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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive...
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Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Do you get books from a public library in your town or even in your school library? In many remote areas of the world, there are no library buildings. In many countries, books are delivered in unusual way: by bus, boat, elephant, donkey, train, even by wheelbarrow. Why would librarians go to the trouble of packing books on the backs of elephants or driving miles to deliver books by bus? Because, as one librarian in Azerbaijan says, "Books are as important...
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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 him...
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"Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives-- our own personal libraries-- make of us? What does the unraveling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith's new collection are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us; how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Every Tuesday Lola and her mother visit their local library to return and check out books, attend story readings, and share a special treat. Lola loves Tuesdays because that is the day she and her mother go to the library. Everything about the trip is an exciting adventure, from packing her backpack with books and her all-important library card, to storytimes and singing, to choosing new books and the walk home, when they always stop for a special...
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Pinkalicious can't stop reading! She reads in bed, at the table, and even while she is walking. When Pinkalicious can't find any new books to read at the library, what does she do? She makes a pinkamazing little library. It's booktastic!"
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"When Kyle learns that the world's most famous game maker, Luigi Lemoncello, has designed the town's new library and is having an invitation-only lock-in on opening night, he's determined to be there! But the tricky part isn't getting into the library--it's getting out. Because when morning comes, the doors stay locked. Kyle and the other kids must solve every clue and figure out every secret puzzle to find the hidden escape route!"--
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Those who predicted the death of libraries forgot to consider that in the automated maze of contemporary life, none of us--neither the experts nor the hopelessly baffled--can get along without human help. And not just any help--we need librarians, who won't charge us by the question or roll their eyes, no matter what we ask. Who are they? What do they know? And how quickly can they save us from being buried by the digital age? This book is a romp...
14) The shelf elf
Author
Publisher
Upstart Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Skoob the Shelf Elf learns all about the proper way to handle books and behave in the library.
15) Library lion
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A lion starts visiting the local library but runs into trouble as he tries to both obey the rules and help his librarian friend.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
It's Read to a Pet Day at the library! There are so many fun things to see and do! Biscuit plays with story-time puppets, visits with friends, and listens to recorded books. Before he goes, a librarian helps him find the activity that he loves most of all. This joyful story will help cultivate a love of books and libraries in children who are learning to read.
Author
Series
Goosebumps volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Lucy has told so many monster tales that when she discovers a real live monster, the librarian in charge of the summer reading program, no one believes a word she says.
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