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Join the free-for-all fun at the public library with these book-loving bats! Shape shadows on the walls, frolic in the water fountain, and roam the book-filled halls untilit's time for everyine, youung and old, to settle down into the enchantment of stortime. -- back cover.
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The rules of summer book club are simple: No sad books. No pressure. Yes, wine! Besties Laurel and Paris are excited to welcome Cassie to the group. This year, the book club is all about fill-your-heart reads. Since Laurel's divorce, she feels like the Worst Mom Ever. Cassie has an unfortunate habit of falling for ridiculous man-boys. Paris is still reeling after chasing off the only man brave and foolish enough to marry her. Inspired by the heroines...
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Rocket loves books and he wants to make his own, but he can't think of a story. Encouraged by the little yellow bird to look closely at the world around him for inspiration, Rocket sets out on a journey. Along the way he discovers small details that he has never noticed before, a timid baby owl who becomes his friend, and an idea for a story.
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"In this book with no pictures, the reader has to say every silly word, no matter what"--
This children's book with no pictures introduces young children to the idea that the written word can be a source of mischief and delight.--From publisher description.
7) The whisper
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Her magical book of stories is wordless until a whisper in the wind tells a little girl to imagine a story for each page.
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""There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies--I mean books--that were written for one person only ... A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that's how I sell books." Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes...
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The day Gracie loses her favorite book, Elephant finds it. He sniffs the words ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS and--oops--they go up his trunk, where they wiggle and jiggle and make him sneeze. The letters fly through the air helter skelter, and when Elephant tries to put them back together, he can't figure out how to make the right words that fit. He asks his friends for help, but they just choose some of the letters to make up their own words--Alligator...
10) The reader
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"Set in a world where reading is unheard-of, Sefia makes use of a mysterious object to track down who kidnapped her aunt Nin and what really happened the night her father was murdered"--Provided by publisher.
11) The losers club
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Sixth grader Alec can't put a good book down. So when Principal Vance lays down the law -- pay attention in class, or else -- Alec takes action. He can't lose all his reading time, so he starts a club. A club he intends to be the only member of. After all, reading isn't a team sport, and no one would want to join something called the Losers Club, right? But as more and more kids find their way to Alec's club -- including his ex-friend turned bully...
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"All her life, Zofia has found comfort in two things: books and her best friend, Janina. But no one could have imagined the horrors of the Nazi occupation in Warsaw. As the bombs rain down and Hitler's forces loot and destroy the city, Zofia finds that now books are also in need of saving. With the death count rising, Zofia jumps to action to save her friend and salvage whatever books she can from the wreckage, hiding them away and even starting a...
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Stink Moody volume 7
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Stink and his friends try to earn money to buy the latest book in the Nightmare on Zombie Street series and go to the book release party.
14) Small spaces
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Small spaces quartet volume 1
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"After eleven-year-old Ollie's school bus mysteriously breaks down on a field trip, she has to take a trip through scary woods, and must use all of her wits to survive. She must stick to small spaces."
15) Our library
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A raccoon and his friends go to great lengths to make sure they will always have a library from which to borrow books.
17) B is for books!
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Oscar's pet worm Slimey describes some of the many subjects that can be found in books.
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Lola books (Anna McQuinn) volume 3
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Lola reads story books to her new baby brother Leo, and even though Mommy and Daddy are busy, they still have time to read to Lola at bedtime.
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Meet Henley, an all-around good kid, who hates to read. When he's supposed to be reading, he would rather do anything else. But one day, he gets the scariest homework assignment in the world: find your favorite book to share with the class tomorrow.
What's a kid to do? How can Henley find a story that speaks to everything inside of him?
Malcolm Mitchell, best-selling author of The Magician's Hat, pulls from his own literary triumph to deliver another...