libraries

Presents a storytime cookbook, from the basics of creation of appropriate opportunities for learning, to the ingredients of books, fingerplays, and activities, to a series of "menus" for storytimes.

During the Iraq War of 2003, librarian Alia Muhammad saves thirty thousand new and old books in her Basra library from destruction.

This book introduces Mr. Field, a school librarian who knows how to find information in a library, how to use the library, and how to be a technology wizard.

Oklahoma teen Neal Barton stands up for his favorite fantasy series, The Chronicles of Apathea Ravenchilde, when conservative Christians try to bully the town of Americus into banning it from the public library.

Buddy the dog discovers a strange, blue-tongued creature in the school library, and investigates what it is and how it got there.

Along with eleven other orphans, Carolyn is taken in by a mysterious man named Father and assigned to a particular section of his library at Garrison Oaks, where she is told to master the subject of languages. When Father goes missing, Carolyn prepares to protect the library against an army of potential usurpers who, by taking control of the library, can inherit the power of life and death over all living things.

When ghost boy Kaz's haunt is torn down and he is separated from his ghost family, he meets a real girl named Claire, who lives above the town library with her parents and her grandmother. Claire has a special ability to see ghosts when other humans.

Mouse gives a book to Fox on new ideas of how not to eat mice at the library.

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.

Photographs and simple text describe the job of a librarian and the different tools they use.