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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
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...
6) 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
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...
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,...
15) My book by me
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A child describes the pleasures and freedom of writing one's own book and then reading it as well.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
57 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Piggie discovers that she and Gerald are in a book and she can make the reader say a funny word out loud, Gerald is tickled pink, but they being to wonder what will happen when the story is over.
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.
19) Dog loves books
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dog loves books so much that he decides to open a book store.