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1) The notebook
Author
Series
Calhoun family saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a testimony to the lasting power of love, a man tells an elderly woman a story from a faded old notebook, his voice relating the heartbreaking tale of two lovers and their fifty-year journey to happiness.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xii, 257 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community--an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how could this be? How could Nathaniel Hawthorne have so perfectly...
Author
Publisher
Meadowbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
xii, 243 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents step-by-step instructions for activities that parents and children can share, all related to fifty popular picture books, including such works as "Curious George," "Little Toot," and "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie."
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bored with another normal, inky evening, bats discover an open library window and fly in to enjoy the photocopier, water fountain, and especially the books and stories found there.
7) Art matters
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 948 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A celebration of the reading life presents a cross-genre, historically representative compendium of one thousand works of literature, complemented by essays on each book's particular relevance.
12) The library
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Book lover Elizabeth Brown, whose constant reading keeps her from playing with dolls or doing just about anything else, finds her house so full of books that she has to start her own public library
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"--Provided by publisher.
14) The ink drinker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
What's a boy to do when he hates to read and he's stuck in his father's bookstore over vacation? Spy on customers, that's what! The adventure begins when the boy spots a strange-looking customer shuffling through the shelves. The man isn't browsing--he's sucking up the ink of every printed work with a straw! Scared but curious, the boy follows the weird, pale fellow to a cemetery-where the boy ends up developing a taste for something much more filling...
15) Don't blink!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
53 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An interactive bedtime story that gives young readers a chance to avoid bedtime, provided they don't blink, but for every blink, a page turns, bringing the end of the story and sleep closer.
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello 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"--
17) Prairie school
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
47 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1880, Noah's aunt teaches the reluctant nine-year-old how to read as they explore the Colorado prairie together, Noah pushing Aunt Dora in her wheelchair.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009, c2005
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[34] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captain Barnacle Black Ear, baddest of the Buccaneer Bunnies, is ashamed of his book-loving son, Henry, until the day a great storm approaches.