In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road.
Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly...

Elizabeth Brown loves to read more than anything else, but when her collection of books grows and grows, she must make a change in her life.

Two friends, Redd and Bloo argue over the possession of one special book with a green cover, hard cover, a nice spine, and pages turn from right to left--but unite when Bookworm walks off with it.

Animals drawn by an illustrator for a book try to figure out where they really belong.

Bored with another normal, inky evening, bats discover an open library window and fly in to enjoy the photocopier, water fountain, and especially the books and stories found there.

Her magical book of stories is wordless until a whisper in the wind tells a little girl to imagine a story for each page.

Investigative reporter Dirk Bones sets out to discover who is stealing books in the town of Ghostly.