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Miss Lotta Scales is a dragon who believes her job is to protect the school's library books from the children, but when she finally realizes that books are meant to be read, the dragon turns into Miss Lotty, librarian and storyteller.

Every Tuesday Lola and her mother visit their local library to return and check out books, attend story readings, and share a special treat.

Humphrey the classroom hamster has adventures going to the library, learning about the ocean, and sailing across a pond on a sailboat.

When their mother starts dropping them off at the library severall afternoons a week, nine-year-old William and his brother dread boredom and the overbearing librarian, but they are surprised at how things turned out.

The literal-minded housekeeper causes chaos at her local library when she stops by to help the librarian.

Sam, the shy mouse that lives in the library and likes to write books, collaborates with a boy in the library's Authors and Illustrators Club.

One summer day in 1959, nine-year-old Ron McNair, who dreams of becoming a pilot, walks into the Lake City, South Carolina, public library and insists on checking out some books, despite the rule that only white people can have library cards.

When Sarah, an explorer mouse, meets Sam, she gives him the courage to finally climb to the highest library shelves--and beyond--and he shows her how to explore the world through reading.

Illustrations and brief text present all kinds of libraries, from bookmobiles and home libraries to the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress.

Buddy the dog discovers a strange, blue-tongued creature in the school library, and investigates what it is and how it got there.

Budding-inventor Millicent Madding launches her latest invention to disastrous results, and she has only days to create an antidote before the local bullies wreak havoc and her dearest friendships are destroyed forever.

With a swimming medal, the key to a mansion, and a comic book about a half-man/half-rat as her only clues, a twelve-year-old girl seeks the true story of her father's mysterious death four years earlier near an island in the Pacific Northwest.

Presents the story of Alia, a librarian who lives and works in Basra, and her desperate attempt to save the books in the central library at the start of the Iraqi War in 2003.

Collection of over 150 poems about libraries, librarians, patrons, friends of the library, and books written by a twenty-year veteran of the library profession.

A brief history of the Library of Congress describing its role in disseminating information and in collecting, cataloging, and preserving books and other related materials.