libraries

With a swimming medal, the key to a mansion, and a comic book about a half-man/half-rat as her only clues, a twelve-year-old girl seeks the true story of her father's mysterious death four years earlier near an island in the Pacific Northwest.

An illustrated introduction to authors and illustrators.

Miss Lotta Scales, a dragon also known as Miss Lotty the librarian, wants to retire from taking care of the school's library but will not willingly stand by and see her beloved books replaced by computers.

Based on a scene from Wright's autobiography, "Black Boy", in which the seventeen-year-old African-American borrows a white man's library card and devours every book as a ticket to freedom.

Franklin borrows a book from the library on how to make super-duper kites and accidentally loses it; and now he is afraid to go back to the library unless he can find it.

Presents an introduction to libraries and reference materials, providing information on the history of the library, its different parts and types, how they are useful, and includes an explanation of the Dewey decimal system.

Simple text teaches young readers who the school librarian is, what their job is, and how they can help students.

Explains in simple terms some of the duties of a librarian.

Will a child's woolly mammoth create havoc if he is allowed in the library?.

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.