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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
English edition.
Language
English
Description
"Myne throws everything she has at paper-making while helping at the gate and preparing for Tuuli's baptism. She tries weaving faux-papyrus from fibers during winter and forming clay tablets during the spring, but both fail. Still, her love for books isn't so weak that she'd give up that easily. It's time to think up a Plan C! This is a bibliofantasy for all the bookworms of the world!"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First Random House edition.
Language
English
Description
This bilingual book presents parents sharing books with their children; includes questions to prompt interaction with the story.
Este libro bilingüe presenta a los padres compartir libros con sus hijos; incluye preguntas para provocar la interacción con la historia.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A certain college girl who's loved books ever since she was a little girl dies in an accident and is reborn in another world she knows nothing about. She is now Myne, the sickly five-year-old daughter of a poor soldier. To make things worse, the world she's been reborn in has a very low literacy rate and books mostly don't exist. She'd have to pay an enormous amounts of money to buy one. Myne resolves herself: If there aren't any books, she'll just...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Myne tells Lutz the truth about herself. He gets mad and confused, but in the end accepts Myne, with whom he has spent the past year making paper and such with. They successfully complete the paper and get accepted by Benno. They go to the Merchant's Guild to register so they can sell paper, where they are asked to make hairpins for the guildmaster's granddaughter. And so, they go to meet the girl herself, to ask how she would like her hairpins to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Library edition ; unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Stink and his friends keep busy, working on zombie costumes and racking up points for the race to One Million Minutes of Reading. With all that talk about the undead, Stink starts to wonder. Is he being hunted by zombies?
770) Book of storms
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Pablo, twelve, and his younger brother Alex find a book on extreme weather, only to discover the book does not just discribe weather, it creates it--and only the Librarian can control the book's power.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
English edition.
Language
English
Description
"As time goes on, Myne slowly gets more and more used to life in the temple. She learns to speak like a noble and is allowed to live in the orphanage director's chambers. She even successfully breaks the ice with Fran! Gil, her once troublesome attendant,cleans her new chambers as ordered and learns to love being rewarded for his hard work. As for Delia, well..."--
772) The magician's hat
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Super Bowl champion and literacy crusader Malcolm Mitchell presents the story of a magician who reveals an awe-inspiring treasure from his bag of tricks -- books that make every kid's dream come true! This is not your typical afternoon at the library -- a magician invites kids to reach into his hat to pull out whatever they find when they dig down deep. Soon -- poof! -- each child comes away with something better than they could've imagined -- a book...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Myne narrowly escapes death thanks to a magic tool, but is told that she only has one year left to live at most. She decides to spend her remaining time with her family, concluding that she would rather die with them than sign her life away to a noble. Meanwhile, Lutz fights back against his parents, steeling his resolve to become a merchant no matter what. Together, they plan to continue making paper up until their baptism ceremony, but are soon...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
English edition.
Language
English
Description
"It has been a year since our hero was reborn into a new world in the body of Myne, a sickly little girl from a poor family. She's been doing her best to fulfill her dream of making books, but her plans have been foiled at every turn. But now Myne has a deal with Benno the merchant: With her friend Lutz's help, she will make a paper prototype that he can sell in his shop. In exchange, he will take her and Lutz on as apprentices. But making the prototype...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
English edition.
Language
English
Description
"Myne makes progress with her book-making endeavors, all so that she can read them herself. Her sickness turns out to be the Devouring after all, and she learns that curing herself will cost a lot of money. She ultimately decides to keep living as she has been thus far, selling her knowledge from her past life to make money. But despite her enthusiasm, the Devouring eats away at her more by the day, until she ends up collapsing in the middle of a...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Aspiring apprentice merchants Myne and Lutz have signed a contract with Benno, who has promised to sell their plant-based prototype. With his assistance, they finally have the materials and tools to start making their first batch of washi paper! And Benno wants to sell not only paper, but Myne's other inventions, such as the flower hairpins, as well. But getting involved in the world of merchants makes Myne's life more complicated than ever as she...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
English edition.
Language
English
Description
"Now acting as the orphanage director, Myne starts on her mission to save the temple's orphans--an endeavor that earns her a great deal of respect from the children whose lives she works to improve. She cleans up the orphanage, teaches the orphans to provide for themselves, and even gives them an opportunity to enjoy the Star Festival for the very first time! However, just before the taue-throwing begins, Myne makes a discovery that could play a crucial...
Author
Series
Treehouse books volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Andy and Terry's incredible, ever-expanding treehouse has thirteen new storeys, including a watermelon-smashing level, a wave machine, a life-size snakes and ladders game (with real ladders and real snakes), a rocket-powered carrot-launcher, a Ninja Snail Training Academy and a high-tech detective agency with all the latest high-tech detective technology, which is lucky because they have a BIG mystery to solve; where is Mr. Big Nose???
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Myne successfully negotiates with the temple to become an apprentice blue shrine maiden, ensuring she will receive the same treatment as a noble. Her work there begins, and after such a long wait, she can finally read in the book room! But the temple's status-based structure and her problematic attendants mean she doesn't have it easy: she'll need to beat society to enjoy her books in peace! This is a biblio-fantasy by book lovers, for book lovers!...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Spanish.
Language
Español
Description
"De pronto, Lisa vio que uno de los libros del estante casi relucía. Manual para superhéroes, se leía en el lomo. Era como si el libro le hablara directamente a ella y le pidiera que lo sacara de allí y se pusiera a hojearlo" Lisa no está a gusto en el nuevo colegio. Unos chicos la acosan, y ella se refugia en la biblioteca a diario para escapar. Un día encuentra un libro que describe cómo entrenar 101 poderes para convertirse en superhéroe....
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