Sixteen-year-old Ivy is pregnant and alone. Cast out by her family, she runs away and finds safety in the arms of Joel Davis. He offers a simpler life than the one she had in Boston, a quiet, rural life of rules, peace and community. Little does she realise, Joel is the charismatic leader of a cult known as the Community, and all is not quite as it seems. Daughter Mia has only known the claustrophobic life of the Community. While out serving the Community...

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...

Widowed teacher Nell Stillman raises her son in the small town of Harvester, Minnesota, finding solace and escape in books.

Every Tuesday Lola and her mother visit their local library to return and check out books, attend story readings, and share a special treat.

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. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened. After...

Reading together is a constant through the years in the relationship between this loving father and daughter.

Aunt Chip saves the town of Triple Creek, where everyone has forgotten how to read because of the invasion of television.

Each day, an ordinary man becomes a great adventurer when he goes to the library and reads about the Wild West, pirates, or a visit to the pyramids.

A boy's search for the perfect pet leads him to the bookstore, where he finds a bright red book that becomes his best friend.

The woodland animals of Burrow Down are ready for a bedtime story, but where are the books?