books and reading

Christmas is almost here, and the Christmas sleepover at the public library may be canceled because strange noises in the library cellar have led to rumors that the library is haunted--so Abby and her friends set out to catch a ghost.

Summer is almost gone, and third-grader Abby Spencer and her friends, the Book Bunch, are spending their time working on a play for the local public library, and visiting Abigail Flynn at the Evergreen Nursing Home.

Kenny Rabbit tries to save his friend, the dragon, after he is labeled a community nuisance by the simple people of Roundbrook village, who arrange for the creature to be fought by St. George.

Elizabeth Brown loves to read more than anything else, but when her collection of books grows and grows, she must make a change in her life.

"A seventeen-year-old girl jumps between the lines of books and into the white space where realities are created and destroyed--but who may herself be nothing more than a character written into being from an alternative universe"--Provided by publisher.

Luis loves to read, but soon his house in Colombia is so full of books there's barely room for the family. He comes up with the perfect solution. He buys two donkeys and travels with them throughout the land, bringing books and reading to the children in faraway villages.

While her mother undergoes radical cancer treatment, eleven-year-old Ella stays with her father's mother in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she learns about grammar and family history, and helps investigate the theft of an extremely rare book from her grandmother's library.

A comprehensive analysis of the works of Marcus Valerius Martialis, a Latin poet best known for his twelve books of epigrams published in Rome between AD 86 and 103.

Explores how readers' advisors can expand their repertoire and make better use of the library's collection by incorporating nonfiction into the readers' advisory.

At the end of 2003, as the first issue of The Believer was rising from the primordial ooze, Nick Hornby turned in the inaugural installment of a monthly column that immediately became a reader favorite. For the next ten years, Hornby?s incandescently funny ?Stuff I?ve Been Reading? chronicled a singular reading life ? one that is measured not just in ?books bought? and ?books read,? as each column begins, but in the way our feelings toward Celine Dion say a lot about who we are, the way Body Shop Vanilla Shower Gel can add excitement to our days, and the way John Updike might ruin our sex lives. Hornby?s column is both an impeccable, wide-ranging reading list and an indispensable reminder of why we read.