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Author
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Los Lobos, California, three women join a local indie bookstore's summer book club-devoted entirely to romance novels-and become life-long friends as they navigate the messiness of motherhood, second chances and becoming the person you've always wanted to be.
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
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous game maker Luigi Lemoncello), but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
xii, 257 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community--an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how could this be? How could Nathaniel Hawthorne have so perfectly...
Author
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
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
10) The bee tree
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
To teach his daughter the value of books, a father leads a growing crowd in search of the tree where the bees keep all their honey.
Author
Publisher
Scribe
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
166 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"As young children, we are taught to read, but soon go on to forget just how miraculous a process it is, this turning of scratches and dots into understanding, unease and inspiration. Perhaps we need to stop and remember, stop and learn again how to read better. Damon Young shows us how to do exactly this, walking alongside some of the greatest readers who light a path for us."--
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,...
16) A story for Bear
Author
Publisher
Silver Whistle/Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young bear who is fascinated by the mysterious marks he sees on paper finds a friend when a kind woman reads to him.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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"--
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 948 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A celebration of the reading life presents a cross-genre, historically representative compendium of one thousand works of literature, complemented by essays on each book's particular relevance.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In a magical world where books are repositories of individual lives, a reviled Bookbinder's apprentice crafts elegant memory volumes to help troubled customers before discovering that others in his profession use their skills for dark ends.