NCW Libraries

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

"Library Fish returns in this charming picture book about the unusually literary fish learning to do what everyone around her loves--read! Library Fish is very happy in her bowl on Mr. Hughes the librarian's desk. From there, she listens to story time and watches Mr. Hughes teach children the alphabet. He says the alphabet is made of letters, letters make sounds, blending those sounds together makes words, and words make stories. Library Fish wants...

Ignoring a handwritten warning from her grandmother, Amelia reads an old book she finds in the attic, and as elements from the stories begin to come to life around her, she realizes that she may be in a spooky story of her own.

Geraldo y Cerdita descubren el placer de que los lean. Pero ¡¿qué va a pasar cuando se acabe el libro?! When Gerald the elephant and Piggie realize that they are in a book, they decide to have some fun with the reader.

¡V̕sceras! ¡Sesos! ¡Bolas de ojos! Solo queda una semana antes de que salga el nuevo libro de la serie "Una pesadilla en la calle Zombie". ¡Y seguro que Stink ser̀ el primero en la fila de la librer̕a Blue Frog para comprar el libro y unirse a la caminata "Midnight Zombie Walk" de la ciudad! Pero hasta que llegue ese d̕a, Stink y sus amigos se mantienen ocupados haciendo disfraces de zombies manchados con salsa de tomate, tratando de recaudar...

'Stories, both my own and those I've taken to heart, make up whoever it is that I've become,' Peter Orner writes in this collection of essays about reading, writing, and living. Orner reads and writes everywhere he finds himself: a hospital cafeteria, a coffee shop in Albania, or a crowded bus in Haiti. The result is 'a book of unlearned meditations that stumbles into memoir.' Among the many writers Orner addresses are Isaac Babel and Zora Neale Hurston,...

"The rules of summer book club are simple: No sad books, No pressure, Yessssss, wine! Besties Laurel and Paris are excited to welcome Cassie to the group. This year, the book club is all about fill-your-heart reads, an escape from the chaos of the everyday--running a business, raising a family, juggling a hundred to-dos. Even the dog is demanding (but the bestest boy). Since Laurel's divorce, she feels like the Worst Mom Ever. Her skepticism of men...

"London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. Bingham Books was a dream they shared together, and without Harry, Gertie wonders if it's time to take her faithful old lab, Hemingway, and retire to the seaside. But fate has other plans for Gertie. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from...

Zoom Ardillas pone a prueba un nuevo superpoder con la ayuda de un misterioso Misterios Lector. ¿Descubrir̀n las compąeras Ardillas quǐn es el verdadero Misterioso Lector? ¿Sabes t͠ m̀s sobre la lectura que las Ardillas? ¡Lo sabr̀s cuando termine este libro? As Zoom Squirrel and his friends try to identify the Mystery Reader, they learn about books, how the are written, and how to read--while sharing a-corny jokes.

In Bogotá, Columbia, young José eagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by José Alberto Gutiérrez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes note about Gutiérrez's life and Bogotá.