Cranston Public Library

Thirteen-year-old Alcatraz Smedry and his companions seek Al's father and grandfather in the Great Library of Alexandria, where they face undead, soul-stealing wraiths called the Curators of Alexandria, and one of the Scrivener's Bones, a part-human, part-machine mercenary.

Alcatraz Smedry doesn't seem destined for anything but disaster. But on his thirteenth birthday, he receives a bag of sand, and his life takes a bizarre turn. This is no ordinary bag of sand ... and it is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians who are taking over the world by spreading misinformation and suppressing truth. The sand will give the evil Librarians the edge they need to achieve world domination. Alcatraz must stop them ... by infiltrating...

It's another scary day at the Black Lagoon. . . .

Join Hubie once again as he faces his comically horrific fears during his first trip to the school library. Mrs. Beamster may be the school librarian, but to the kids at school, she's the "Laminator." If she catches you whispering, you're laminated! How will Hubie ever survive his first library trip?

"The evil Librarians are back! Alcatraz Smedry has made it to the Free Kingdoms. Unfortunately, so have the evil Librarians - including his mother. Now all Alcatraz has to do is find a traitor among the Knights of Crystallia, try to be friends with his very unfriendly father, save one of the last bastions of the Free Kingdoms from the enemy, and get his friend Bastille reinstated as a real knight." --

When four babies arrival on an island with notes saying, "Please keep this baby safe," the islanders come together and help raise them.

"When evil Dr. Glockenspiel threatens all the books in the world, only one person can stop him--a book-wielding, super-secret operative called Lyric McKerrigan." --

When Beverly and Oliver, who do well in school but not on the softball field, set out to become better players they get some pointers from their favorite librarian and spend a lot of time practicing.

The school lunch lady, a secret crime fighter, sets out to stop a group of librarians bent on destroying a shipment of video games, while a group of students known as the Breakfast Bunch provides back-up.

A formidable librarian makes readers not only out of the once resistant residents of her small town, but out of a tough-talking, television-watching motorcycle gang as well.

"Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to...