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Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"When ghost boy Kaz's haunt is torn down and he is separated from his ghost family, he meets a real girl named Claire, who lives above the town library with her parents and her grandmother. Claire has a special ability to see ghosts when other humans cannot and she and Kaz quickly form a friendship."--Amazon website.
Author
Series
Dinosaur (Bob Shea) volume 3
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Dinosaur is going to one of his favorite places, the library, and on the way he encounters a series of animals, including a cow, baby chicks, a turtle, and an owl, and shares his roars with each.
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Explains to the reader how good it is to have libraries"--
"For 5,000 years and more, libraries have been gathering and preserving writings of all kinds. They're keepers of the world's memory. They're storehouses of knowledge, and imagination, and fun. Learn about how these places and their collections of written words allow us to check our facts, find important information, share stories, beliefs and ideas, build communities, make things, and learn...
29) Librarians
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces young readers to the responsibilities of librarians and the role they play in the community.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A young woman with the extraordinary power to bring soulmates together searches for her own true love in this tender, lyrical standalone novel inspired by the "bona fide international hit" (The New York Times Book Review) The Little Paris Bookshop. In Nina George's New York Times bestseller The Little Paris Bookshop, beloved literary apothecary Jean Perdu is inspired to create a floating bookstore after reading a seminal, pseudonymous novel about...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
©2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The wind separates Kaz the ghost from his family and carries him to a library far away. When he meets Claire - a human who can actually see him - they must work together and solve some mysteries to find Kaz's family.
32) Library babies
Author
Publisher
Duo Press, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Here come the library babies, ready to give you a tour of their favorite local library! There's no place more magical than a library, where adventures can be had both inside the pages of a book and out. Here you can find hidden nooks for reading, encounter new worlds during story time, and take the big step of signing up for your very first library card. From puppet shows to getting to take out towering stacks of books to enjoy at home, this joyful...
33) PLDM scrapbook
Author
Publisher
The Library,]
Pub. Date
1904
Language
English
Description
Scrapbooks containing items documenting the history and events of the Public Library of Des Moines. 1941 issue covers the 75th anniversary; 1965, the new West Side Branch; 1966, centennial; 1976, the U.S. bicentennial; 1978, partnership with the Yucatan; 1987 issue covers the celebration of the bicentennial of the Constitution; 1991 issues cover the 125th anniversary celebration of the Public Library of Des Moines.
34) Seventh decimate
Author
Series
Great god's war volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Two kingdoms, engaged in a brutal, unrelenting conflict. Magisters on both sides wield their powerful magical decimates--of fire, of wind, of drought, of lightning, of earthquake, or of pestilence--until both kingdoms are reeling. But now, something has changed. There is a seventh decimate, one that blocks all lesser sorceries. And Prince Bifalt believes his enemy has used it against them. Unless the prince can gain this power for his kingdom, they...
35) Libraries
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It's time to visit the library! Get your library card and then explore all the library has to offer. Look through the shelves, plop down in a comfy chair to do some reading, learn something on the computer, and more. Follow along with simple text and inviting photos as you learn how libraries are part of what makes a community!"-- provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Great library volume 1
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in every major city, governing the flow of knowledge to the masses. When Jess Brightwell inadvertently commits heresy by creating a device that could change the world, Jess discovers that those who control the Great Library believe that knowledge is more valuable than any human life--and soon both heretics and books will burn.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lindsey Norris and her staff are gearing up for the Briar Creek Library's annual Dinner in the Stacks fund-raiser. The night of dinner and dancing is not only a booklover's dream--it's the library's biggest moneymaker of the year. But instead of raising funds, the new library board president is busy raising a stink and making the staff miserable. Although Olive Boyle acts like a storybook villain, Lindsey is determined to work with her and make the...
39) Library day
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Beloved author Anne Rockwell celebrates books, the love of reading, and of course, libraries, with a gorgeous new picture book about a child's first visit to the library! One day, a young boy visits the library for the very first time. While he's there he listens to stories, reads books and magazines, and learns that there are also movies, crafts, chess, and puppet shows--something for everyone! With simple, lyrical text and bright illustrations that...
40) Hydrant-hydra
Author
Series
Binder of doom volume 4
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It has been a busy summer of makerspace projects at the library and monster hunting for the three members of the Super Secret Monster Patrol, and the puddles that are appearing all over town are a clue to the identity of another monster--an angry hydra water monster who is obsessed with cleaning up (literally) the town of Stermont, even if it means drowning all the messy children who live there.
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