Books & Libraries

Imagine it were possible to bring the characters from a book to life....

Kyle Keeley is the class clown, popular with most kids, (if not the teachers), and an ardent fan of all games: board games, word games, and particularly video games....

Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of Inkheart, the book whose characters became real....

When Brystal Evergreen stumbles across a secret section of the library, she discovers a book that introduces her to a world beyond her imagination and learns the impossible: She is a fairy capable of magic! But in the Southern Kingdom, women are forbidden to read and magic is outlawed....

On the day they are born, every Swift child is brought before the sacred Family Dictionary. They are given a name, and a definition. A definition it is assumed they will grow up to match....

Tilly and her best friend Oskar are bookwanderers: a remarkable group of people who, using the magical power of books, can travel inside any story they choose. But on a wintry visit to Paris, the friends wander inside a book of fairy tales to find that peculiar things are happening....

Best-selling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle-grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classic....

Since her mother's disappearance, 11-year-old Tilly Pages has found comfort in the stories at Pages & Co., her grandparents' bookshop. But when her favorite characters, Anne of Green Gables and Alice from Wonderland, start showing up at the shop, Tilly's adventures become very real....

Jimmy loves reading so much that he's inspired to start a book company for kids -- run by kids. It's a big dream for a twelve-year-old boy. Some would even say it's laugh-out-loud ridiculous....

Welcome, boys and girls, listeners of all ages, to the first-ever Library Olympics! Kyle and his teammates are back, and the world-famous game maker Luigi Lemoncello is at it again!

Alice always thought fairy tales had happy endings. That - along with everything else - changed the day she met her first fairy....

An inspiring tale of a fourth grader who fights back when her favorite book is banned from the school library - by starting her own illegal locker library....

Everyone's favorite game maker, Mr. Lemoncello, is testing out his new Fabulous Fact-Finding Frenzy game....

Owen Conners' whole life changed the day he found out his classmate Bethany was half fictional and could take him into any book in the library. Which story would they jump into next? Find out....

When 11-year-old Langston's mother dies in 1946, he and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago's brown belt. It's lonely, and Langston is bullied at school. But his new home has one fantastic thing: a public library that welcomes everyone....

Five years have passed since the events of Inkdeath. At last, peace reigns in Ombra where Meggie, Mo, Dustfinger, and all the other residents lead a happy, carefree life. But it has been a different story for Orpheus....

Hello! I'm a book! I can say with all modesty that The Book That No One Wanted To Read might be the most important book of all time. Why? Because it’s the first book to have been written by a book....

Polly loves words. And she loves writing stories. So when a magic book that can make everything she writes happen in real life appears on her doorstep, Polly is certain all of her dreams are about to come true....

When Milo, Tilly, Oskar, and Alessia venture into Arthurian legend to find the first bookwanderer—the wizard Merlin—they discover that the magic of bookwandering is not at all what they thought....

Being able to jump into books used to seem like the greatest thing in the world to Owen Conners. But now Owen's trapped in a time travel book....

Back at the Winterhouse hotel, Elizabeth and Freddy dig deeper into the mystery surrounding Riley S. Granger, a guest who left behind odd artifacts - one being a magical book that the evil Gracella Winters once attempted to use to gain destructive power over the entire Falls lineage....

What if your favorite characters came to life? Billy’s spending the summer in a lakeside cabin that belongs to the mysterious Dr. Libris. But something strange is going on. Besides the security cameras everywhere, there’s Dr. Libris’s private bookcase....

When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil’s Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must be a mistake. But then when he and his friends discover what the missing words are, he's outraged....

Orphan Elizabeth Somers’ malevolent aunt and uncle ship her off to the ominous Winterhouse Hotel, owned by the peculiar Norbridge Falls....

Do you need help learning addition? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! Learning doesn’t need to be boring, so we took the boring out and threw the fun in it....

