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"The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport, Idaho, today, and on a spaceship bound for a distant exoplanet decades from now, an ancient text provides solace and the most profound human connection to characters in peril. They all learn the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly...
8) Don't blink!
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
53 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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"A page turns every time you blink, bringing you closer to the end of the book--and bedtime"--
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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We all know kids who carry a book everywhere they go. Kids who can't stop reading, even if it's long after bedtime. Kids who love nothing more than sitting quietly in the corner, turning page after page...
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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When her favorite book is returned to the library instead of renewed, Olivia painstakingly combs the library's shelves in the hope of reclaiming the book before someone else checks it out.
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Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
316 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"Orner reads?and writes?everywhere he finds himself: a hospital cafeteria, a coffee shop in Albania, or a crowded bus in Haiti. The result is “a book of unlearned meditations that stumbles into memoir.” Among the many writers Orner addresses are Isaac Babel and Zora Neale Hurston, both of whom told their truths and were silenced; Franz Kafka, who professed loneliness but craved connection; Robert Walser, who spent the last twenty-three years of...
13) The reader
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Publisher
Amazon Children's Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
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A boy and his dog hike to the top of a very tall, snowy hill where they play, enjoy a snack, and then share their favorite book before sledding home.
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Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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Otto lives in a book in a house but when no one is looking he comes to life to read his favorite stories and practice his writing, until he is left behind and must set out in search of a new home.
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Series
Young Amelia Bedelia (Picture books) volume 6
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2013
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32
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
335 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
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When Nina Sankovitch's sister died at the age of forty-six, Nina turned to books for comfort, escape, and introspection. In her beloved purple chair, she rediscovered the magic of such writers as Toni Morrison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ian McEwan, Edith Wharton, and, of course, Leo Tolstoy. Through the connections Nina made with books, authors, and other readers, her life changed in unexpected ways. Tolstoy and the Purple Chair also tells the story of...
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