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561) The well-educated mind: a guide to the classical education you never had : updated and expanded
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
510 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise. Newly expanded and updated to include standout works from the twenty-first century as well as essential readings in science (from the earliest works of Hippocrates to the discovery of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs), The Well-Educated Mind offers brief, entertaining histories of six literary genres?fiction,...
565) Olaf loves to read!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
23 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Join Olaf the librarian as he builds a castle, sorts books by color, and makes reading fun for everyone in the library.
566) The storybook knight
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Description
When Leo's mom and dad pack him off to fight a dragon, he takes a shield, a sword―and a pile of his favorite books. But can a story be as mighty as a sword?
Author
Publisher
Penzler Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Of crime fiction's many sub-genres, none is so reflexive and so intriguing as the "bibliomystery": stories that involve crimes set, somehow, in the world of books. With fourteen tales of bibliophilic transgression from the Golden Age of the mystery genre(the decades between the two World Wars), this volume collects stories guaranteed to entertain, featuring work from well-remembered authors such as Cornell Woolrich and Anthony Boucher and from those...
568) Ronan the librarian
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 x 23 cm
Description
Ronan was a mighty barbarian. He invaded. He raided. And back home, he traded. He always found the greatest treasures. Until one day, Ronan found something no barbarian wants: A BOOK. At first, his fellow barbarians are skeptical of his newfound passion for reading, but in the end, even they aren't immune to the charms of a good book.
569) The book boat's in
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
32 col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
On a book boat on the Erie Canal in the 1800s, Jessie spots a used copy of The Swiss Family Robinson, then works very hard all week to earn the money he needs to buy it. Includes historical note.
570) Vamos! Let's go read
Author
Series
Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
"Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival the Guadalupian Library hosts every year! Everyone has a special book they're looking for, but there's so much to see and do first. From cookbook demonstrations and comics workshops to mask making and language classes, this library has something for everyone. Can Little Lobo, Bernab�e, Kooky Dooky, Coco Rocho, and La Chida each find the book of their dreams?"--
Author
Publisher
Minerva
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Description
"A child busy reading in a treehouse spots a family who seems to have just arrived on Earth for a picnic. The youngest member of the alien family holds a mind-bendingly strange object. Could it be a book from outer space?"--
572) Spellbound
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
293 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Eleven-year-old Olive finds herself drawn to the grimoire of the witches who built her house and tries to use its spells to uncover the house's magic and control the cats themselves, but the book is more wicked than it seems.
573) Parked: a novel
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Newly homeless Jeanne Ann and wealthy Cal form a vital friendship as they both search for stability and community, finding it through love of books, art, and food"--
Author
Publisher
Viking Adult
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Description
The best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran presents an impassioned tribute to the importance of fiction to democracy that blends memoir with close readings of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Babbitt and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.
"A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to change people's lives, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy...
575) Arthur: Season 10
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 260 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Arthur and his friends encounter the joys and difficulties that all kids experience. From keeping secrets to going to the hospital, Arthur manages to handle each situation with imagination, kindness and humor.
Author
Series
Forest friends volume 3
Publisher
Museyon
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Description
Yuka, a first grader, loves when her mom reads to her. But since the birth of her younger brother, mom is too busy to read to Yuka. One day, while Yuka is alone in the forest reading a book out loud, a squirrel, a rabbit, a fox, a raccoon, and more animals come to listen to Yuka's story. They enjoy it very much and ask her to tell them more stories. As she chooses and reads stories to the animals, Yuka is inspired by the world of reading aloud, and...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xxix, 351 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Since its first publication in 1982, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations and improving their language skills. It has also been a staple in schools of education for new teachers. This updated edition of The Read-Aloud Handbook discusses the benefits, the rewards, and the importance of reading aloud to children of a new generation....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Phyllis Rose embarks on a grand literary experiment--to read her way through a random shelf of library books, LEQ-LES. Can you have an Extreme Adventure in a library? Phyllis Rose casts herself into the wilds of an Upper East Side lending library in an effort to do just that. Hoping to explore the "real ground of literature," she reads her way through a somewhat randomly chosen shelf of fiction, from LEQ to LES. The shelf has everything Rose could...
580) The spy's secret
Author
Series
Key hunters volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
99 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
In their second trip through the enchanted library, Cleo and Evan find themselves in a spy story, where they must stop a traitor named Viper--and they find themselves working with the mysterious replacement librarian, Ms. Crowley.
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