Do we really teach fake writing in schools and test the results with multiple choice tests? I’m rolling my eyes now because I suspect that this is the case in the dying world of No Child Left Behind. We are presented here with practice tests for kids. They are given a sample of student work and then they answer multiple choice tests about that writing. So, it’s the perfect book to teach to the test if that is the kind of nonsense the test has. So what does this have to do with teacher librarians? Krashen has taught us that kids learn to write by reading. Why? Because they can use great writing as a springboard for their own work If I were a teacher librarian collaborating with language arts teachers, I would recommend the substitution of great writing passages for the students to analyze. There are enough multiple choice tests here to see a pattern or better yet, take past sample tests from your own state and use those as models to construct and talk with kids. It’s great to stimulate discussion about good writing and practice writing using an author’s technique. In social networking, kids write more than ever before. They may write in code, but they can learn, with a bit of coaching, to make their writing more fun and interesting by modeling the great writers. Take them into the world of Web 2.0 where they can write and write and write and share and share and get better and become another Christopher Paolini. I hope fake writing disappears, and if you buy this book, get its suggestions, then recycle it quickly.