While conducting a content analysis of award-winning, middle school fiction, I indentified a number of episodes and characters that might be used as models for students' writing. Research suggests that teachers can motivate students (Bruning & Horn, 2000; Codling, Gambrell, Kennedy, Palmer, & Graham, 1996) to respond to character-writers (Van Horn, 2001), make connections between their writing and reading (Elbow, 2004; Gilrane, 2009), utilize the writing process (Graves, 2003) to create a finished product (Alvermann, Phelps, & Gillis, 2010; Dyson & Freedman, 2003), and learn to overcome their own writing problems as they identify with characters who are overcoming problems common to their age and maturity levels (Farris, Werderich, Nelson, & Fuhler, 2009; Griffith, 2008). This article provides a list of books with detailed descriptions of character-writers and writing episodes. Middle school teachers seeking to introduce students to writers are encouraged to use these characters and texts as models (Dorfman & Capelli, 2007; Hansen, 2009, Ray, 1999), leading students to metaknowledge regarding the writing process.