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Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After her beautiful Outer Banks Wedding, Lucy hears from her boss at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library that her friend never made it back from the reception, in the tenth novel of the series following Death by Beach Read.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Morris Lessmore loves words, stories and books; after a powerful storm carries him to another land, dreary and colorless, he finds a single book in color that leads him to an amazing library where, he learns, the books need him as much as he needs them.
Author
Series
Cherry Cola Book Club volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Welcome to the quirky town of Cherico, Mississippi, where potluck meetings at the local library provide a feast for mind and stomach alike. . . If some folks had their way, the Cherico library would have shut down long ago. Councilman Durden Sparks aims to divert funding to a cause dear to his heart--and his wallet. With the aid of gumption and good friends, librarian Maura Beth Mayhew has finagled a one-year reprieve, and the burgeoning book club...
64) The spy's secret
Author
Series
Key hunters volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In their second trip through the enchanted library, Cleo and Evan find themselves in a spy story, where they must stop a traitor named Viper--and they find themselves working with the mysterious replacement librarian, Ms. Crowley.
65) The haunted howl
Author
Series
Key hunters volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In their third trip through the enchanted library, Cleo and Evan land in "The Werewolf's Curse" where Evan is promptly bitten by a werewolf, and the two need to find the cure--and the next key--before the full moon rises and Evan becomes stuck in this horror story forever.
Author
Series
Dragon keepers volume 3
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Jesse and Daisy go online to ask dragon expert Professor Andersson for advice on how to appease their discontented dragon Emmy, and witness his kidnapping by Sadie Huffington, the girlfriend of their enemy, St. George the Dragon Slayer, sending them rushing to the rescue.
71) The wizard's war
Author
Series
Key hunters volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
This time Cleo, Evan, and Ms. Crowley (who, it turns out, is the missing Ms. Hilliard's sister) find themselves in a confusing fantasy book, caught up in a war with wizards, elves, trolls, and the mighty Golden Dragon--and while they manage to find their missing librarian, their quest does not end there.
72) Sword and Pen
Author
Series
Great library volume 5
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The corrupt leadership of the Great Library has fallen. But with the Archivist plotting his return to power, and the Library under siege from outside empires and kingdoms, its future is uncertain. Jess Brightwell and his friends must come together as never before, to forge a new future for the Great Library . . . or see everything it stood for crumble.
73) Book club babies
Author
Series
Cherry Cola Book Club volume 6
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the colorful small town of Cherico, Mississippi, librarian Maura Beth McShay is overseeing the opening of the new library and preparing for the birth of her first child with some help from the Cherry Cola Book Club. In another plot twist, her husband's sister has come to stay during her own pregnancy"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Born in the Library, daughter of a Library god, Freida has spent her whole life exploring its ever-changing tunnels, and communing with its gods--but then she meets Joshua, a Tierran boy desperate to save his people, and Nergüi, disciple of a persecuted minority, and to help them she will risk everything.
Author
Series
How to train your dragon volume 6
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
It's Hiccups birthday, but he must save his dragon, Toothless, from being banished. He sneaks into the Meathead Public Library to steal the Vikings' sacred book, but must brave the Hairy Scary Librarian, the army of Meathead Warriors, and the Driller Dragons.
76) The wild book
Author
Publisher
Yonder, Restless Books for the Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A story of a boy who goes to live with his kooky, book-obsessed uncle in a library where books have a supernatural power all their own.
Author
Series
Forbidden library volume 3
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"After learning the truth about her uncle Geryon, 13-year-old Alice--with the encouragement of the magical giant feline, Ending--ventures into a dangerous land searching for a mysterious book that will allow her to exact her revenge on Geryon, and unwittingly sets off a far larger and more dangerous battle than she ever imagined"--
Author
Series
Forbidden library volume 2
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Alice and five other apprentice Readers face the fight of their lives when they are sent into the magical library of a late rival Reader--a library that's still protected by a vicious guardian"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being After the tragic death his beloved musician father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house-a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the author's family history, this...story transports us to the aftermath of World War II where her father, Josef Helfer, after returning from the war an amputee, managed a convalescent home for the war-wounded and became obsessed with the home's unlikely and remarkable library"--
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