Fred's emotions have gone to the dogs! Fred's teacher and Luisa might be excited about their research trip to the library, but Fred is not. In fact, the whole project—and his continued failures at it—are making him angry! That is, until he realizes he has the perfect solution to his problem: Simply write one of his "What If" poems, tap into the power of pretend, turn into Frankinschool, and voila! Project, cancelled.

Roger the chick almost never gets the chance to do things on his own—he is always attached to his mother, Olive the hen, who prefers quiet naps to any kind of excitement. They even get borrowed together as Book Buddies at the library. But what Roger really wants is the chance for adventure. To make his little sister happy, eight-year-old Liam agrees to borrow Olive and Roger and bring them to the airport to pick up Grandpa. But when Liam is busy trying to show Grandpa he isn’t a little kid anymore, he loses track of Roger, who gets left behind at the airport.

Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival that 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 La Chida each find the book of their dreams?

A boy discovers a book all about extreme weather lying in his driveway. He begins to browse the section on rainstorms. Suddenly clouds roll in and rain pours out. But some unexpected showers are nothing compared to when the boy’s little brother takes a peek at the tornado chapter! As terrible twisters touch down, the brothers will need help from the mighty Librarian to calm the book’s curse and bring back blue skies.

A girl can’t stop saying the same word over and over again. “Teacup, teacup, teacup,” she says. Repeated words also fill the halls at school. “Phone, phone, phone.” “Glue, glue, glue.” The building has been invaded by… wordworms! The wriggling creepy-crawlies feed off mental energy, causing their hosts to get stuck on a single word. Can the powerful Librarian exterminate the pesky parasites before they drain brains and zombify all the students?

A boy finds a strange book hidden away in an antique dresser. When he opens it, ancient symbols swirl off the pages. They form a floating, inky mass. The Oldest Trick has been freed from its book! Now the ancient evil has trapped the boy in a fake, nightmarish world. Can the powerful Librarian free the boy by helping him see through the Trick’s lies?

The library is a very important place in our community! Lots of community helpers work at libraries. Listeners will learn about who works at a library, what the workers do, and what makes a library special. Simple, at-level text helps listeners learn all about libraries in the community.

A girl picks up a fallen book at her local library. Then suddenly, she’s standing in the Library of Doom! This ancient building is dangerous, and it’s not just because of the deadly books it holds....

At a comic convention, a boy picks up an issue showcasing an oozy villain named the Glob. But then the cover starts to swirl. Slime drips out. The Glob is free from the pages of the comic book, and it’s hungry! This looks like a job for the greatest hero of all . . . the Librarian!

A boy is researching animals in the library. Most of the books are boring, but one is very lively . . . and hungry. Now the boy has been gobbled up! Can he team up with the powerful Librarian and escape the belly of the beastly book?

The Wing Warriors work for the Library of Doom, circling the world in a floating fortress as they search for dangerous books. But when a new book is brought aboard, monsters come flying after it. Can the Warriors and the mighty Librarian keep the gargoyle horde from getting their claws on the book's deadly pages?

When a young girl visits her favorite bookshop one rainy day, something isn’t right. The building is dark and cold. Rats skitter past the door. Soft chewing and scratching sounds echo up from the basement. Can the mighty Librarian help the girl defeat the horrors lurking within the bookshop?

Strange, towering creatures are crashing through the woods. They are travel books, and they will snap down and crush anything between their covers. When they stomp toward a group of young campers, it’ll be up to the mighty Librarian to bring the books’ destructive journey to a close.

Students at a secret school are training to become Pages, helpers in the dangerous Library of Doom. But an enemy has snuck into the class with a wicked assignment: Destroy the school and all its knowledge. Will help from the powerful Librarian and some unlikely friends be enough to stop the traitor?

Landon's favorite place in the whole world is The Bookworm Bookstore. But when he discovers a bunch of real bookworms, things get weird and wild—and a little scary! What are the bookworms hiding? Dig in to unearth the truth in this early chapter book.