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Library mouse books volume 3
Language
English
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When Sarah, an explorer mouse, meets Sam she gives him the courage to finally climb to the highest library shelves--and beyond--and he shows her how to explore the world through reading.
Author
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
Here are over seventy games to help your child learn to read--and love it. Peggy Kaye's Games for Reading helps children read by doing just what kids like best: playing games. There is a "bingo" game that helps children learn vocabulary. There is a rhyming game that helps them hear letter sounds more accurately. There are mazes and puzzles, games that train the eye to see patterns of letters, games that train the ear so a child can sound out words,...
84) Wolves
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When a young rabbit checks out a library book about wolves, he learns much more about their behavior than he wanted to know.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers the author admires above all others, from Jane Austen to Charles Dickens to Jennifer Egan.
In an age defined by hyper-connectivity and constant stimulation, Francine Prose makes a compelling case for the solitary act of reading and the great enjoyment it brings. Inspiring and illuminating, What to Read and Why includes selections culled from Prose's previous essays, reviews,...
87) Laugh out loud
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Imaginative middle schooler Jimmy follows his dream to start a unique book company while he is still a child.
Author
Series
Rover novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Wick is now Grandmagister Lamplighter of the Great Library. His trips to the mainland are fewer due to his advanced age, and lately he has enlisted an assistant by the name of Jugh to undertake those roving duties he used to relish. An encounter with a goblin ship on the high seas leads to Jugh's discovery of a book in goblin hands, a most intriguing matter that must be investigated. This single event leads to startling revelations that forewarns...
90) The binding
Author
Language
English
Description
"Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a strange letter arrives summoning him away from his family. He is to begin an apprenticeship as a Bookbinder--a vocation that arouses fear, superstition, and prejudice amongst their small community, but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse. For as long as he can recall, Emmett has been drawn to books, even though they are strictly forbidden. Bookbinding is a sacred calling, Seredith...
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Language
English
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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.
Author
Series
Story thieves volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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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.
98) The borrower
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road. Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay classes...
Author
Series
Franklin School friends volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
Kelsey is the best reader in her third grade class, and she is determined to lead her class to victory in the alll-school reading contest.
100) My ideal bookshelf
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"The books that we choose to keep-let alone read-can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In The ideal bookshelf, dozens of leading cultural figures share the books that matter to them most-books that define their dreams and ambitions and in many cases helped them find their way in the world. With colorful and endearingly hand-rendered images of book spines by Jane Mount, and first-person commentary from all the contributors, this...
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