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1) A library
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Language
English
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Description
In what other place can a child "sail their dreams" and "surf the rainbow" without ever leaving the room? This ode to libraries is a celebration for everyone who loves stories, from seasoned readers to those just learning to love words, and it will have kids and parents alike imagining where their library can take them. This inspiring read-aloud includes stunning illustrations and a note from Nikki Giovanni about the importance of libraries in her...
2) Library lion
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
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Description
A lion starts visiting the local library but runs into trouble as he tries to both obey the rules and help his librarian friend.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Publication Date
2021.
Physical Desc
68 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ivy was Anne the librarian's doll when she was a young girl. But now she has moved to Anne's library to be its newest Book Buddy--a toy that can be checked out just like a book. Ivy isn't sure she wants to be borrowed, though. She'd rather go back to just being Anne's favorite toy. Fern, a child who visits the library with her stepfamily, also wishes things could go back to the way they were, when Fern had her dad all to herself. When Fern takes...
Author
Publisher
Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing
Publication Date
2016.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Gia Kearns would rather fight with boys than kiss them. That is, until Arik, a leather clad hottie in the Boston Athenaeum, suddenly disappears. While examining the book of world libraries he abandoned, Gia unwittingly speaks the key that sucks her and her friends into a photograph and transports them into a Paris library, where Arik and his Sentinels-magical knights charged with protecting humans from the creatures traveling across the gateway books-rescue...
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Language
English
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Description
"Gwen MacKinnon's parents are dreadful. Truly, deeply, almost impressively dreadful. So Gwen's not upset at all when she's foisted onto her never-before-seen Uncle Matthew for two weeks. Especially when it turns out he has a very opinionated dog named Pumpkin. Things take a turn for the weird when Gwen makes a discovery in the local library. A discovery that involves tiny creatures with wings. And no, they're not birds. They're called Lahdukan. But...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
Finding a mysterious letter from her late Grandpa, Dally is led straight to a library of secrets where each book is a portal to a precise moment in time, and she must find the courage to write her own life story as she "checks out" adventure after adventure.
11) The unbound: #2
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Publication Date
2014
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Starting her junior year at Hyde School, Mackenzie Bishop, a Keeper tasked with stopping violent Histories from escaping the Archive, becomes the prime suspect when several people vanish without a trace.
Author
Publisher
Breathing Books
Publication Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
What if books want to be read as much as we want to read them? This is certainly true of our young hero in The Book No One Ever Read. Morry, a young book, is tired of standing still on a shelf amid dignified first editions, and yearns for the excitement of sharing his story with a child.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hana wants to know everything about the world around her. When she starts asking questions, her mother gives her a book. She learns so much, but now she has even more questions! She also has a big mission: she will read all the books-every single one! She reads every book in her house. . . and then her friends' houses . . . and then the whole block. Nonfiction, fiction, romance, mysteries, and science fiction. But when her mother takes her to the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
When a fire break out at the Jewish Theological Seminary library, helping hands from across the community rally together to save the books and preserve the stories within the pages. Includes factual backmatter on the Jewish Theological Seminary fire of 1966.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Editions, an imprint of Capstone
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Bob is a favorite library book at Wisdom Hill Elementary School, but his current borrower, Sebastian, has completely forgotten him, and Bob finds himself lost and alone on a kitchen shelf.
20) Please, Louise
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publication Date
c2014
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a gray, rainy day, everything seems particularly frightening and bad to Louise until she enters a library and finds books that help her to know and imagine the beauty and wonder that have been there all along.