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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"--
3) You can read
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text explains how reading can take place anywhere, from the playground to the opera, and can even take readers on adventures.
Author
Publisher
Bushel & Peck Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When You Open a Book is a stunning ode to the world's grandest adventure of all: reading a book. Gorgeous artwork by Italian illustrator Sara Ugolotti depicts dragons, forests, pirates, merfolk, lollipop trees, lemonade tides, and more as a child journeys through page upon page of the written word.
Author
Language
English
Description
Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds that Amy's funeral has just ended. Luckily, the townspeople are happy to look after their bewildered tourist--even if they don't understand her peculiar need for books. Marooned in a farm town that's almost beyond repair, Sara starts a bookstore in honor of her friend's memory.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Zach would much rather watch TV than flip through a boring book. But thanks to his friend's stubborn efforts to show him the magic and excitement of reading, Jack finally goes to the library and finds a book he can't put down. Featuring simple, rhyming text by Gabby Dawnay and dynamic pen-and-ink drawings by illustrator Ian Morris, this story is an ode to the joys of reading and a love letter to books and libraries.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. This she reads to her ailing sister as the walls of the only...
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"This beautiful full-color treasury of stories about gift book-giving celebrates the enduring power of literature: stories of significant books people have received and what those books mean to them. The Books They Gave Me collects 200 poignant, funny, and provocative stories that together comprise a love letter to literature and the physical book.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Chapter Two is Missing is a hilarious picture book mystery starring a hopelessly lost narrator, an unqualified detective, and a very sneaky janitor, who are all surprised to discover that second chapter of the very book of which they are a part is--gasp--missing! Do not be alarmed, but the second chapter of this book appears to be missing! It was here a minute ago, but now it seems to have simply walked off. Not only that, but some of the punctuation...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"They were cowriting literary darlings until they hit a plot hole that turned their lives upside down. Three years ago, Katrina Freeling and Nathan Van Huysen were the brightest literary stars on the horizon, their cowritten books topping bestseller lists. But on the heels of their greatest success, they ended their partnership on bad terms, for reasons neither would divulge to the public. They haven't spoken since, and never planned to, except they...
16) No two persons
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and she creates a stunning debut novel. Her words, in turn,find their way to readers, from a teenager hiding her homelessness, to a free diver pushing himself beyond endurance, an artist furious at the world around her, a bookseller in search of love, a widower rent by grief. Each one is drawn into...
17) The book dragon
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The town of Lesser Scrump does not allow books because books attract the Book Dragon who comes down from Scrump Mountain and terrorizes the town.
18) Peeping Beauty
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As a family of chickens waits for the final egg to hatch, Mama reads favorite fairy tales.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Hugo may look shy and cuddly, but he has hidden powers. When he spies a reading disaster, Hugo zips over to the dress-up center and pesto, he's a superhero. In this adventure, a petrified puppy is in a pickle. Can Mighty Reader save the day?"--Book jacket.
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