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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
2) Inkheart
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, a young woman searches for her place in the world after finding a mysterious book in this captivating debut. In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls. Then she finds a strange book that tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure, and danger.
5) The reader
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Set in a world where reading is unheard-of, Sefia makes use of a mysterious object to track down who kidnapped her aunt Nin and what really happened the night her father was murdered"--
6) The speaker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Sefia and Archer's adventure continues as Archer searches for a way to combat his nightmares of his time with the impressors and Sefia becomes more and more consumed by her study of the Book"--
Author
Series
Springfield Zoo volume 1
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
A librarian named Mavis McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake.
11) The lost library
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a mysterious Little Free Library guarded by a large orange cat appears overnight, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change.
12) The storyteller
Author
Series
Sea of ink and gold / Reader volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As Sefia and Archer watch Kelanna start to crumble to the Guard's will, they will have to choose between their love and joining a war that just might tear them apart"--
13) The bee tree
Author
Publisher
Putnam & Grosset
Pub. Date
1998, c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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Description
To teach his granddaughter the value of books, a grandfather leads a growing crowd in search of the tree where the bees keep all their honey.
14) The book charmer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Sarah Dove is no ordinary bookworm. To her, books have always been more than just objects: they live, they breathe, and sometimes they even speak. When Sarah grows up to become the librarian in her quaint Southern town of Dove Pond, her gift helps place every book in the hands of the perfect reader. Recently, however, the books have been whispering about something out of the ordinary: the arrival of a displaced city girl named Grace Wheeler. If the...
15) Poppleton
Author
Series
Poppleton volume 1
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Poppleton the pig makes a friend, reads a library book about adventure, and helps a sick friend get better.
16) The novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lukas Yoder, a novelist who has enjoyed a long, successful career, has finished what he believes to be his final work. Then a tragedy strikes in his community, and he becomes obsessed with writing about it. Meanwhile, Yoder’s editor fights to preserve her integrity — and her author — as her firm becomes the target of a corporate takeover; a local critic who teaches literature struggles with his ambitions and with his feelings about Yoder’s...
Author
Language
English
Description
Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened. After...
20) Bibliolepsy
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Gina Apostol's debut novel, available for the first time in the US, tells of a young woman caught between a lifelong desire to escape into books and a real-world revolution. It is the mid-eighties, two decades into the kleptocratic, brutal rule of Ferdinand Marcos. The Philippine economy is in deep recession, and civil unrest is growing by the day. But Primi Peregrino has her own priorities: tracking down books and pursuing romantic connections with...
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