books and reading

As the Mother-Daughter Book Club reads Jane Eyre, the girls and some of their mothers are involved in some serious competitions, Becca finds romance when the Wyoming pen pals come for a visit, and a wedding brings the British Berkeley brothers and even Stinkerbelle to Concord.

The girls of the mother-daughter book club find their holiday family vacations going wrong when Megan and Becca both fall for the son of the cruise ship's captain, Cassidy and her family start to feel homesick while visiting Laguna Beach, and Emma and Jess see their plans changing by a disastrous sledding accident.

Al Foxword uses his charm and wit to sell anything to anyone at anytime.

Eleven-year-old Olive finds herself drawn to the grimoire of the witches who built her house and tries to use its spells to uncover the house's magic and control the cats themselves, but the book is more wicked than it seems.

A guide to helping children discover the pleasures of reading that explains how the love of reading is created and nurtured and offers simple strategies for creating a life-long devotion to reading.

A collection of essays which explore how the roles of libraries and librarians have changed throughout history.

A formidable librarian makes readers not only out of the once resistant residents of her small town, but out of a tough-talking, television-watching motorcycle gang as well.

A greedy hedgehog convinces the animals to exchange all of their books for the pictures he paints and Rita, a young raccoon, can stop him only if she locates the tree found in one of the hedgehog's paintings.

Wesley Smith, an English professor at a Kentucky college, purchases an e-book reader but receives a unique edition with a "UR" function which allows him to search multiple universes to collect data, but Smith is most surprised when he uncovers literature and disturbing news articles that have been published in an alternate dimension.