Looking for writing inspiration? Check out these faculty favorites!

Lesley Arnold, K-8 faculty:
Show, Don’t tell! Secrets of Writing
by Josephine Nobisso (for students in grades 3-6)

Writing Magic; Creating Stories That Fly
by Gail Carson Levine (grade 5 and up)

Megan Buchanan Cherry, High School Humanitiesfaculty:
What It Is by Lynda Barry
(great for high school students and adults)

Leslie Daniels-Vanzo, K-8 faculty:
The Art of Teaching Writing
by Lucy McCormick Calkins

In the Middle—New Understanding About Writing,
Reading & Learning by Nancie Atwell

How’s It Going?: A Practical Guide to Conferring with Student Writers by Carl Anderson

Notebook Know-How: Strategies for the Writer’s Notebook by Aimee Buckner and Ralph Fletcher

Writing for 100 Days by Gabriel Arquilevich

Apple Gifford, K-8 Program Director and faculty:
anything by Nancie Atwell

Strunk and White’s Element of Style

The Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed and its punctuation partner The Well- Tempered Sentence by Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
by Natalie Goldberg

DeeDee Hughes, Managing Editor, Living Education:
Prentice Hall’s Reference Guide to Grammar and
Usage by Muriel Harris

Woe is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better
English in Plain English by Patricia T. O’Conner

Several dictionaries—one is NEVER enough!

Michelle Simpson-Siegel, Executive Director:
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott

On Writing by Stephen King

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

Book of Lists

John “Penner” Solie, High School faculty:
The Art of Fiction by John Gardner

Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman

The Transitive Vampire by Karen Elizabeth Gordon