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1) Funny story
Author
Language
English
Description
"Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to begin a relationship with his lifelong best friend, Petra. And so that's how Daphne's story really begins: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan,...
Author
Series
Little Bridge Island volume 2
Language
English
Description
A broken engagement only gave Molly Montgomery additional incentive to follow her dream job from the Colorado Rockies to the Florida Keys. Now, as Little Bridge Island Public Library's head of children's services, Molly hopes the messiest thing in her life will be her sticky-note covered desk. But fate--in the form of a newborn left in the restroom--has other ideas. So does the sheriff who comes to investigate the "abandonment." When John Hartwell...
Author
Series
Berlin bookmobile volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the second installment of the "enjoyable and charming" (USA TODAY) Shelley Shepard Gray's delightful Berlin Bookmobile series, librarian Sarah Anne Miller returns to Berlin to help a childless Amish couple form the family they've always prayed for. Miriam and Calvin Gingerich have been trying for a baby for several years, but the Lord hasn't seen fit to bless them. Though Calvin claims he's content with their childless state, Miriam knows he's...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's a new school year, and something is different. The students' beloved librarian, Ms. Stack, has retired. The new librarian, Ms. Bangle, is not the same! She has different ways of doing, well, everything! How will the students ever adjust? Change isn't easy, but it can be a positive experience. With a bit of patience, and a lot of heart, it can be positively brilliant"--Book jacket flap.
A brilliant librarian helps students to welcome big changes...
Author
Series
Goosebumps volume 8
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Because twelve-year-old Lucy pretends to see monsters everywhere, no one believes her when she discovers that the librarian in charge of the summer reading program is a real one.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen--children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains...
10) Dear Librarian
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In this story based on the author's life, a young homeless girl finds a different kind of home in the library.
11) The missing ones
Author
Series
Hester Thursby mystery volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hester Thursby has given up using her research skills to trace people who don't want to be found. A traumatic case a few months ago unearthed a string of violent crimes, and left Hester riddled with self-doubt and guilt. Finisterre Island, off the coast of Maine, is ruggedly beautiful and remote - the kind of place tourists love to visit, though rarely for long. But a dilapidated Victorian house has become home to a group of squatters and junkies....
Author
Series
My weird school volume 3
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st HarperTrophy ed.
Physical Desc
86 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A.J. and his classmates are convinced that new school librarian, Mrs. Roopy, has multiple personality disorder because she keeps pretending to be famous people.
Author
Series
Brixton brothers volume 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Steve Brixton, a fan of Bailey Brothers detective novels, is mistaken for a real detective, he must elude librarians, police, and the mysterious Mr. E as he seeks a missing quilt containing coded information.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Pearl Moran cannot imagine life without the historic but under-utilized branch of the New York Public Library where she was born (in the Memorial Room) and where her single mother works as the circulation librarian; the other librarians, the neighborhood people, the raccoons, and most of the 41,000 plus books all form the structure and essence of her life--but when someone cuts off the head of the library's statue of Edna St. Vincent...
15) The dark talent
Author
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"So there I, Alcatraz Smedry, was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed--wait, you've heard that before? Oh yeah, I wrote it at the beginning of my first book. Well, this is the one where that actually happens, I promise! I managed to beat the evil Librarians attacking Mokia (it's not on the maps the Librarians let you see, so don't try to find it), but Bastille was hit by some kind of knockout ray and is in a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Lexile measure
500L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (33 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
When someone breaks into the Library of Doom, the Librarian searches for the intruder and is struck down by a flying book. Once the Librarian wakes up, he discovers he is being held captive by his enemy, the Eraser. The Librarian must find a way to escape or all of the books in the world will be destroyed.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Lexile measure
540L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (33 p.) : col. ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a young girl wakes up in the middle of the night, she sees two strange men compelling her father to leave their home. The girl follows them as they enter the huge Library of Doom. The strangers want their criminal friends released from the pages of a pop-up book and the little girl watches in horror for what will happen next.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Lexile measure
540L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : col. ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
After waking up one night, a young boy rides out with his bike and ends up in a dark mysterious cave. There he discovers a librarian trapped by an enormous worm and the young boy is now in danger too.