books and reading

Polly and her friend Bed Rabbit have lots of books, but they don't know how to read, so Polly's parents interrupt their own reading for a bedtime story.

Although she lives in a house full of avid readers, Meena hates books--until she discovers the magic inside 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.

After a stranger gives an ancient book to unpopular, twelve-year-old Verity Gallant, she and her new-found friends, Henry and Martha, uncover secrets stirring in the harbor town of Wellow and use them to face a powerful, vengeful witch.

Presents lists of recommended book titles in more than 120 categories, including adoption, building blocks, civil rights, friends, fairy tales, marriage, poetry, siblings, opera, and many others.

Presents lists of recommended book titles in more than 175 categories, including aging, bicycling, Elvis, humor, mothers and daughters, presidential biographies, sports and games, Western fiction, and many others.

When fourteen-year-old Kate and her twelve-year-old genius-uncle George are transferred to a magnet school for the gifted, they quickly discover that everything is amiss and danger lurks in unexpected places.

In 1945 Spain, the young son of an antique-book dealer searches for more books by Juli?n Carax, an author he has recently discovered, and finds that everything Carax has ever written has been destroyed--and that his search has put his friends and family in danger.

Famous American entertainers, authors, and political and sports figures recall their favorite childhood reading.

Brief text and color photographs show that reading is necessary everywhere, from books to labels on cans to directions to games to grocery stores to subway signs.