Owen is trapped in a time travel plot-your-own-adventure book, controlled by the reader, and a bizarre fellow prisoner, Kara Dox, might be his only hope for escaping to save Bethany.
"Rob Burnside is visited by an especially strange closet creature: the Cat in the Hat mashed with Gollum from The Lord of the Rings"--Provided by publisher.
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.
Piggie realizes that she and Gerald the elephant are in a book and that she can make the reader say words, but when Gerald comes to understand the danger of the book ending, Piggie comes up with a solution to get the reader to keep reading.
Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.
Miss Lotta Scales is a dragon who believes her job is to protect the school's library books from the children, but hwen she finally realizes that books are meant to be read, the dragon turns into Miss Lotty, librarian and storyteller.
An anthology of poems about the joys of books and reading. Includes selections by David McCord, Karla Kuskin, Myra Cohn Livingston, and Jack Prelutsky.
