books and reading

With the sixth and final relic almost within his grasp, Luke learns something unexpected about the author who has been helping him in his quest to return with his terrified parents to his own world, presenting a dilemma that is not helped by a witch causing havoc in the neighborhood.

Bored with another normal, inky evening, bats discover an open library window and fly in to enjoy the photocopier, water fountain, and especially the books and stories found there.

"Merrilee Campbell, 16, thinks boys are better in books, chivalry is dead, and there'd be nothing more romantic than having just one guy woo her like the heroes in classic stories. She's about to get the chance to test these daydreams when she, her best friend, Eliza, and her younger sister, Rory, transfer into Reginald R. Hero High, where all their fantasies come true--often with surprising consequences"--Provided by publisher.

A young rabbit checks out a library book about wolves and learns much more about their behavior than he wanted to know.

"After defeating her Uncle Geryon, Alice faces the collective might of all the Old Readers and, in order to save the magic creatures she promised to help, must go on a quest to find a force strong enough to overturn the Old Readers once and for all"--Provided by publisher.

Guillermo meets a new friend and together they have incredible adventures through books.

When evil Dr. Glockenspiel threatens all the books in the world, only one person can stop him--a book-wielding, super-secret operative called Lyric McKerrigan.

Sefia knows what it means to survive. After her father is brutally murdered, she flees into the wilderness with her aunt Nin, who teaches her to hunt, track, and steal. But when Nin is kidnapped, leaving Sefia completely alone, none of her survival skills can help her discover where Nins been taken, or if shes even alive. The only clue to both her aunt's disappearance and her father's murder is the odd rectangular object her father left behind, an object she comes to realize is a book--a marvelous item unheard of in her otherwise illiterate society. With the help of this book, and the aid of a mysterious stranger with dark secrets of his own, Sefia sets out to rescue her aunt and find out what really happened the day her father was killed--and punish the people responsible.

This volume contains descriptions of more than 1200 books published in 2004 in nine fiction genres, including author or editor's name, publication information, story type, major characters, setting, plot summary, and more.

This volume contains descriptions of 1,264 books in nine fiction genres, including author or editor's name, publication information, story type, major characters, setting, plot summary, and more.