Beverly is thrilled to finally check out a book with her own library card, but when she accidentally keeps the book too long she worries that she'll have to pay a huge fine or go to jail.
As Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double--tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, and demands that Bluejay either surrender or doom the children to slavery in the silver mines.
Examines short stories, poems, plays, and novels by literary greats such as Shakespeare, Keats, Austen, Whitman, and Hemingway to show twenty-first-century readers the pleasure and power of reading.
Dubbed a "reluctant reader" by his teacher, twelve-year-old Derek spends summer vacation learning important lessons even though he does not complete his summer reading list.
While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tom?s finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library.
Graham Elmore hates school, but as the year progresses toward the day that is both his birthday and the hundredth day of school, Graham's reading improves, and so does his outlook.
