Frank Carlson Library

This book contains Count Dracula's memoirs. And as you would expect, there are plenty of hideous creatures in it--giant yetis, insidious werewolves, slimy fish monsters--maybe you shouldn't read it! You might learn things you didn't know about monsters before. Hair-raising things that make these monsters appear . . .friendly . . .even downright human. So, take my advice. Put the book down and move on before you get caught in its clutches. Sincerely,...

A collection of stories that celebrate various kinds of love. Includes sixteen prose stories, two stories in verse, and one story in comic book format. A collection of fiction, nonfiction, and a story in verse celebrating love. Levithan has created a mixtape of stories, verses, and illustrations featuring characters from his novels, as well as new characters. All of them are discovering the ways in which their hearts can sing. -- adapted from jacket...

An evocative picture book that tells the true story of the author's immigration from Kuwait to the United States. -- Zahra lives in a beautiful place where the desert reaches all the way to the sea and one hundred butterflies always fill the sky. When Baba and Mama tell her that their family is no longer welcome here and they must leave, Zahra wonders if she will ever feel at home again--and what about the people she will leave behind? But when...

"When Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote her autobiography, Pioneer Girl, she had no idea that children across the United States would be reading about and falling in love with Laura Ingalls and her family just two years later. Pioneer Girl: The Path into Fiction traces the evolution of Wilder's matter-of-fact memoir of her girlhood in Wisconsin into a bestselling novel for children. Along the way, editor Nancy Tystad Koupal discloses previously unknown aspects...