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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?

One night, after awakening from a terrible dream, a young boy heads out on his bike. Soon he arrives at a mysterious cave, which he feels an urge to explore. Inside, a giant, deadly worm has trapped the Librarian! Now, the boy is in danger as well.

Eine Reise voller Wunder, Mut und Magie. Eine Welt, in der Bücher und Geschichten verboten sind: für die Geschwister Robert und Rachel ist sie traurige Realität. Bis ihr Vater den beiden eines Tages das Buch der gestohlenen Träume anvertraut, das ihr Leben für immer verändert. Denn der böse Präsident Malstain ist auf der Jagd nach ebendiesem Buch und wird nicht ruhen, ehe er die Kinder gefunden hat. Ein Roman über den Zauber von Sprache – inspiriert von David Farrs jüdischen Großeltern, die vor dem Nazi-Regime nach London flohen.

Thirteen-year-old Juan’s summer is off to a terrible start. First, his parents separate. Then, almost as bad, Juan is sent away to his strange Uncle Tito’s house for the entire break! Who wants to live with an oddball recluse who has zigzag eyebrows, drinks 15 cups of smoky tea a day, and lives inside a huge, mysterious library? As Juan adjusts to his new life among teetering, dusty shelves, he notices something odd: the books move on their own! He rushes to tell Uncle Tito, who lets his nephew in on a secret: Juan is a Princeps Reader, which means books respond magically to him.

Ein schwerer Einband, ein fantastisches Leuchten und zarte Wesen, die aus Buchdeckeln herausschweben: Becky und Hugo haben das Buch der Bücher gefunden, das ihnen die magische Bücherwelt offenbart. Seit die fiese Königin dort regiert, ist nichts mehr, wie es einmal war. Beim Eintauchen in die Geschichten verspüren Becky und Hugo einen seltsamen Widerstand. Streckt die Königin ihre Finger etwa in die reale Welt aus? Und wie hängt das Buch aller Bücher mit der bedrohten Bibliothek zusammen? Antworten auf die Fragen lassen sich einzig und allein in der Bücherwelt finden.

Sunrise Elementary School had a BIG problem. Their new librarian was a real Dragon! When Miss Lotta Scales read an ad for a thick-skinned librarian with a burning love of books, she knew she was perfect for the job. After all, who could guard books better than a real dragon? She took her job seriously: hundreds of new, clean books replaced the old, smudged ones. The thought of sticky little fingers touching and clutching her precious books made her hot under the collar!

In the early 1960s, tired of reprisals for attempting to register to vote, Selma's black community began to protest. The struggle received nationwide attention when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a voting rights march in January 1965 and was attacked by a segregationist. In February, the shooting of an unarmed demonstrator by an Alabama state trooper inspired a march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery.

Have you ever used your imagination to solve a problem? When Albert Einstein was young, he was fascinated by the way magnetism made a compass work. As an adult, he used thought experiments to solve some of the universe's greatest mysteries. Einstein loved to think about math and science. He worked for a while at a patent office, but his mind wasn't focused on inventions. Instead, he thought about the universe. In 1905, Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity solved questions that scientists had grappled with for hundreds of years.