books and reading

When a new book arrives at the library with a secret code written inside, Derek, with the help of his friends, follows the clues from one novel to the next and makes a discovery that may help him get past a terrible loss.

Morris Lessmore loves words, stories and books, and after a tornado carries him to another land, dreary and colorless, he finds a single book in color that leads him to an amazing library where, he learns, the books need him as much as he needs them.

"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--Provided by publisher.

Tyrone and his friends rule the school except for the library, which he thinks is boring until strange happenings during story hour change his mind.

Lori the lorikeet wants to give her grandmother a present, but after dropping her beautiful red berry into the river, she and her friends must try to retrieve the berry or find another gift.

Illustrations and simple text tell a story about a terrier named Ivan who keeps interrupting story hour.

Henry the mouse likes everything about first grade except reading, but with some extra help at school and home, he is delightfully surprised.

Presents a narrative about an aged author who flees Nazi-occupied Poland leaving his unpublished manuscript behind and a teenage girl in New York who was named after the heroine in Leo's book which was published under a different man's name.

Presents Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey", which collects her reflections on the nature of novels, their heroines, and their readers, with biographical commentary, selections from other writers, and critical essays.