books and reading

Post-worldquake, when electricity is infrequent and the Internet is extinct, but magic is flourishing, five students at the Tusitala School for the Gifted, Troubled and Strange pool their resources and magical abilities to defeat an evil publisher who intends to use the power bound up in books to destroy the universe.

Effie and her school friends are pulled in different directions but must find a way to reconnect if they are to stop the Diberi from destroying the worlds.

Milly loves Minty's Bookshop, but soon after she notices that everything there is getting old and creaky, including Mrs. Minty, the store closes unexpectedly, leaving Milly worried and sad.

Feeling lonely and out of place after her family moves to a new town, eleven-year-old Fiona Crane ventures to the local library, where she finds a gripping mystery novel about a small town, family secrets, and a tragic disappearance.

A voracious young reader pens a love letter to libraries and books, and powerfully expresses the need for diversity and the importance of representation in stories.

A humorous interactive story about a book that does not want to be read and will do just about anything it can to make you give up and put it down.

"When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board"--OCLC.

"A shy girl who feels most at home in the school library gains the courage to extend herself to others when she encounters a group of unique, diverse, inspiring women at the diner where her mother works"--Provided by publisher.

"A shy girl who feels most at home in the school library gains the courage to extend herself to others when she encounters a group of unique, diverse, inspiring women at the diner where her mother works"--Provided by the publisher.

Three mice guide readers on quest for a fun reading experience, with a reluctant Bruce as the star.