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Biblioburro: A True Story from Colombia
Jeanette Winter - Beach Lane Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Luis loves to read, but soon his house in Colombia is so full of books there's barely room for the family. What to do? Then he comes up with the perfect solution--a traveling library! He buys two donkeys--Alfa and Beto--and travels with them throughout the land, bringing books and reading... |
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That Book Woman
Heather Henson - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Audiobook
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An exquisitely illustrated paean to everyone who struggles to learn how to read, and to everyone who wont give up on them.Cal is not the readin type. Living way high up in the Appalachian Mountains, hed rather help Pap plow or go out after wandering sheep than try some book learning. Nope.... |
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Hannah's Bookmobile Christmas
Sally Derby - Henry Holt & Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A warm-spirited Christmas story about friendship and generosity, with a touch of adventure.Snowflakes like dandelion fluff floated in the air. Christmas carols rang through the streets, and thesleigh bells on Blue Bird's door chimed merrily as people went in and out.It's Christmas... |
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The Horseback Librarians
Jane Yolen - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Anna Mary brings books to children and adults in Appalachia during the Great Depression.. There were no libraries in the backwoods of Kentucky in the 1930s. Librarians there and throughout the South delivered books to families by horseback and mule, sleeping outdoors or sheltering in barns... |
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Junia, The Book Mule of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michele Richardson - Sleeping Bear Press
Format: Hardcover
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Junia is a mule. But she's not just any mule. She's a mule with an important job. Every morning she carries her Book Woman up and down the rugged hills and surrounding woodlands near the Kentucky town of Troublesome Creek. Book Woman is a Pack Horse librarian. She and Junia deliver... |
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Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's First Bookmobile
Sharlee Glenn - Abrams Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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If you can't bring the man to the books, bring the books to the man. Mary Lemist Titcomb (1852-1932) was always looking for ways to improve her library. As librarian at the Washington County Free Library in Maryland, Titcomb was concerned that the library was not reaching all the people... |
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Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile
Gloria Houston - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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When Dorothy was a young girl, she loved books, and she loved people, so she decided that she would become a librarian.Dorothy's dearest wish is to be a librarian in a fine brick library just like the one she visited when she was small. But her new home in North Carolina has valleys and streams... |
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Wild About Books
Judy Sierra - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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It started the summer of 2002, when the Springfield librarian, Molly McGrew, by mistake drove her bookmobile into the zoo.In this rollicking rhymed story, Molly introduces birds and beasts to this new something called reading. She finds the perfect book for every animal - tall books for giraffes,... |
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