A young librarian rides a pack horse through the mountains to deliver books to children in Appalachia during the Great Depression. Includes historical note on the packhorse library project.

When Alcatraz and Grandpa Smedry make a pilgrimage to the Free Kingdom city of Crystallia, they are shocked to find the city under seige by the Evil Librarians--led by Alcatraz's own mother.

When twelve-year-old do-gooder Victor Spoil gets a job at the library, he uncovers a plot by the librarians to hypnotize all the adults of the world.

When superhero Ellie does not qualify for the school spelling bee she is disappointed, but willing to help her best friend Hannah study instead--but Hannah and the other children are starting to act rather strange, and Ellie is convinced that there is something sinister about the substitute librarian, Mrs. Bumble, who seems to have an awful lot of bees following her around.

"When a mysterious little free library (guarded by a large orange cat) appears overnight in the small town of Martinville, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change. Evan and his best friend Rafe quickly discover a link between one of the old books and a long-ago event that none of the grown-ups want to talk about. The two boys start asking questions whose answers will transform...