Newbery Medalist Spinelli has concocted four humours, heartbreaking, and over-the-top short stories - all connected by a magical blue library car

When fifth-grader Trip Kindleman, who does not like to read very much, is hit on the head by a heavy box and becomes a character in a series of d

Ten short stories in which the lives of young people in different circumstances are changed by their encounters with books.

Mother Pig reads bedtime stories to her little pigs, including "The Pig Prince," "The Ugly Pigling," "Piggerella," and "the Prince and the Porker

Nothing ever changes inside the storybook kingdom inhabited by twelve-year-old Princess Sylvie, her parents, and many other characters until Sylv

When their mother starts dropping them off at the library several afternoons a week, nine-year-old William and his brother dread boredom and the

Freddy is dissatisfied with his monotonous treadmill life at the pet store. He endures countless indignities in order to get himself adopted so h

As Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double--tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, ask

A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who rides

The Alden children hunt for their late grandmother's necklace that has been missing for years.