Readers from everywhere pore over books, each with their own questions, ideas to explore, hopes for the future, and imaginations ready to spark, showing the many ways books can foster connection and empower children.

While chaperoning her half-brother, who is in a robotics competition at the local library, chef Samantha Gale meets Bennett Reynolds, who has come to Martha’s Vineyard to find his father, and as their summer fling heats up, they both realize they may have stumbled upon happily-ever-after.

When Pinkalicious can't find any new books to read, she makes a booktastic little library.

In the small town of Los Lobos, California, three women join a local indie bookstore's summer book club--devoted entirely to romance novels--and become life-long friends as they navigate the messiness of motherhood, second chances and becoming the person you've always wanted to be.

"When your chickens start begging for books, it's time to teach them to read. Find a cozy place to rest their chicken cheeks, then help them peck the right story. Readers don't hatch overnight, but with your help, words will begin flying off the pages--as longs as there are no foxes around!"--

Pearl is an anglerfish who wants to read her book in peace, but the other fish won't leave her alone! Nothing she does will keep them away--not hanging signs, not hiding under the seaweed, nor swimming away to a shipwreck. What's a poor fish got to do for some quiet alone time? Eventually Peral goes deeper and deeper to the abyssal zone--but then she has no one to discuss the book with.

"It's the night before Christmas but Andy and Terry aren't ready yet! They haven't written their letters to Santa, they haven't sung any carols or hung their stockings, and now Mr. Big Nose wants their next book done by tomorrow. When Santa Claus's sleigh crash-lands in the treehouse, the reindeer become tangled in the branches and Santa falls into the cloning machine. With dozens of Santas running around and no way to tell which one's the real one,...

Discovered practicing alchemy by apprentice Ramsay Thorne, Ash must help her find a sacred text of extraordinary power--a journey that forces him to discover his own definition of true power and how far he will go to seize it.

Clarisse, a street cat who loves books, finds a new home in the library as a read-aloud cat.

Imani's new classmate, Penelope, does not have many books, so Imani uses her hair magic to come up with the perfect present--a little free library stocked with books outside Penelope's building.