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....

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!

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

The Bad Seed is in a good mood…for once. That’s because there’s a really cool book at the library available for checkout. The Bad Seed reads, and reads, until the book can’t be read anymore.

The Rylance family is stuck. Dad's got writer's block. Ethan promised to illustrate a group project at school - even though he can't draw. Sarah's still pining for a puppy. And they all miss Mom. Much more than they can say. Enter Inkling. Inkling begins life in Mr. Rylance's sketchbook....

Luigi has a knack for games and puzzles. But sometimes it feels like the cards are stacked against him. UNTIL a carnival arrives in town and Luigi gets the CHANCE OF A LIFETIME—the opportunity to work for the world-famous Professor Marvelmous—a barker who puts the SHOW in SHOWMAN....

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

When Donovan left his copy of The Adventurers on the kitchen counter, he didn't think his mom would read it—much less have a problem with it....

Mr. Lemoncello's ENTIRE game-making empire is up for grabs!

For Alice, danger threatens from inside the library as well as out. Having figured out the role her master and uncle, Geryon, played in her father's disappearance, Alice turns to Ending - the mysterious, magical giant feline and guardian of Geryon's library....

Have you ever wondered how fast a T-Rex could really run, or how much a Triceratops weighed? How about how long a Brachiosaurus’s neck is, or how high a Velociraptor could jump? This audiobook has all of these answers and more....

From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo and two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall comes a fantastical meditation on fate, love, and the power of words to spell the world....

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....

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....

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....

A boy is imprisoned by a witch and must tell her a new scary story each night to stay alive. This thrilling contemporary fantasy from J. A. White, the acclaimed author of the Thickety series, brings to life the magic and craft of storytelling....

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....

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?

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 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?

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?

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?

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?

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.

Author Lindsay Leslie puts the listener in charge as the architect of a fantastical library in this imaginative book celebrating libraries and the joys of reading.

Ancient treasures are kept safe within the mighty Heroes Hold. But the fierce Beast has somehow slipped inside. It's on the hunt for Heroes, a book containing the power of all heroes from all stories. Can the Librarian and his helpers make sure the mighty book is never checked out?

Celia loves to explore, and is thrilled when she finds an old library in the woods. But Celia discovers more than just books at the library—and she can’t wait to book it out of there! Will Celia get out of the library alive?

It’s a dark and stormy night, perfect for ghost stories. But not all tales are fiction when a girl recognizes the strange events at her aunt’s house. They’re unfolding exactly like a scary story she read when she was little. Can the mighty Librarian help solve this riddle before it’s too late?

The Puzzler, a cunning enemy of the Library of Doom, has caught a group of students in his latest trap. Now, the kids must navigate a mazelike park full of tricky riddles and twisted storybook creatures. Will they be lost forever, or can the Librarian help them escape the fairy tale terror?