libraries

During the early days of the Great Depression, New York City's first Puerto Rican librarian, Pura Belpre, introduces the public library to immigrants living in El Barrio and hosts the neighborhood's first Three Kings' Day fiesta.

A raccoon and his friends go to great lengths to make sure they will always have a library from which to borrow books.

Provides an overview of the activities children participate in during a visit to the school library, in rhyming verse that can be sung to the tune of THE WHEELS ON THE BUS.

Librarian Alia Muhammad Baker, concerned about the safety of the public library in Basra, Iraq, after the outbreak of war in 2003, begins moving books to other locations, managing to save over seventy percent of the collection before the building is destroyed by fire.

Every Tuesday Lola and her mother visit their local library to return and check out books, attend story readings, and share a special treat.

When outlaw Dirk Yeller arrives in Cowtown looking for something to take away his cat-scratch fever, young Sam, whose pa says he is "a world-a-trouble and curious as a tomcat, " knows just what this dangerous and jittery criminal needs to calm him down.

When his mission to save one of their own goes awry, Jesse Brightwell is forced to chose between his friends and family as his band of allies go on the run to escape the clutches of the Library's deadly automata.

Vivi Calderon becomes the target of a stalker after she finds a stash of incriminating notes, written by a young woman who was killed in suspicious circumstance years earlier, hidden between the pages of library books.

Includes The Unbound and The Archived. Follow Mackenzie as she explores the boundary between living and dying, sleeping and waking, through these two timeless novels, now bound together in this thrilling collection. With stunning prose and a captivating mixture of action, romance, and horror, The Dark Vault delves into a richly imagined world where no choice is easy and love and loss feel like two sides of the same coin.

An introduction to the work that librarians do.