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After 557 years of faithful service, Miss Lotty is retiring from guarding books. But on her very last day, disaster strikes! Someone has ordered all the books to be removed from the library and replaced with machines! It's enough to make Lotty feel a little… dragon-like. After she bursts into a fiery rage, can anything make her shed her scales again?

Der 13jährige Ferdinand wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher, als Schriftsteller zu werden. In den Augen seines Vaters ist die Schriftstellerei jedoch kein ernstzunehmender Beruf, was zu häufigen Streitereien führt, die Ferdinand sehr belasten. Unterstützung findet er nicht nur bei seinem besten Freund Rasmus und der rätselhaften Thea, sondern auch bei seinem Onkel Phil. Von diesem erfährt er, dass in der Vergangenheit seines Vaters Geheimnisse liegen, die er vor seiner Familie verbirgt.

Yo visits the library and reads a story, a fiction book about elephants who can swim. Yo doesn’t think elephants would make good swimmers–he thinks they’re too heavy! The librarian shows Yo how to find non-fiction books about elephants. Yo likes the book about real elephants and is surprised to learn elephants are great swimmers after all! What are some fiction or nonfiction books that you know?

Essie has grown up in the public library, raised in secret by the four librarians who found her abandoned as a baby in the children’s department. With four mothers and miles of books to read, Essie has always been very happy living there. But now that she is eleven, Essie longs for a little more freedom…and maybe a friend her own age. She seems to get her wish when her moms let her go by herself to the mall.

It’s the third day of summer vacation, and Lark’s halmoni—that’s Korean for grandmother—has promised to take Lark and her twin brother, Connor, to the library. Only trouble is, they arrive to discover that the town librarian is missing her key to the library. Lucky for her, Lark just happens to be a budding private eye. Can rookie detectives Lark and Connor solve this mystery and recover the lost key?