Here Lies the Librarian (Hardcover) by Richard Peck

from McHenrysPlace

Found this delightful book misfiled in the adult section of the local Library; actually written for "young adults" although young teens would be more appropriate but this day and age of such overriding fear of "offending" anyone, "young adult" it shall be. Read it anyway--in fact, straight throug...

from dfullmer

This was a fun story set in the early 1900's about a small town just on the dawn of the automobile age. It begins with a gruesome scene, a tornado rips through a graveyard and leaves several of the recently deceased townspeople suspended from trees. A great librarian epitaph "Here lies the librar...

from MrsHillReads

I'm a librarian...of course,I loved this book! Richard Peck is one of my favorite authors and this book didn't disappoint me. I think it is his sense of humor that I really like--he can poke fun at people and not be mean about it. Do I think my students will read it? probably not.

from amcguinn

Peewee and Jake McGrath, a brother and sister in a small Indiana town in the 1910's, live a meager existence surviving on the money they make from repairing cars. However, when 4 female students come to town to take the librarian's job, the opportunities for Pewee and Jake drastically improve. Th...

from book58lover

When a book starts out with a torando that tears apart a cemetery and puts body parts in the trees, you can only wonder where it will go from there. Around a race track, is where and by a young 14 year old girl, not her brother. The outlying village is the poor cousin and is populated by characte...