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"The life of a book isn't easy, especially when people judge you by your cover (not every book can be adorned with sparkly unicorns!). And this narrator should know--it's the book itself, and it has a lot of opinions. It gets irritated when readers bend its pages back, and it finds authors quite annoying. But it does have a story to tell. Through witty direct address and charming illustrations, readers meet a book that has never been read, with a...

Elizabeth Brown loves to read more than anything else, but when her collection of books grows and grows, she must make a change in her life.

Four short stories about four young people in different circumstances and how their lives are changed by their encounters with books.

A librarian named Mavis McGrew introduces the animals in the zoo to the joy of reading when she drives her bookmobile to the zoo by mistake.

Fish and Snail live in books, and every day Snail waits for Fish to return from his explorations of other books to hear his stories. This time is different--this time Fish wants Snail to come with him, only Snail is too comfortable in his current book to leave. This could be the end of their friendship.

Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay classes with celebrity Pastor Bob. Lucy stumbles into a moral dilemma when she finds Ian camped out in the library after...

Now thirteen, Meggie "reads" herself into Inkworld, where she, her family, and the characters in the book face chaos and danger as the original creator of the world frantically tries to redirect the story.

A young bear who is fascinated by the mysterious marks he sees on paper finds a friend when a kind woman reads to him.

Once Edward has learned to read, books and his vivid imagination provide him with great adventures.

Text bubbles and activities invite readers to make connections and draw conclusions from the story about a young boy who cannot find his favorite book at bedtime and imagines the various creatures that might have taken it from him.