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1) Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library

Author

Grabenstein, Chris

Series

Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 1

Language

English

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Kids Staff Picks
National Library Week
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Paperback

Formats

Book, Book on CD, eBook, Kindle, Playaway

Description

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"When Kyle learns that the world's most famous game maker has designed the town's new library and is having an invitation-only lock-in on the first night, he is determined to be there. What he doesn't realize is that getting in is the easy part. Getting out is going to take more than a good roll of the dice." -- from the inside cover

2) How to read literature like a professor: a lively and entertaining guide to reading between the lines

Author

Foster, Thomas C

Language

English

Description

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"A lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes and contexts, that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable. While many books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, there are often deeper literary meanings interwoven in these texts. [This book] helps us to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the eyes-- and the literary codes-- of...

3) The Bookshop on the Corner: A Novel

Author

Colgan, Jenny

Series

Kirrinfief

Language

English

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10 to Try - All About Books

Formats

Book, Book Discussion Kit, Book on CD, eBook, Kindle

Description

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Nina Redmond is a librarian with a gift for finding the perfect book for her readers. But can she write her own happy-ever-after? In this valentine to readers, librarians, and book-lovers the world over, the New York Times-bestselling author of Little Beach Street Bakery returns with a funny, moving new novel for fans of Nina George's The Little Paris Bookshop.

Nina is a literary matchmaker. Pairing

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4) Beverly Billingsly borrows a book

Author

Stadler, Alexander

Series

Beverly Billingsly books volume 1

Language

English

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Librarians are the Coolest People
National Library Week

Description

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Beverly is thrilled to finally check out a book with her own library card, but when she accidentally keeps the book too long she worries that she'll have to pay a huge fine or go to jail.

5) Library Lil

Author

Williams, Suzanne

Publisher

Dial Books for Young Readers

Edition

1st ed.

Language

English

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Librarians are the Coolest People

Description

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A formidable librarian makes readers not only out of the once resistant residents of her small town, but out of a tough-talking, television-watching motorcycle gang as well.

6) The little Paris bookshop: a novel

Author

George, Nina

Series

Wheeler large print hardcover

Language

English

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Be Kind Adults & Teens
Novels with Recipes

Formats

Book, Book on CD, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

Description

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"'There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies--I mean books--that were written for one person only...A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that's how I sell books.' Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes...

7) Mr. Wiggle loves to read

Author

Thompson, Carol

Publisher

Waterbird Books

Language

English

Description

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Mr. Wiggle explores, in rhyming text and illustrations, the differences between fiction and nonfiction books, how they are classified, and the sections of the library where they can be found.

8) How to read a story

Author

Messner, Kate

Publisher

Chronicle Books

Language

English

Description

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"Accomplished storytellers Kate Messner and Mark Siegel chronicle the process of becoming a reader: from pulling a book off the shelf and finding someone with whom to share a story, to reading aloud, predicting what will happen, and--finally--coming to The End. This picture book playfully and movingly illustrates the idea that the reader who discovers the love of reading finds, at the end, the beginning."--Amazon.com.

9) The book of speculation: a novel

Author

Swyler, Erika

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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Librarians are the Coolest People
National Library Week

Description

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"Simon Watson, a young librarian on the verge of losing his job, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home--a house, perched on the edge of a bluff, that is slowly crumbling toward the sea. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, works for a traveling carnival reading tarot cards, and seldom calls. On a day in late June, Simon receives a mysterious package from...

10) The island of Dr. Libris

Author

Grabenstein, Chris

Language

English

Formats

Book, Book on CD

Description

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A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.

11) The book that no one wanted to read

Author

Ayoade, Richard

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audio

Description

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Publisher Annotation: From actor-author-broadcaster-comedian-filmmaker Richard Ayoade comes a book narrated by... a book. Quirky, smart, and genre-busting, this is the saga of a book that nobody wants to read-until the day it meets YOU.

12) Lola at the library

Author

McQuinn, Anna

Series

Lola books volume 1
Lola Reads

Language

English

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Librarians are the Coolest People
National Library Week
Read in Color Picture Books
More Lists...

Formats

Book, Wonderbook

Description

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Every Tuesday Lola and her mother visit their local library to return and check out books, attend story readings, and share a special treat.

13) The book of doors: a novel

Author

Brown, Gareth

Language

English

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10 to Try - All About Books

Formats

Book, Audio

Description

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A debut novel full of magic, adventure, and romance, The Book of Doors opens up a thrilling world of contemporary fantasy for readers of The Midnight Library, The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, The Night Circus, and any modern story that mixes the wonder of the unknown with just a tinge of darkness.

Cassie Andrews works in a New York City bookshop, shelving books, making coffee for customers, and living an unassuming, ordinary

...

14) The bee tree

Author

Polacco, Patricia

Publisher

Philomel

Language

English

Description

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To teach his daughter the value of books, a father leads a growing crowd in search of the tree where the bees keep all their honey.

15) Get ready to read!

Author

Lakin, Pat

Series

My school

Publisher

Raintree Steck-Vaughn

Language

English

Description

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Tim, a reluctant reader, becomes excited about a reading assignment when his teacher lets Tim illustrate his own book.

16) I Still Hate to Read!

Author

Marshall, Rita

Publisher

Creative Editions

Language

English

Description

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Now in fourth grade, Victor, the daydreamer with a reputation as a bad student who hates to read, secretly reads all the time.

17) The Tickety Tale Teller

Author

Haselhurst, Maureen

Series

QEB Storytime

Publisher

QEB Pub

Language

English

Description

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The Tickety Tale Teller is so busy going from house to house to tell stories to all the children that she becomes exhausted, prompting her to figure out a way to make her job easier.

18) Read anything good lately?

Author

Allen, Susan, 1951

Publisher

Millbrook Press

Language

English

Description

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An alphabetical look at some different places and things to read, from an atlas at the airport to a zodiac at the zoo.

19) The book no one ever read

Author

Funke, Cornelia

Publisher

Breathing Books

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

Description

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What if books want to be read as much as we want to read them? This is certainly true of our young hero in The Book No One Ever Read. Morry, a young book, is tired of standing still on a shelf amid dignified first editions, and yearns for the excitement of sharing his story with a child.

20) Miss Malarkey leaves no reader behind

Author

Finchler, Judy

Series

Miss Malarkey volume 6

Publisher

Walker & Co

Language

English

Description

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Miss Malarkey vows to find each of her students a book to love by the end of the school year, but one video-game loving boy proves to be a challenge.

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1) Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library

2) How to read literature like a professor: a lively and entertaining guide to reading between the lines

3) The Bookshop on the Corner: A Novel

4) Beverly Billingsly borrows a book

5) Library Lil

6) The little Paris bookshop: a novel

7) Mr. Wiggle loves to read

8) How to read a story

9) The book of speculation: a novel

10) The island of Dr. Libris

11) The book that no one wanted to read

12) Lola at the library

13) The book of doors: a novel

14) The bee tree

15) Get ready to read!

16) I Still Hate to Read!

17) The Tickety Tale Teller

18) Read anything good lately?

19) The book no one ever read

20) Miss Malarkey leaves no reader behind

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