libraries

Leilong's friends are taking him to story time at the library. But it's difficult for a large brontosaurus without a library card to follow the rules. Especially when Leilong gets caught up in the story and joins in. Is Leilong too big for the library, or is the library too small?.

"Working at the local library, Aleisha reads every book on a secret list she found, which transports her from the painful realities she's facing at home, and decides to pass the list on to a lonely widower desperate to connect with his bookworm granddaughter"--OCLC.

Frankie McGee's mother takes him to the public library, where she tries to persuade him to choose a book about cars, heliciptors, or anything else while he insists on yet another book about tractors.

"Zach would much rather watch TV than flip through a boring book. But thanks to his friend's stubborn efforts to show him the magic and excitement of reading, Jack finally goes to the library and finds a book he can't put down. Featuring simple, rhyming text by Gabby Dawnay and dynamic pen- and-ink drawings by illustrator Ian Morris, this story is an ode to the joys of reading and a love letter to books and libraries"--Provided by publisher.

When Desmond and Andres go to the Kersville Library for a school assignment, they encounter a ghost who insists they be quiet.

"This programming guide offers interactive events for tweens, teens, millennials, and adults as well as families. A section on themed club programming is also included"--Provided by publisher.

When Littletown Library is destroyed by a tornado, it seems like book-loving Nia is the only one who cares; so she starts the "new free library" under the tree where she used to read, and writes out familiar stories and rhymes that are just a little bit wrong, and encourages the people who check them out to correct them--until soon the whole of Littletown is filled with people reading and writing books.

A young librarian rides a pack horse through the mountains to deliver books to children in Appalachia during the Great Depression. Includes historical note on the packhorse library project.

"Five-year-old Pari accompanies her mother on her library bus rounds for the first time, stopping at a village and a refugee camp so that girls there can exchange books and have a lesson in English. Talking with her mother as they drive, Pari learns that she is lucky that she can attend school the next year. Pari's mother had to learn in secret when it was forbidden to teach girls to read, and the young women the bus visits weekly have no other access to education. Inspired by the first library bus to operate in Kabul, Afghanistan"--Provided by publisher.

Daniel and O are at the library with Uncle X, who is going to read a book for story time, but O gets distracted by all of the other books in the room.