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Our Incredible Library Book and the Wonderful Journeys It Took
by Caroline Crowe
This celebration of reading and libraries tells the extraordinary story of one special library book's journey from the hands of child to child, finding it a little more worn each time it's returned to the library, but a lot more loved by all the children who've borrowed it.
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Benita and the Night Creatures
by Mariana Llanos
Benita loves to read in bed but keeps getting interrupted by a whistling Tunche, a scary Supay and other spooky creatures from Peruvian lore. To the creatures’ disbelief, Benita is so absorbed by her book that she’s not the least bit scared of them. This humorous celebration of bedtime reading puts a global twist on taking the “scary” out of monsters.
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Shhh! I'm Reading!
by John Kelly
A little girl who is reading the best book ever gets continually interrupted during exciting parts of the story by an adventurous pirate captain and a performing penguin who do not quite realize how much fun reading can be.
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The Story Collector
by Kristin O'Donnell Tubb
A story based on the author's childhood introduces 11-year-old Viviani Joffrey Fedeler, who lives in the New York Public Library and decides to play a Halloween prank on a girl who teases Viviani for believing in ghosts.
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Nightbooks
by J. A White
A young boy is imprisoned by a witch in a New York apartment and must tell her a new scary story each night in order to stay alive.
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Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
by Chris Grabenstein
Twelve-year-old Kyle wins a coveted spot to be one of 12 children chosen to stay in the new town library--designed by his hero, the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello--for an overnight of fun, food and games, but in the morning, the kids find all the doors still locked and must work together to solve secret puzzles in order to discover the hidden escape route.
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Book Scavenger
by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Delightedly moving to San Francisco, 12-year-old Emily longs to meet a favorite author who lives nearby and who is savagely attacked just before the release of his latest online puzzle series. A first novel. Simultaneous eBook.
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Lola Loves Stories
by Anna McQuinn
Lola loves to hear her father read a new library book each night, an activity that spurs her imagination and results in inventive play the next day.
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Amazing Grace
by Mary Hoffman
Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do
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Just Read!
by Lori Degman
Rhyming text celebrates reading in its many forms as it follows a diverse group of children who read wherever and whenever they can
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Because of Winn-Dixie
by Kate DiCamillo
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie
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