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Thirteen-year-old Jamie must spend her summer volunteering at Foxfield Public Library, but quickly grows to love the people there and enthusiastically joins the fight to save the library.--

"No one knows Margo's real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small-town public library only know her middle-aged normalcy, congeniality, and charm. They have no reason to suspect that she is, in fact, a former nurse with a trail of countless premature deaths in her wake. She has turned a new page, so to speak, and the library is her sanctuary, a place to quell old urges. That is, at least, until Patricia, a recent graduate and failed novelist,...

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. It started the summer of 2002, when the Springfield librarian, Molly McGrew, by mistake drove her bookmobile into the zoo. In this rollicking rhymed story, Molly introduces birds and beasts to this new something called reading. She finds the perfect book for every animal-tall books for giraffes, tiny ones for...

“ 'Everyone knows me, but none can see me. I’m that thing you call love.' In a little town in the south of France in the 1960s, a dazzling encounter with Love itself changes the life of infant orphan Marie-Jeanne forever. As a girl, Marie-Jeanne realizes that she can see the marks Love has left on the people around her—tiny glowing lights on the faces and hands that shimmer more brightly when the one meant for them is near. Before long, Marie-Jeanne...

"Oskar and and his bear Theodore must save the day when an angry monster barges into the library...and thinks it's an all-you-can-eat buffet!"--

Last seen in the oversized books section, Turnus the page has disappeared, and now the Librarian must venture into the Shifting Shelves, a maze of constantly moving book shelves created by the evil wizard who once possessed all the treasures of the library; he finds Turnus, but the boy is stuck to a glowing red book, and the Librarian must find a way to break this curse if the two of them are ever to make it back to the Library.

When Lola's favorite book is not on the library's shelf, her older brother, Charlie, tries to find another book she will enjoy.

Publisher Annotation: Alone In a fierce winter storm Nickel and Flora are brave but afraid. A dog finds them. Teddy Speaks words and brings them to shelter. The poets cabin has light and food and love. But where is the Poet? Teddy will tell the story of how words make poems and connect those who hear each other. The Poets Dog from Newbery Medalwinning author Patricia MacLachlan is a poignant story about two children, a poet, and a dog and how they...