In an age defined by hyperconnectivity and constant stimulation, Francine Prose makes a compelling case for the solitary act of reading and the great enjoyment it brings. This book includes selections culled from Prose's previous...
Books and reading
-
Author:Prose, FrancineSummary: -
Author:O'Leary, SaraSummary:Sadie is a little girl with a big imagination. She has been a girl who lived under the sea and a boy raised by wolves. She has had adventures in wonderland and visited the world of fairytales. She whispers to the dresses in her closet...
-
Author:Barnhill, KellySummary:When Ned and his identical twin brother tumble from their raft into a raging, bewitched river, only Ned survives. Villagers are convinced the wrong boy lived. Sure enough, Ned grows up weak and slow, and stays as much as possible within...
-
Author:Bow, JamesSummary:Presenting the three titles in the Unwritten fantasy series. This series sends friends Rosemary and Peter on magical and time-travelling adventures. In The Unwritten Girl, they find themselves on a life-or-death quest to rescue Rosemary...
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami'a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library. A lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plot their escape from the...
-
Author:Kerrin, Jessica ScottSummary:When a new book arrives at the library with a secret code written inside, Derek, with the help of his friends, follows the clues from one novel to the next and makes a discovery that may help him get past a terrible loss.
- Author:Kerrin, Jessica ScottSummary:
Finalist for the Canadian Library Association's 2014 Book of the Year for Children Award Selected as a New York Public Library Book for Reading and Sharing While tracking clues from a secret code penciled in the margins of mystery...
- Author:Moriarty, JaclynSummary:
The Zing family lives in a world of misguided spell books, singular poetry, and state-of-the-art surveillance equipment. They use these things to protect the Zing Family Secret -- one so huge that it draws the family to the garden shed...
-
Author:Neff, Henry H.Summary:Twelve-year-old Max and his allies risk much as they seek to acquire the Book of Origins, an artifact of unimaginable power, in hopes of halting the ancient evil that is bringing the world to its knees.
- Author:Ozma, AliceSummary:
When Alice Ozma was in fourth grade, she and her father decided to see if he could read aloud to her for a hundred consecutive nights. On the hundredth night, they shared pancakes to celebrate, but it soon became evident that neither...
- Author:Walmsley, Ann.Summary:
For eighteen months, Ann accompanied Carol to a remote building at Collins Bay, meeting with heavily tattooed book club members without the presence of guards or security cameras. Unlike the book clubs she participated in outside of...
-
Author:Manguel, AlbertoSummary: - Author:Kerrin, Jessica ScottSummary:
The Missing Dog Is Spotted. Trevor Tower doesn’t worry about being short until he is assigned dog-walking duty with Loyola Louden, the tallest person in his class. But the dogs are a wonderful distraction, and even before Trevor and...
-
Author:Buckley, MichaelSummary: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...
- Author:Krauss, NicoleSummary:
It has been decades since Leo Leo Gursky first surrendered his heart, then wrote a book about it--at the tender age of 10--and he's been in love with the same person ever since. Leo believes his book is lost to time, but what he...
- Author:Birkerts, SvenSummary:
In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary culture? Renowned critic Sven Birkerts believes the answer is an alarming yes. In The Gutenberg Elegies, he explores the impact of technology on...
-
Author:Maclear, KyoSummary:While banished to a dusty study one day "to think things over", a boy pulls a book off a shelf and with great reluctance begins to read. As the afternoon passes, the story nabs him and carries him away. Before long, this good...
-
Author:Neff, Henry H.Summary:Young Max McDaniels battles trolls, water beasts, and other monsters in a hostile, poverty-stricken dystopian landscape profoundly transformed by the villainous Astaroth.
- Author:Moers, WalterSummary:
In this third tale of Zamonia, Optimus Yarnspinner sets off to track down a mysterious author in Bookholm. Once there he faces cold-blooded book hunters, cyclopean Fearsome Booklings, sharp-toothed Animatomes, and the Shadow King.
- Author:Shteyngart, GarySummary:
In a novel set in the near future, when a beautiful, yet cruel, woman that Lenny Abramov met in Italy says she his coming to stay with him in New York, even the tanks and soldiers stationed in the city and the ongoing war with Venezuela...
Pages
