libraries

Simple text and illustrations introduce librarians, discussing where they work, what they do and more. Includes audio, videos, activities, weblinks, slideshows, transparencies, maps, quizzes, and supplementary resources.

Presents the story of Alia, a librarian who lives and works in Basra, and her desperate attempt to save the books in the Basra Central Library at the start of the Iraqi War in 2003.

When eleven-year-old Langston's father moves them from their home in Alabama to Chicago's Bronzeville district, it feels like he's giving up everything he loves. It's 1946. Langston's mother has just died, and now they're leaving the rest of his family and friends. He misses everything -- Grandma's Sunday suppers, the red dirt roads, and the magnolia trees his mother loved. In the city, they live in a small apartment surrounded by noise and chaos. It doesn't feel like a new start, or a better life. At home he's lonely, his father always busy at work; at school he's bullied for being a country boy. But Langston's new home has one fantastic thing. Unlike the whites-only library in Alabama, the Chicago Public Library welcomes everyone. There, hiding out after school, Langston discovers another Langston -- a poet whom he learns inspired his mother enough to name her only son after him.

When apprentice librarian Elisabeth is implicated in sabotage that released the library's most dangerous grimoire, she gets involved in a centuries-old conspiracy that could mean the end of everything.

When the lights go out in the library, the storytime puppets set out on an adventure to find their missing friend, Hermit Crab.

After going to the library with Mrs. Furber's class every day of Library Week, I.Q., the class pet, hopes to take out a funny book with his own library card.

A library is a vibrant place with books, people, computers, meeting spaces, and more! Come visit the library through carefully leveled text and fresh, colorful photos. Critical thinking questions and a photo glossary supply readers with the basic building blocks for reading nonfiction.

Librarians Sharon Grover and Lizette Hannegan explain how audiobooks can support national learning strategies and literacy skills, featuring a concise history of the audiobook, thematic lists, a research bibliography, and a resource guide, and including a discussion about effective collection development strategies.

Text and illustrations show why libraries are needed, who works there, and what kinds of things happen there.

A boy and his pet dragon go to story time and take out books from the library.