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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...
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...
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Morwenna Phelps, sent to boarding school in England after a magical battle with her half-mad mother that left her crippled and her twin sister dead, tries to find a circle of magic-minded friends, alerting her mother to her whereabouts and bringing about a reckoning.
10) The book jumper
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"A teen girl discovers she is a book jumper--she can leap directly into books, meet the characters, and experience the world of the book"--
11) The whisper
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Her magical book of stories is wordless until a whisper in the wind tells a little girl to imagine a story for each page.
14) Story thieves
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Except for reading the Kiel Gnomenfoot magic adventure series, Owen's life is boring until he sees his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the school library and he learns that Bethany is half-fictional and has been searching every book she can findfor her missing father, a fictional character.
15) It's a book
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Two readers compare a print to digital media, and learn books are still valuable.
17) The boo! book
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Explains how to recognize a haunted book, and what to do when one finds one.
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When a man brings to a remote village two burros, Alfa and Beto, loaded with books the children can borrow, Ana's excitement leads her to write a book of her own as she waits for the BibliBurro to return. Includes glossary of Spanish terms and a note on the true story of Columbia's BiblioBurro and mobile libraries in other countries.
19) Wolves
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When a young rabbit checks out a library book about wolves, he learns much more about their behavior than he wanted to know.
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