books and reading

An all-night read-a-thon at the Sleepy Hollow Elementary School turns into a treasure hunt when the kids read about hidden treasure in the school basement.

Ruby wants to be a teacher, but after her father's death in a logging accident she must quit school to care for her ten brothers and sisters, until a chance meeting with a lonely old blind woman transforms her life.

Clara's dream of enriching her rough life on the family farm is fulfilled when a horse-drawn book wagon visits with the country's first traveling library.

Collection of four stories in which the lives of four young people in different circumstances are changed by their encounters with books.

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

Aunt Chip saves the town of Triple Creek, where everyone has forgotten how to read because of the invasion of television.

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.

The school librarian says a book fair is coming to the school, but one little boy has heard some weird things about what will happen.

A young rabbit checks out a library book about wolves and learns much more about their behavior than he wanted to know.