Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures that only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive. MacKenzie bishop, a Keeper tasked with stopping violent Histories from waking up and escaping the Archive, almost lost her life to a History named Owen this past summer. Now she finds herself haunted by Owen--he makes appearances...

Maisy goes to the library in search of a book about fish and a quiet place in which to read it.

Sam, a shy but creative mouse who lives in a library, decides to write and illustrate his own stories which he places on the shelves with the other library books but when children find the tales, they all want to meet the author.

When Sarah, an explorer mouse, meets Sam she gives him the courage to finally climb to the highest library shelves--and beyond--and he shows her how to explore the world through reading.

Emily decides that the town of Pitchfork needs a library, and comes up with a plan to make it happen. Can she make her dream come true?

"When the children discover a bear at the librarian's desk at story time, they think he's the new librarian. He's not!"--

Clara's dream of enriching her rough life on the family farm is fulfilled when a horse-drawn book wagon visits with the country's first traveling library.

Unhappy after his parents move to a weird subdivision and become workaholics, thirteen-year-old Travis returns to his old Salinas neighborhood and becomes actively involved in saving the John Steinbeck Library and, at the same time, begins seeing characters from Steinbeck's books who seem to have a message for him.

A child brings a dragon to the library and learns a valuable lesson--libraries and dragons do not mix.

"The librarian helps Owen defeat the legendary Inkfoot"--Title page verso.