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Seven Star Stories.
Where should you look for excellent books to read. I have trouble finding books that I like to read. So, I created a criteria list. Then I started listing authors of books that I&';ve read who meet this criteria. I call these books Seven Star Stories.
✷1: The story is engaging, energizing, and exciting. It is not boring or formulaic.
✷2: It&';s well-written. It is not full of plot-holes, overly-redundant, full of typos, or awkward. It might contain plot-twists. The story line might not be a straight line.
✷3: It&';s easy to read. It might contain long words, non-English words. I encourage authors to provide reading-ease and grade-level.
✷4: It&';s on the light side, perhaps even hopeful. It is not too dark or dystopian. It might be lite-horror.
✷5: It&';s decent in terms of intimacy. I encourage authors to provide maturity-level. There&';s not TMI.
✷6: It&';s decent in terms of conflict. It is not too violent, brutal, or demeaning.
✷7: The story has a good ending, even if it&';s not the ending you&';d prefer. Not everyone dies. The story doesn&';t stop abruptly or dwindle away to nothing. The ending might state or imply that there&';s more to come.

These Seven Star Stories are often memorable or quotable. You&';ll want to refer them to your friends. Many are humorous.

Seven Star Story Award

Seven Star Story Authors





Seven Star Story Award

I offer the Seven Star Story award for books which meet this criteria. a pdf copy of your book. If you win the award, your name will get added below. I&';ll also provide you with the text of the award which you can place in your book and use to promote it. Want to make your book a Seven Star Story book, .


Seven Star Story Authors

Below is a list of Seven Star Story Authors and one of their Seven Star Story Books.
Disclaimer #1: An author may write some books which are seven star stories and others which aren&';t.
Disclaimer #2: These criteria can be subjective. That means you may disagree with me about whether a story is a seven star story or not. But, if you&';re looking for excellent books, this is a good place to start.
Dale Stubbart: The Wizard Without a Wand
Hannah Jansson: The Actress
James Nugent: How To Get Your Kid To Move Out
Sandy Sinclair: Inside the Rainbow
Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstockings
Alexander Clifford: The Foreign Desk
Rebecca Carlson: Barley and Rye
Leslie Margolis: Maggie Brooklyn
T Kingfisher: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
Alexander McCall Smith: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Cornelia Funke: Igraine the Brave
Elizabeth Peters: Crocodile on the Sandbank
Ellis Peters: Brother Cadfael
Anna Dewdney: Llama Llama Red Pajama
Chris Baron: The Magical Imperfect
Bruce Degen: Jamberry
Charlie Mackesy: The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and the Horse
Larry Gonick: Kokopelli & Company in The Attack of the Smart Pies
Madelleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time
Shelley Pearsall: The Seventh Most Important Thing
Donna Andrews: Murder with Peacocks
Lensey Namioka: Yang the Youngest and his Terrible Ear
Cressida Cowell: The Wizards of Once
Liesel Moak Skorpen: We Were Tired of Living in a House
E.L. Konigsburg: From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler
Sven Nordquist: Pancakes for Findus
Eva Ibbotson: Journey to the River Sea
Ethel Cook Elliot: The Wind Boy
Suzanna Willams: Ninety-five percent Human
Elizabeth Bunce: Premeditated Myrtle
Gary D Schmidt: What Came from the Stars
Michiko Aoyama: What you are looking for is in the library
Barthe DeClements: Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade
Adam Gidwitz: The Unicorn Rescue Society: The Creature of the Pines
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