Washoe County Library System

Clara Evans is horrified when she discovers her principals “prohibited media” hit list. The iconic books on the list have been pulled from the library and arent allowed anywhere on the schools premises. Students caught with the contraband will be sternly punished.Many of these stories have changed Claras life, so shes not going to sit back and watch while her draconian principal abuses his power. Shes going to strike back.So Clara starts an underground...

Two readers compare a print to digital media, and learn books are still valuable.

When Sheriff Hardy investigates the source of a brilliant light and shiny slime afflicting Riverbend, he finds that the village is becoming part of a child's coloring book streaked with greasy crayons.

"Two girls on opposite sides of the planet connect through a mysterious book, whose phantom narrator guides them into spinning a story about the past that will affect their futures"--Provided by publisher.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal that a book can be used for everything from keeping a table steady to catching a fairy in midair.

When Nick decides to teach his cats to read, Verne is very much interested, especially in books about mice and fish, but Stevenson wants nothing to do with the project--or does he?

In a distant future where Libyrarians preserve and protect the ancient books that are housed in the fortress-like Libyrinth, Haly is imprisoned by Eradicants, who believe that the written word is evil, and she must try to mend the rift between the two groups before their war for knowledge destroys them all.

Books can be true and not true and sometimes they can be both at the same time. A book belongs in a library, on a bookshelf, in a bookshop, in your house. A story belongs wherever a story belongs. If it's Sunday and raining, a book is the perfect thing. Even a small book, because boredom can be very big.

An eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever in this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love.

When Cameron and his best friends are magically transported through the pages of an ancestral book to the fabled West African country Chidani, they find a kingdom in extreme danger and have to find a way to save the Igbo people.