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Summary: "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, Bernabé, Kooky Dooky, Coco Rocho, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAUFforde, 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 FFOMallery, Susan
Summary: The rules of summer book club are simple: No sad books. No pressure. Yes, wine! Besties Laurel and Paris are excited to welcome Cassie to the group. This year, the book club is all about fill-your-heart reads. Since Laurel's divorce, she feels like the Worst Mom Ever. Cassie has an unfortunate habit of falling for ridiculous man-boys. Paris is still reeling after chasing off the only man brave...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MALFforde, 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 FFOGrabenstein, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2015
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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
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC JAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JAMNovak, B. J.
Summary: In this book with no pictures, the reader has to say every silly word, no matter what.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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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 J Series, Call number: J FIC RILCopies Available at East Bay
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 J Series, Call number: J FIC RILCopies Available at East Bay
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 RILGrabenstein, 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: 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 GRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC 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 Series, Call number: J FIC JAMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, 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
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC RILCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION RILDocherty, Helen.
Summary: The woodland animals of Burrow Down are ready for a bedtime story, but where are the books?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E DOCYolen, Jane
Summary: Told in rhyming text young dinosaurs learn to read, but only after many mishaps, like chewing their books and throwing them at the cat--but eventually they learn to respect their books, and treat them properly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Blue Sky Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC YOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE YOLBurfoot, Ella.
Summary: A young girl shares her recipe for baking the perfect book, from breaking ideas into a cup to adding periods and capital letters, with a pinch of good, a dash of bad, and carefully cut out characters mixed in.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2014
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BURLyons, Annie
Summary: London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from the growing turmoil. After a nudge from her dear friend Charles, Gertie decides to take in one of these refugees, a headstrong teenage girl named...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Obliged to borrow a book when her corgis stray into a mobile library, the Queen discovers a passion for reading, setting the palace upon its head and causing the royal head of Great Britain to question her role in the monarchy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007
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Summary: Discovering the joy of reading widely and intelligently and abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines of her role as monarch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BENLyons, Annie
Summary: London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from the growing turmoil. After a nudge from her dear friend Charles, Gertie decides to take in one of these refugees, a headstrong teenage girl named...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LYOMora, Pat
Summary: Children read aloud in various settings to celebrate of El día de los niños, or Children's Day, in this bilingual story. Includes facts about Mexico's annual celebration of children and the book fiestas that are often included.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG MORBuckley, 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 BUCUnderwood, Deborah
Summary: In this version of Sleeping Beauty, told in verse, the Princess is threatened with a curse which will start with a paper cut; devastated that all her books have been taken away, she sets out with her dog, Prince, to find the fairy who cast the curse and make her reverse it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE UNDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE UNDFforde, Jasper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002