT Word Power

Picture These SAT Words!

Picture These SAT Words in a Flash

Vocabulary Cartoons: Word Power Made Easy

Vocabulary Cartoons: SAT Word Power

How to Build a Better Vocabulary

Verbal Advantage: 10 Steps to a Powerful Vocabulary

Hi! Thanks for holding this contest!

http://www.amazon.com/Vocabulary-Workshop-Level-Jerome-Shostak/dp/0821571125/ref=wl_it_dp_v_nS_nC/192-2129834-0713553?ie=UTF8&colid=JVBSWDSMLOPX&coliid=I3Q8OPE09L0IAU This was on my summer reading list for my AP English class. I guess it's for improving my vocabulary. Also Chuck Finley!

Edit: Oops! I don't think this is in the price range. If I win you could buy it used.

Here's the Amazon page. The ISBN is underneath the picture.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Essential-Spelling-English-Skills-Practice/dp/0174244932, Or http://reanimationlibrary.org/catalog/items/101768 ?

This can help: https://www.amazon.com/Prentice-Hall-Grammar-Composition-Forlini/dp/0137118708

http://www.amazon.com/Goodmans-Five-Star-Spelling-Workbook-Comprehension/dp/0078273560

Jesus. I take it back - all the schooling in the world won't help you: even by grade school standards, that "insult" is pathetic.

I tend to stop conversing with people once they begin to bore me, but don't let that discourage you from practicing your "comebacks"! Also, maybe look into ordering this book - they have them for all different levels if that one is too advanced.