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181) Blue rider
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In a book without words, a child finds a book on a crowded city sidewalk and is transported beyond the repetitive sameness of an urban skyscape into an untamed natural world.
182) A story for Bear
Author
Publisher
Silver Whistle/Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the picturesque alleys of the city. These people are almost like friends to him, and he is their most important connection to the world. When Kollhoff unexpectedly loses his job, it takes the power of books and a nine-year-old girl to make them all find the courage to rebuild their bonds with each other.
Author
Series
Tuesday McGillycuddy volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Real and imaginary worlds are colliding so Tuesday and Baxterr, at the request of the Librarian, venture to find the Gardener--the one person who can stop this catastrophe--but will they be able to save the land of story?
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Kenny Rabbit's jealousy leads to trouble after Dante the Manticore escapes from an evil witch's magical book and reunites with his old friend, Grahame the Dragon.
186) Kenny & the dragon
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kenny Rabbit tries to save his friend, the dragon, after he is labeled a community nuisance by the simple people of Roundbrook village, who arrange for the creature to be fought by St. George.
187) Hexed
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Indigo Blackwood is not a normal teenager. Her destiny as a witch involves many secrets. She will about to uncover a supernatural future.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Stanley's thrilled for bookmobile day--until the old man at the window refuses to lend him the story he wants, all because it features a girl. 'Girl books' are only for girls, the book man insists, just like cat books are only for cats and robot books are only for robots. But when a dinosaur arrives at the bookmobile and successfully demands a book about ponies, Stanley musters the courage to ask for the tale he really wants--about a girl adventurer...
189) Shhh! I'm reading!
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Shhh! Do not disturb! Bella is busy reading. Please come back when she has finished this UTTERLY AMAZING and TOTALLY INCREDIBLE book! A fantastically funny tale, celebrating imagination and the joy of reading.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Yeongju is burned out. She did everything she was supposed to: go to school, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. In a leap of faith, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop. In a quaint neighborhood in Seoul, surrounded by books, Yeongju and her customers take refuge. From the lonely barista to the unhappily married coffee roaster-and the writer who sees...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
""There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies--I mean books--that were written for one person only...A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that's how I sell books." Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes...
192) A child of books
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
A little girl sails her raft across a sea of words, arriving at the house of a small boy and calling him away on an adventure. Through forests of fairy tales and across mountains of make-believe, the two travel together on a fantastical journey that unlocks the boy’s imagination. Now a lifetime of magic and adventure lies ahead of him . . . but who will be next?
194) Captain Rosalie
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While her father is at war, five-year-old Rosalie places herself in charge of a secret mission to uncover the truth behind her father's letters from the front lines.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
In BogotColumbia, young Josagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by Jos頁lberto Guti鲲ez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes note about Guti鲲ez's life and Bogot.
196) Cuento de noche
Author
Publisher
Cuento de Luz SL
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Español
Description
Ilustraciones fantásticas le otorgan vida a los sueños de un niño en este hermoso e imaginativo cuento para la hora de dormir. Cada noche cuando el niño se acuesta en su cama, la noche se sienta a su lado y le lee un cuento. -- Whimsical illustrations bring a child's dreams to life in this beautiful and imaginative bedtime story.
Every evening when he goes to bed, the night sits at the child's bedside and reads him a story. Some stories are sweet,...
197) We are inevitable
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After losing his brother, mom, and most of his friends, Aaron Stein is left with his shambolic father alone in their moldering secondhand bookstore, but just when he considers selling the store he meets new people and takes on new challenges, helping him come to terms with what he has lost and who he wants to be.
Aaron Stein's friends have gone to college and moved on with their lives, while he has been left behind in the Cascade Mountains of Washington...
Author
Publisher
Flamingo Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A scarecrow stood in the garden. Tall, proud, and smiling. Every day a girl brought her favorite books to the garden and she read to him. He heard tales of courage and of hope. And when she said, "The End," the scarecrow always felt a little bit taller and braver. Year after year, she came and she read to him. Until one spring, two different hands picked him up from the garden shed and placed him in the garden. He waited, but she didn't come to read...
199) The oldest trick
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Dace finds a strange book in an antique dresser, and upon opening it he releases The Oldest Trick, an ancient evil which traps the boy in a fake nightmarish world--and only The Librarian can show him how to break the spell.
Author
Publisher
Dragonfly Books
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st Dragonfly Books ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Tomás and the Library Lady recalls how a young Rivera, after a long and arduous day in the fields, would listen intently to the stories his grandfather told. Soon, he knew all the stories by heart. So, his grandfather took him to the library and introduced him to the librarian and a whole new world, limited only by his imagination. Colón's warm, expressive paintings portray both the harsh realities of young Rivera's life and the special relationships...
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