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141) Building books
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
Katie loves building with blocks. She's bored by books. Her brother Owen likes to lose himself in a story. A school librarian convinces them to see the possibilities in the other's hobby.
Author
Series
Library of Ever volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Lenora returns to the magical Library -- which holds every book ever known on its shelves. But she discovers the Library is under new management, its incredible rooms and corridors turned dark and sinister. She quickly connects with a secret resistance that's trying to free knowledge from the shadows threatening it. Her new friends introduce her to an ancient lost city, hang gliding, and mathematical beings larger than the universe itself. And they...
143) Turn on the night
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
A little girl falls asleep, her book in hand, and as she dreams an astonishing adventure unfolds. This wordless picture book celebrates the joy and freedom that can be found in stories, dreams and the imagination.
144) The fire chronicle
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
437 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"In the second book in the Books of Beginning Trilogy, Michael and Emma must track down the Chronicle of Life, while Kate must find a way back to present day from the year 1899"--
145) Off the page
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
372 pages : illustrations (some in color) ; 24 cm
Description
Sixteen-year-old Delilah is finally united with Oliver -- a prince literally taken from the pages of a fairy tale. There are, however, complications now that Oliver has been able to enter the real world. To exist in Delilah's world, Oliver must take the place of a regular boy. Enter Edgar, who agrees to take Oliver's role in Delilah's favorite book. In this multilayered universe, the line between what is on the page and what is possible is blurred,...
146) Abby in Oz
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
223 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
"Abby, her two friends Robin and Frankie, and the annoying Penny, are in their treehouse arguing about what to do for their special school project when a tornado appears out of nowhere, scoops up the treehouse, and transports them all to the land of Oz, where they are soon confronted by Wicked Witch of the East (who is very much alive, and rather angry), and must save a story that is going completely sideways--all because of the evil Gluck." --
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Description
"Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival the Guadalupian Library hosts every year! Everyone has a special book they're looking for, but there's so much to see and do first. From cookbook demonstrations and comics workshops to mask making and language classes, this library has something for everyone. Can Little Lobo, Bernabé, Kooky Dooky, Coco Rocho, and La Chida each find the book of their dreams?"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Eleven-year-old Pearl Moran cannot imagine life without the historic but under-utilized branch of the New York Public Library where she was born (in the Memorial Room) and where her single mother works as the circulation librarian; the other librarians, the neighborhood people, the raccoons, and most of the 41,000 plus books all form the structure and essence of her life--but when someone cuts off the head of the library's statue of Edna St. Vincent...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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...
151) Potterwookiee
Author
Series
Creature from my closet volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
245 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
"The latest creature to emerge from Rob's closet is a cross between Chewbacca from Star Wars and Harry Potter. Rob names him "Potterwookiee" ("Hairy" for short) and soon Rob finds himself treading water as he tries to figure out how to care for his mixed-up friend"--
152) The Lord of the hat
Author
Series
Creature from my closet volume 5
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
247 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Rob Burnside thinks he's getting the hang of things. It almost seems as if he has learned all he needed to from his unusual closet. Beardy, the doorknob, has it locked up and there are no signs of the closet door opening again. But something slips from the closet unnoticed and that something is part Gollum, part Cat in the Hat. He's an intense creature with mad rhyming skills. When Rob's family wins a trip to Colorado, something extra makes it into...
153) Bunny's book club
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Description
Bunny loves to sit outside the library with the kids and listen to summer story time. But when the weather gets cold and everyone moves inside, his daily dose of joy is gone. Desperate, Bunny refuses to miss out on any more reading time and devises a plan to sneak into the library at night... through the library's book drop!
154) Saving Fable
Author
Series
Talespinners volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Indira has been a character-in-waiting her entire life. So she can't believe her luck when she's finally chosen to travel to Fable and study at the renowned Protagonist Preparatory, a school known for producing the best heroes. But Indira's dreams of achieving hero status don't exactly go as planned. A failed audition lands her in the school's side-character track, and her best efforts to prove advisors--famous characters like Alice from Wonderland...
155) The library book
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
35 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, music ; 27 x 29 cm
Description
Using the lyrics to Tom Chapin and Michael Mark's "The Library Song," this picture book celebrates the magic of reading and of libraries.
156) This is Sadie
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Description
"Sadie is a small girl with a big imagination. She likes to make and do and be lots of different things. Maybe you're a bit like her?"--Jacket.
"Sadie is a little girl with a big imagination. She has been a girl who lived under the sea and a boy raised by wolves. She has had adventures in wonderland and visited the world of fairytales. She whispers to the dresses in her closet and talks to birds in the treetops. She has wings that take her anywhere...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
352 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
Children read aloud in various settings to celebrate of El día de los niños, or Children's Day, in this bilingual story. Includes facts about Mexico's annual celebration of children and the book fiestas that are often included.
159) Kissing in America
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In the two years since her father died, sixteen-year-old Eva has found comfort in reading romance novels -- 118 of them, to be exact -- to dull the pain of her loss that's still so present. Her romantic fantasies become a reality when she meets Will, who seems to truly understand Eva's grief. Unfortunately, after Eva falls head-over-heels for him, he picks up and moves to California without any warning. Not wanting to lose the only person who has...
Author
Series
Sea of ink and gold volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
487 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Description
Archer searches for a way to combat his nightmares of his time with the impressors, and begins to develop a taste for violence. Meanwhile Sefia becomes more and more consumed by her study of the Book and begins to believe that Archer is the boy from the legends, destined to die in a bloody war. Hiding in the Delienean forest, they tend to their wounds while planning their next move. But the Guard is coming, and will stop nothing to have them-- and...
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