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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Appears on list
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
Series
The book woman of Troublesome Creek volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble...
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
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"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bored with another normal, inky evening, bats discover an open library window and fly in to enjoy the photocopier, water fountain, and especially the books and stories found there.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
One night, Claire and her toy unicorn, Capricorn, journey to a magical land filled with characters from fairy tales to find out what makes someone live "happy ever after."
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
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,...
13) Poppleton
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
LEVEL 3. Poppleton the pig makes a friend, reads a library book about adventure, and helps a sick friend get better.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
n.p.
Language
English
Description
Hamlet enjoys reading books and writing poetry, not playing in the mud and fighting over supper like the other pigs, but he finally finds someone who appreciates him just as he is.
15) Scarecrow Pete
Author
Publisher
Ideals Children's Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[33] p.
Language
English
Description
A friendly scarecrow with a suitcase encourages a young child to read, and together they explore such classics as "Moby Dick" and "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Told in rhyming verse.
18) Library Lil
Author
Publisher
Dial
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A formidable librarian makes readers not only out of the once resistant residents of her small town, but out of a tough-talking, television-watching motorcycle gang as well.