A review by cjeziorski
Been There, Done That: Writing Stories from Real Life, by Jane Yolen, Caroline Starr Rose, Tracy Edward Wymer, Dee Garretson, Églantine Ceulemans, Chris Rylander, Mike Winchell, Claire Legrand, Lisa Yee, Karen Cushman, Julia Alvarez, Heidi Y. Stemple, Alan Lawrence Sitomer, Gary D. Schmidt, Matthew J. Kirby, Adam Rex, Linda Sue Park, Rita Williams-Garcia, Grace Lin, Kate Messner, Nathan Hale, Margarita Engle
4.0
This would be a good mentor text to use with upper elementary and middle school students to show how authors use events from their lives to inspire their writing.