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Series
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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Description
"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"--
2) The borrower
Author
Language
English
Description
In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road.
Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly...
Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly...
3) Don't blink!
Author
Lexile measure
AD 520L
Language
English
Description
"A page turns every time you blink, bringing you closer to the end of the book--and bedtime" -- Provided by publisher.
Win the staring contest and you don't have to go to bed! An interactive bedtime story that gives young readers a chance to avoid bedtime, provided they don't blink, but for every blink, a page turns, bringing the end of the story and sleep closer.
Author
Language
English
Description
"What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it. A restless retail assistant looks to gain new skills, a mother tries to overcome demotion at work after maternity leave, a conscientious accountant yearns to open an antique store, a recently retired salaryman searches for newfound...
Author
Language
English
Description
All it takes is the right book to turn a Book Hater into a Book Lover. That was Elliott's belief and the reason why he started The Book Haters' Book Club, a newsletter of reading recommendations for the self-proclaimed "nonreader." As the beloved co-owner of Over the Rainbow Bookstore, Elliott's passion and gift was recommending books to customers. Now, after his sudden death, his grief-ridden business partner, Irma, has agreed to sell Over the Rainbow...
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Language
English
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"The life of a book isn't easy, especially when people judge you by your cover (not every book can be adorned with sparkly unicorns!). And this narrator should know--it's the book itself, and it has a lot of opinions. It gets irritated when readers bend its pages back, and it finds authors quite annoying. But it does have a story to tell. Through witty direct address and charming illustrations, readers meet a book that has never been read, with a...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Attention, reader: You're going to LOVE this book! No, really, you are. It's got everything you could ever want: comedy, drama, action, heart. Plus--are you ready? It's got homework! Ahh yeah! And a trip to the best place ever, the dentist! Ahhhh yeahhh! Additionally--brace yourself--it's got raisins! Nature's candy. AHH YEAHHH!" --
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nell Stillman's road is not easy. When her boorish husband dies soon after they move to the small town of Harvester, Minnesota, Nell is alone, penniless yet responsible for her beloved baby boy, Hillyard. Not an easy fate in small-town America at the beginning of the twentieth century. In the face of nearly insurmountable odds, Nell finds strength in lasting friendships and in the rich inner life awakened by the novels she loves. She falls in love...
Author
Series
Library trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
The boy has lived his whole life trapped within a book-choked chamber older than empires and larger than cities. The girl has spent hers in a tiny settlement out on the Dust, where nightmares stalk and no one goes. The world has never even noticed them. That's about to change. Their stories spiral around each other, across worlds and time. This is a tale of truth and lies and hearts, and the blurring of one into another. A journey on which knowledge...
11) The book thief
Author
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
AD 460L
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"When her dog disappears into the gutter of the book, Bella calls for help. But when the helpers disappear too, Bella realizes it will take more than a tug on the leash to put things right"--
14) I hate to read!
Author
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Victor Dickens hates to read--or so he tells his parents and teacher. But when he's alone one night, Victor discovers that words on a page can take him on unexpected adventures"--Provided by publisher.
15) You can read
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Lexile measure
AD 380L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this fun and funny celebration of literacy, kids of all ages will discover that the act of reading is a daring adventure that can take you anywhere! You can read at the playground, under the sea, at the opera and even in outer space! It turns out you can read everywhere! And when you do, you open yourself to a universe of adventure. Presented in light-hearted, rib-tickling verse that's perfect for reading aloud, You Can Read sings it loud and proud:...
19) A tale of magic
Author
Series
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Brystal Evergreen risks everything by opposing her kingdom's repression of women, but Madame Weatherberry, seeing her potential, invites her to a school where she hopes to change the world's perception of magic.
When Brystal Evergreen stumbles across a secret section of the library, she discovers a book that introduces her to a world beyond her imagination and learns the impossible: She is a fairy capable of magic! But in the oppressive...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A Indian American boy endures a family move from Hawaii to frigid Minnesota and, with the help of three life-changing books he reads in school, he learns to like reading, and ultimately, himself"--
Ahmed Aziz is having an epic yearepically bad. After his dad gets sick, the family moves from Hawaii to Minnesota for his dads treatment. Even though his dad grew up there, Ahmed cant imagine a worse place to live. Hes one of the only brown kids in his...