Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

When Miranda Brooks receives the unexpected news that her uncle Billy has died and left her his bookstore, she discovers he's left her a business teetering on bankruptcy and a final scavenger hunt.

Jimmy loves reading so much that he's inspired to start a book company for kids... run by kids. with a Ferris wheel instead of an elevator, a bowling alley in the break room, and a river filled with floating books.

Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon-like all other book eater women-is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairytales and cautionary stories. But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger-not for books, but for human minds.

Set in a world where reading is unheard-of, Sefia makes use of a mysterious object to track down who kidnapped her aunt Nin and what really happened the night her father was murdered.

A Swedish woman who arrives in Iowa to learn that her pen pal has just died opens a bookstore in the woman's honor and makes choices that threaten to bring secrets to light as she attempts to share her love of reading with the locals.

A determined elephant creates his own book box and discovers all the magic and fun of books and reading.

Emily and James discover coded notes written by Mr. Quisling and encrypted messages in Mark Twain books, and with each book triggering a fire, the team suspects that Mr. Quisling is after an unbreakable code and may be the arsonist.