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Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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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
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...
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is a contemporary fantasy debut. It's a story of motherhood, sacrifice, and hope; of queer identity and learning to accept who you are; of gilded lies and the danger of believing the narratives others create for you. Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet...
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS...but someone is trying to censor what the kids are reading"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
xi, 372 pages, 1 folded plate [4] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book -- that string of confused, alien ciphers -- shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist Alberto Manguel moves from this essential moment to explore the 6000-year-old conversation between words and that magician without whom the book would be a lifeless object: the reader....
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Lemoncello holds a contest for his young friends where they must race to bring interesting facts back to his library"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
The author of the "His Dark Materials" trilogy shares insights into the art of writing while exploring how education, religion, and science, as well as his favorite classics, helped shaped his literary life.
"From the internationally best-selling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, a spellbinding journey into the secrets of his art--the narratives that shaped his vision, his experience of writing and understanding the magic of storytelling....
Author
Series
Dory fantasmagory volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Dory's best friend learns to read before she does, Dory retreats into her wild imagination and finds herself in the middle of one of the babyish books she is struggling to read where she encounters imaginary friends and enemies"--
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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Everyone has a dream -- something she fantasizes about doing and generally never gets around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream, and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, a small circle of seven young women gathered together every Thursday in secret at her home to read and discuss great books of Western literature. At first they were suspicious of one another, reticent and afraid to speak their...
17) 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.
Author
Series
Story thieves volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Mysteries abound as memory-erased Owen Conners, boy magician Kiel Gnomenfoot, and their half-fictional friend Bethany confront secrets, stolen memories, hidden clues, surprising twists and endings, and some very familiar faces.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he's spending the summer is the testing ground of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.
Author
Language
English
Description
An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics — from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memories — observed in #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman’s probing, amusing, and distinctive style. An inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator, and assiduous craftsman, Neil Gaiman has long been celebrated for the sharp intellect and startling imagination that informs his bestselling fiction. Now, The View from...
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