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Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Dorothy has always wanted to work in a library like the red brick one of her girlhood, but after moving to rural North Carolina she discovers that the type of library is less important than the books and the people who read them.
83) Wild about books
Author
Series
Springfield Zoo volume 1
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
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Description
"From the author of the "dazzling. . . . and daring" Pond (O magazine), the adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets-and dreams up-along the way. In a working-class town in a county west of London, a schoolgirl scribbles in the back pages of her exercise book, thrilling to the first sparks of her own inventiveness. As she grows, she becomes one on whom nothing is lost. Not the novels an eccentric customer...
87) The Starless Sea
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"Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a rare book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues -- a bee, a key, and a sword -- that lead...
90) The library card
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Four short stories about four young people in different circumstances and how their lives are changed by their encounters with books.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Bright but unenthusiastic middle school student Charlie Joe Jackson signs up for the school play in an attempt to get straight As on his last quarter report card in order to avoid having to go to Camp Rituhbukkee over the summer.
92) Inkheart
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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
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
With his Uncle Horatio trapped in an enchanted sleep by the power-hungry Alchemist, Milo sets off with Alessia to find a cure with the help of the Botanist, and in their hunt for an antidote, they must forage in the Secret Garden, challenge Robin Hood, and confront the mighty Jabberwock.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
After losing his brother, mom, and most of his friends, Aaron Stein is left with his shambolic father alone in their moldering secondhand bookstore, but just when he considers selling the store he meets new people and takes on new challenges, helping himcome to terms with what he has lost and who he wants to be.
Author
Series
Charlie Joe Jackson's guide to-- volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Middle schooler Charlie Joe is proud of his success at avoiding reading, but eventually his schemes go too far.
Author
Series
Bear and Mouse volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Although he sees no need for more books to read, Bear agrees to accompany Mouse to the library.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Sunny and Aarush reach for the same book at the library, they try to resolve the conundrum by searching through the stacks to find something else for the other to read, but maybe what they find instead is even better.
98) It's a book
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
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Description
Two readers compare a print to digital media, and learn books are still valuable.
Author
Series
Stink Moody volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Only one more week until book #5 in the Nightmare on Zombie Street series comes out. When it does, Stink will the first in line to buy his copy and join the town's Midnight Zombie Walk! Until then, Stink and his friends keep busy, working on zombie costumes and racking up points for the race to One Million Minutes of Reading. With all the talk about the undead, Stink starts to wonder: is he being hunted by zombies?
100) The Book Thief
Pub. Date
2014
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Description
Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding around them.