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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Attention, reader: You're going to LOVE this book! No, really, you are. It's got everything you could ever want: comedy, drama, action, heart. Plus -- are you ready? It's got homework! Ahh yeah! And a trip to the best place ever, the dentist! Ahhhh yeahhh! Additionally -- brace yourself -- it's got raisins! Nature's candy. AHH YEAHHH! This book is so great, you won't be able to stop reading it. I DARE you not to have fun" --
3) Inkspell
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Dustfinger finds a crooked storyteller who can read him back to Inkscape, he leaves his apprentice Farid behind. Farid seeks out Meggie and the two follow him back into the enchanted book. Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of Inkheart, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to return to the tale has become desperate. When he finds a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lake Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Andy Lee and Heath McKenzie are back with their highly anticipated ninth book, (Pretty Please) Do Not Open this Book. Whether 'pretty please' is a polite request or a desperate plea is for you to decide! This time, Wizz is reunited with his delightful friend Nessie, in some more highly relatable and hilarious situations. Anyone who occasionally (or not so occasionally) is nervous or unsure of themselves will delight in Wizz's escapades. Trying new...
6) I am Book
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Meet 'Book' a plain old book with a yellow cover. Before the library closed, Book was the most popular pick at Rufus Elementary. Everyone wanted to check Book out. Now it's time to switch shelves. Book is convinced that the kids at this new school will feel the same. (Spoiler alert: Book is wrong. Very, very wrong.) After many failed attempts to change its pages to please its critics, Book soon realizes you can't please everyone and maybe being different...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At the beginning of summer vacation Joe, Sam, and Fred find themselves trapped inside their summer reading list, involved in a battle between good and evil characters from well-known children's books.
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When Milo, Tilly, Oskar, and Alessia venture into Arthurian legend to find the first bookwanderer -- the wizard Merlin -- they discover that the magic of bookwandering is not at all what they thought. Together, they must journey into Greek and Roman mythology to bargain with the trickster Loki and find a way to untangle the Alchemist's grip on the world's imagination. And to save Pages & Co. and protect the very foundations of bookwandering, the...
Author
Series
Bat Cat and Rat volume 1
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In three-and-a-half stories, friends and roommates Bat, Cat and Rat share, joke, and read together.
Author
Language
English
Description
A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize Semifinalist
We read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass a rainy afternoon. No matter the reason, books have the power to keep us safe, to challenge us, and perhaps most importantly, to make us more...
We read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass a rainy afternoon. No matter the reason, books have the power to keep us safe, to challenge us, and perhaps most importantly, to make us more...
Author
Series
Library lover's mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Briar Creek Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular library conference in Chicago to hear book restoration specialist Brooklyn Wainwright give a keynote address. After the lecture, Lindsey looks under her seat and finds a tote bag containing a first edition of Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooklyn determines the novel is one of a kind and quite valuable, so Lindsey and...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. It's also where two girls are going to shake things up. This is the last summer of thirteen-year-old Corky Corcoran's childhood, and her family hires a Haitian housekeeper who brings her daughter, America, along with her. Corky is quick to befriend America and eager to share her favorite new "grown-up" novel, To Kill a Mockingbird....
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