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Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 1
Language
English
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"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened. After...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds that Amy's funeral has just ended. Luckily, the townspeople are happy to look after their bewildered tourist--even if they don't understand her peculiar need for books. Marooned in a farm town that's almost beyond repair, Sara starts a bookstore in honor of her friend's memory. All she wants...
Author
Series
Elephant and Piggie books volume 13
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Fountas & Pinnell
H
Physical Desc
57 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Gerald and Piggie discover the joy of being read. But what will happen when the book ends?
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A literate fox attempts to teach a trio of overzealous lemmings to read in order to save them from their habit of jumping off cliffs.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
It all started the day Amy Anne Ollinger tried to check out her favorite book in the whole world, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, from the school library. That's when Mrs. Jones, the librarian, told her the bad news: her favorite book was banned! All because a classmate's mom thought the book wasn't appropriate for kids to read. Amy Anne decides to fight back by starting a secret banned books library out of her locker. Soon,...
Author
Series
Mother Bruce volume 7
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three mice guide readers on quest for a fun reading experience, with a reluctant Bruce as the star.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A shy girl who feels most at home in the school library gains the courage to extend herself to others when she encounters a group of unique, diverse, inspiring women at the diner where her mother works"--
11) Small spaces
Author
Series
Small spaces quartet volume 1
Language
English
Description
"After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn't think--she just acts, stealing the book and running away. As she begins to read the slender volume, Ollie discovers a chilling story about a girl named Beth, the two brothers who both loved her, and a peculiar deal made with "the smiling man," a sinister specter...
Author
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
42 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
One by one, Sheila, Gerald and Geraldine are eaten by books, throwing them into strange lands where Sheila escapes the weight of the world entirely, Gerald braves the wonder of seeing it up close, and Geraldine turns as terrifically terrible as she possibly can.
Author
Language
English
Description
Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy's bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. On Miranda's twelfth birthday, Billy has a falling-out with her mother and disappears from Miranda's life. Sixteen years later she receives news that Billy has died and left her Prospero Books, which is teetering on bankruptcy--and one final scavenger hunt. Home in Los Angeles, Miranda finds clues that Billy...
14) The library fish
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When snow prevents Mr. Hughes from opening the library one day, book-loving Library Fish finds a way to entertain herself and her bookmobile friend.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
85 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Zoom Squirrel and his friends try to identify the Mystery Reader, they learn about books, how the are written, and how to read--while sharing a-corny jokes.
17) The reader
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Set in a world where reading is unheard-of, Sefia makes use of a mysterious object to track down who kidnapped her aunt Nin and what really happened the night her father was murdered"--
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Illustrations and rhyming text portray a loved one who promises to build a home library to hold treasures that grow and change along with their special child"--
19) Just a story
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young reader comes upon an alluring book and he starts to read, becoming blissfully unaware of increasingly odd and outlandish occurrences looming all around him"--
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"First published in 1970, Frog and Toad Are Friends was the first of the four beloved Frog and Toad books. This special edition contains all of the original stories--from the story about going swimming, to finding lost buttons! ... includes seven pages of rarely seen bonus material, including archival photographs, sketches, pages from the original book dummy, the manuscript of the first story "Spring" (written in Lobel's cursive on lined notebook...
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