Eleven-year-old Pearl Moran cannot imagine life without the historic but under-utilized branch of the New York Public Library where she was born (in the Memorial Room) and where her single mother works as the circulation librarian; the other librarians, the neighborhood people, the raccoons, and most of the 41,000 plus books all form the structure and essence of her life--but when someone cuts off the head of the library's statue of Edna St. Vincent...

"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. The only trouble is, they arrive to discover that Mrs. Robinson, the town librarian, has lost her key. Can rookie detectives Lark and Connor solve the mystery of the missing key?"--Back cover.

Puzzled over what to write for a creative writing contest, Abby finds inspiration when her dog digs up an old key on a gold chain and she sets out, with the help of Mrs. Mackenzie the public librarian, to solve the mystery of the golden key.

A lot of Abby's favorite books have gone missing at the local public library and she suspects a strange man that she has seen there but Jeremy, the bully in her class, and his four-year-old hyperactive brother Evan are complicating her investigation.

From his adventures in The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn teenager Anthony Monday returns to take on a storm of sorcery. Anthony can always count on his friend, sixty-eight-year-old librarian Miss Eells, to break up Hoosac's hot summer days with some adventure or other, but this one takes the cake. On their way to get ice cream, they make a side trip to the abandoned mansion of the late J. K. Borkman, a once rich and weird eccentric who was...

"While spending the summer in an old house on a desolate Canadian island, Anthony Monday and Miss Eells discover a chest that can transport them to another world and a maniacal group who are plotting the destruction of people on Earth."--

Pour quelle raison Max a-t-il bien pu disparaitre du jour au lendemain ? Hugo, Elsa, Flo et Virginie sont inquiets. Mais o est donc passé Max ? Hier soir, il paraissait tout à fait normal. Pourquoi leur demande-t-il maintenant de ne pas chercher à le contacter ? Une seule explication leur vient à l'esprit : ce vieux livre tout cabossé sur les codes secrets acheté la veille chez un bouquiniste. Pour Max, passionné de mystères, dénicher une...