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Adventure and adventurers Fiction Books and reading Books and reading Fiction Books and reading Juvenile fiction Characters and characteristics in literature Fiction Characters and characteristics in literature Juvenile fiction Characters in literature Fiction Magic Fiction Magic Juvenile fiction Next, Thursday (Fictitious character) FictionFforde, Jasper.
Summary: The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOFforde, Jasper.
Summary: Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to find out who drowned her husband of a month thirty-eight years ago while interacting with classic literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOBuckley, Michael
Summary: As the fairytale detectives race through the Book of Everafter searching for their baby brother, they encounter various characters including the Editor and his army of Revisers, who threaten the children with dire consequences if they continue to change the stories
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2010
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BUCFforde, Jasper.
Summary: The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC FFOFforde, Jasper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FFOFforde, Jasper.
Summary: The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FFOFforde, Jasper.
Summary: Literary sleuth Thursday Next is once again out to make the world safe for fiction in the fifth installment of Fforde's wildly popular series. Packed with word play, bizarre and entertaining subplots, and old-fashioned suspense, Thursday's newest adventure will be celebrated by fans and critics alike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOJames, Anna. (Anna Lois)
Summary: The bookwandering community is at risk when an extreme group of Librarians take over the British Underlibrary. Tilly and Oskar believe that an elusive group of bookwanderers called the Archivists may be the key to restoring balance and Tilly thinks she s discovered their whereabouts: the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers Group 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC JAMGrabenstein, Chris.
Summary: A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015
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Summary: A twelve-year-old boy, worried that his parents may divorce, discovers that an island in the middle of the lake where he is spending the summer is the testing grounds of the mysterious Dr. Libris, who may have invented a way to make the characters in books come alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRAJames, Anna (Anna Lois)
Summary: When eleven-year-old Tilly Pages joins Oskar and his family on a Christmas trip to Paris, she and her friend bookwander into the land of fairy tales, where someone--or something--is causing chaos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JAMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC JAMRiley, James
Summary: Owen is trapped in a time travel plot-your-own-adventure book, controlled by the reader, and a bizarre fellow prisoner, Kara Dox, might be his only hope for escaping to save Bethany.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RILCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RILRiley, James
Summary: Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring in your own book series. Owen knows that better than anyone, what with the real world's homework and chores. But everything changes the day Owen sees the impossible happen -- his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the library. It turns out Bethany's half-fictional and has been searching every book she can find for her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION RILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RILRiley, James
Summary: Mysteries abound as memory-erased Owen Conners, boy magician Kiel Gnomenfoot, and their half-fictional friend Bethany confront secrets, stolen memories, hidden clues, surprising twists and endings, and some very familiar faces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION RILRiley, James
Summary: After Nobody destroys the connection between fictional and nonfictional worlds, causing nonfictional people to lose their imaginations, Owen and Bethany must risk everything to save multiple realities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2018
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC RILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION RILJackson, Richard
Summary: Through illustrations and simple, rhyming text, a book invites its reader to explore fluffy, furry, or squishy objects and creatures, both real and imaginary, that are found within its pages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE JACGläser, Mechthild
Summary: "A teen girl discovers she is a book jumper--she can leap directly into books, meet the characters, and experience the world of the book"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION GLANoel, Melvina
Summary: Mama takes her two daughters to the library every summer to pick out books about Black people so they can see the struggles, strength, and hope of people who look like them. Mama's Library Summers is a moving picture book tribute to a strong Black mother, libraries, and the power of reading and of seeing oneself in books. Every summer, Mama takes her two daughters to the library to pick out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron Kids, an imprint of Abrams 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NOECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE NOEFunke, Cornelia Caroline.
Summary: When Dustfinger finds a crooked storyteller who can read him back to Inkscape, he leaves his apprentice Farid behind. Farid seeks out Meggie and the two follow him back into the enchanted book. Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of Inkheart, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC FUNHennessy, B. G. (Barbara G.)
Summary: One night, Claire and her toy unicorn, Capricorn, journey to a magical land filled with characters from fairy tales to find out what makes someone live "happy ever after."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HENAngelini, Josephine
Summary: "Ever wish you could travel inside your favorite book and become the main character? Of course you have. Everyone has. But if you ever manage to pull it off, here's a tip. Timing is everything... Take Holly for example, who after saying a spell is transported inside a fairytale called The Chronicles of Lucitopia, a magical world infested with grifter grandmas, halitosis-riddled bandits, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sungrazer Publishing LLC 2022
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC ANGBurt, Marissa.
Summary: "A deadly Enemy has threatened the future of Story--and twelve-year-old Una Fairchild is the only one who can stop his plans and save the character world from destruction"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BURFunke, Cornelia Caroline.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FUNSumner Johnson, Janet
Summary: Shailey loves bedtime until her father gets distracted by a new job, so she advertises for a replacement "Bedtime Storyteller" and finds herself interviewing her favorite fairytale characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions 2020