Share Your Story 2022-23

This year our theme is food: elegant food, mouth-watering food, family food, fast food, food disasters, and all other things edible. Our Everett community drew inspiration from their own food memories and from library programs featuring food writers, chefs, and foodies to create a community book. 

Thanks to our 2023 writers and contributors!  

  • Chloe Lomas
  • Jordan Pennington
  • Liz Hawkins
  • Autumn Miller
  • Jennifer Fulk
  • Kyle Anne Durham
  • Lily Samuelson 

Read our 2023 Book!

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Inspire

Books for Inspiration

Graphic novel full of food ingenuity and being yourself while following your roots.

Book cover of Measuring Up by Lily Lamotte

Rhythmic writing about a teen juggling a child and her dreams of being a chef.

With the Fire on High

Fun graphic novel about a baking competition with recipes sprinkled throughout!

Battle Royal by Adams

Dating show meets a baking competition. Liza cannot believe that she is judging a competition where all the contestants are handpicked by her mom.

A Taste for Love by Yen

Between deciding to leave his parent's failing bakery or join a band in the big city, Ari falls in love.

Bloom

Hannah Malfa-Adler is a little jealous of her friend's beyond-awesome Bat Mitzvah. Can she learn more about her faith too?

Recipe for Disaster

Check out a book talk by Marley Dias for Measuring Up!

Hear Elizabeth Acevedo convey the essence of her book With the Fire on High

Write

Try a random prompt!

  • "What is that intoxicating aroma?" ... "Death." 
  • Look out your window. Incorporate what you see into your story. 
  • Something that shouldn't move is wiggling. 
  • A door that should be locked is wide open. 
  • A sweet smell...
  • Incorporate a quote from a movie or a line from a song.
  • Something that shouldn't burn is burned to a crisp. 
  • Break a rule. 
  • The smell of (your favorite spice). 
  • Write a sentence without the letter "e". 
  • Look in your pockets, purse, pack, or bag, and incorporate what you find there into your story. 

Teen Book List: Creative/General Writing

Rip the Page cover by Karen Benke
Writing Radar Cover by Jack Gantos
First You Write a Sentence by Joe Moran
Dear Ally
Pizza Pigs and Poetry
Writing Creative Nonfiction
 
 

Check out last year's digital book here!

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