books and reading

"When best friends Lucy, Elena, and Michael receive their summer reading list, they are excited to see 'To Kill A Mockingbird' included. But not everyone in their class shares the same enthusiasm. So they hatch a plot to get the entire town talking about the well-known Harper Lee classic"--Provided by publisher.

Kelsey is the best reader in her third grade class, and she is determined to lead her class to victory in the all-school reading contest.

A collection of essays about what technology is doing to change the book as known in the early twenty-first century, and how, according to the author, this change will hurt society.

Max Spencer is an underachiever but when a carnivorous unicorn, Princess the Destroyer, and an evil wizard, Rezormoor, bring him, the only one who can read the legendary Codex of Infinite Knowability, to their magical realm, he must find the courage to save himself, his friends, and the entire human race.

Twelve-year-old Max and his allies risk much as they seek to acquire the Book of Origins, an artifact of unimaginable power, in hopes of halting the ancient evil that is bringing the world to its knees.

Tommy is so lazy that his dog takes him for walks instead of the other way around, but all that changes when he gets lost inside a book.

Describes the library and librarians, their role in the community. and the service provided by them.

Popular cheerleader Indigo Blackwood, sixteen, finds her perfect life threatened when Bishop, a tattooed, leather-clad stranger, tells her the family Bible just stolen from the attic of her mother's occult shop could mean the end to all witches, including, he says, Indigo herself.

When her father is lost at sea shortly after meeting a very unusual visitor, Alice must leave her home to live with an "uncle" whose rural Pennsylvania estate includes a massive and mysterious library that holds much more than books.

When four very different small-town high school girls are forced to join a mother-daughter book club over summer vacation, they end up learning about more than just the books they read.