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Author
Series
My weird school volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A.J. and his classmates are convinced that the new school librarian, Mrs. Roopy, has multiple personality disorder because she keeps pretending to be famous people.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who rides a pack horse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's a new school year, and something is different. The students' beloved librarian, Ms. Stack, has retired. The new librarian, Ms. Bangle, is not the same! She has different ways of doing, well, everything! How will the students ever adjust? Change isn't easy, but it can be a positive experience. With a bit of patience, and a lot of heart, it can be positively brilliant"--Book jacket flap.
Author
Series
Alcatraz Smedry adventures volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When a hero is needed to save the doomed kingdom of Mokia from the evil Librarians, thirteen-year-old Alcatraz Smedry, whose family talents include getting lost and breaking things, answers the call.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When evil Dr. Glockenspiel threatens all the books in the world, only one person can stop him--a book-wielding, super-secret operative called Lyric McKerrigan.
13) Dear Librarian
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this story based on the author's life, a young homeless girl finds a different kind of home in the library.
Author
Series
The Brixton Brothers volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Steve Brixton, a fan of Bailey Brothers detective novels, is mistaken for a real detective, he must elude librarians, police, and the mysterious Mr. E as he seeks a missing quilt containing coded information.
Author
Publisher
NorthSouth
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When the sun goes down, fireflies, bats, and nighthawks wake up. Together they follow the call of the Night Librarian and visit the Twilight Library. The creatures make themselves comfortable on the forest floor as the Night Librarian transports them to the land of imagination with her silken silver stories"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Series
How to be a supervillain volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old do-gooder Victor Spoil gets a job at the library, he uncovers a plot by the librarians to hypnotize all the adults of the world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Katie's parents take her to the library one rainy Saturday, she finds a lot of her friends and, with the help of librarian Miss Bliss, takes home some "super-duper" books. Includes glossary, discussion questions, and an interview.
Author
Series
Alcatraz vs. the evil librarians volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry receives a bag of sand which is immediately stolen by the evil Librarians who are trying to take over the world, and Alcatraz is introduced to his grandfather and his own special talent, and told that he must use it to save civilization.
Author
Publisher
POW!
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Returning to her post on a bench in front of the burned-out remains of a beloved library, a dedicated librarian reads out loud from books that have survived until her persistence helps bolster her community's recovery, in a story inspired by the Bosnian War bombing of the National Library of Sarajevo.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Alex is an apprentice librarian in a kingdom that keeps all the books locked up but doesn't know if it's to keep the books safe from readers or... to keep readers safe from the books! When the royal librarian suspiciously dies, Alex impersonates the old man so the young queen won't know who he really is. She gives the scruffy, obnoxious boy enough time to prove himself-- and enough time for them to learn that the books are more than just powerful,...
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