Valley looked like Seraphina Nightingale from her favorite book series, the Witches of Heartbreak Cove, or something. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You have to memorize ten Bible verses plus the books of the Old and New Testaments. And it’s a park.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“If I had half that Talent, I could—” Toby didn’t realize he’d dropped his stack of books until he heard the thud. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Celaena glanced from her book to the tapestry on the wall. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She scanned her brother’s room: books, old art projects, a few binders of ordinary baseball cards, and his action figure of Hermey the elf. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

So my third hobby is history, and Father's already bought me numerous books. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She knew there was only one way the assassin could have known she had the book. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Do you know why you hit me with that book?” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then in their cipher language James wrote Now! and many things happened at once: Emily threw her water at Mr. Remora, getting the American Revolution books wet in the process. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I stared at my book for a minute or so, making like I was already back into the story, but when I looked up Rondell was still mad-dogging me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When Ma offered to teach him to read, Pa’d say, “Hard work shrinks your mind. Got no more room up here for book learning.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

As the last light fled from the holes in the ceiling, I found more books above other bookshelves. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard of it before,” he said, picking up his book. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She flipped to the front of the book and peered at the handwriting inside the cover. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A mother like the mothers in the books. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Around kids his age he was awkward and quiet, never knowing what to say unless he could bring the conversation around to books. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Petra and Calder talked about the book on the way to school the next morning. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody, least of all humans themselves, had any inkling that their descendants would one day walk on the moon, split the atom, fathom the genetic code and write history books. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no books in Elinor's kitchen, not one, but they ate an excellent supper there at a wooden table that came, so Elinor assured them, from the scriptorium of an Italian monastery. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But there must have been books devoted to the subject that I’d never been curious enough to look into. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the number of books in a child’s home merely indicates how much money his parents make. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Every nook was occupied by a chair, a teetering pile of books, or both. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He propped the book against his knees and began reading: Chapter 1. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“She must have confused her book characters,” was Miss K’s amused answer. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The books were read, but they had little influence, and the demand for them was modest: it took, for example, twenty-five years for The New Organon to appear in a second edition. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I couldn't decide if it were from watching some similar scene in the movies, from books I'd read, or from some recurrent but deeply buried dream. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obviously, that would be impossible to accomplish in a single book even if we did understand all the answers, which we don’t. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before she could wonder about that anymore Mortola put the book on her lap. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I read that book like...four years ago. And there aren’t any soldiers in it,” she says, pointing at a picture hanging on the wall of the room I made. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

They do speak of the circus, but spend most of the meal discussing books and art, wine and favorite cities. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He held up the large calf-bound folio, and I saw by its gilt lettering that it was a book of anatomy by Vesalius. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I walk in circles staring up at that ceiling and bump into a woman with books. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Go ahead and label each of them in your book,” Granddaddy said, “and note the page in the atlas so you can find them again.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I gasped, then pretended I was engrossed in the book. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But he kept working on the book, veering away from it sometimes to help Frank with his beetles. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were history books as well, like those he studied at school, the best ones filled with maps that showed how the world had changed over centuries. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“You should find another way to occupy your time,” he said, returning to his book. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Suit #1 asks, showing my dad a page in the book. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

And I'd let D.B. come out and visit me for a while if he wanted a nice, quiet place for his writing, but he couldn't write any movies in my cabin, only stories and books. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Meggie put her head around the open door and saw Mo covering a book with brown paper. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Delving through books, he discovered the writings of Catholic theologians, and he became intrigued with the religion. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight I was supposed to write a book report on The Call of the Wild. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He flipped the book sideways and read its spine. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Molly put the letter in her book and, without another word, walked back to school. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Emily lay on her bed, finishing a book James had lent her called Rhyme Schemer. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“But Cap said the book had the whole history of everything inside it,” Meeks said, scratching his head. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“It is a filthy and vile book,” said the priest. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She places her right hand next to his, along the adjoining books. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He noticed the sturdy furniture, neatly arranged, and the bookcases filled with Mentor’s books. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He reached to help her stack the remaining books. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Marguerite’s is a story well suited for a book of sad romance, I think, remembering how I used to relish such tales. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, how was she going to hang on to the book if Basta decided to take it away from her? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She read six books a day and could do two crossword puzzles at once—with a ballpoint pen. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I shall use this anecdote in my book.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I loved to read—any and all books. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It couldn’t have been dedicated to anyone else, since it was Zoey’s experiences in middle school that inspired me to write the book. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Each of their names was carefully recorded in account books. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I frowned and looked at the spine of the book. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Thinking it may feel kinda good to talk about books. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Please! Promise me you won't try to get the book back.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She told me about a book she had just finished reading: it was on the table in her room and she was sure I would like it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“A little bit ago you were freaking out at me for being late for curfew, and now were talking about garlic? They’re burning books—Dad’s books.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The captain looked thoughtfully at the book, though he didn’t move to take it. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The book has a purple leather cover with a gold hibiscus flower embossed on the front. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I closed the book and put it on the shelf and turned around. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I loved school, and all I cared about were my books! Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She had been dying to go to Griswold’s famous San Francisco book carnival since she first heard about it five years ago. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A group of enchanting teenagers told me how they were studying my books at school. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They carried a book about the history of American socialism. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I leaned up against him like I used to do when I was four and he was ten and he was reading me a book. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shut the book with a snap, and put it away under my gloves; and stretching to a near-by chair, I took up an old copy of L’llustration and turned the pages. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

For eighty years, this false story has been repeated in textbooks, popular books, articles, and movies. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She quickly brought back a book entitled Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

James smiled happily over his pile of books. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kulkarni suggested I hire a remote assistant in India to do all the research for this book. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“We found a secret message in a book,” Emily blurted out. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The question came with the memory of Hollister offering to deliver him a book the last time they were both in the bookstore. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But before the end of the first book she w'as asleep. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That would have been fun to look at, but I had no way of telling him I’d like to see the book. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Uncle Shepsel put away his book on how to become a Lutheran. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I would kill, he thought suddenly, for a book of matches. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gertrude rose to fetch a small book from a high shelf and returned to a cushioned settee, motioning for me to sit at her feet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But Finn, Emma, and Chess all plopped their backpacks down beside the huge table in the kitchen and began taking out folders and books. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She stamps a card and puts it in the back of the book, then hands me a card inside a small yellow envelope. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Archer touched his temple with his fingers and held the blades of his hands together, opening and closing them like the covers of a book. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The count starts off his book by saying that the Jews are Satanists, and it offers the theory that there’s a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I heard Bunny scream; this was followed by a crash, as if of books being swept from desk to floor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I shuffled halfway into the filled book: “I’m not sure, but it’s late.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Hazel floated onto the bus, sat down in her usual seat, and pulled out a book. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I have heard it said that we Navajos carried code books with us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for her suitcase of books — that stayed in her old room, with Maniac. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like looking at the pictures of butterflies in his book. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She take off the paper and stare at the book, all the names signed in it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He reached over and yanked the bell cord, then nudged Nunu, who put away her picture book. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

In my daydream I see Daddy seeing Mama for the first time reading a book under a tree. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Text me, let me know what you think of the book. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“He jammed that new cabinet in there a few months back and hasn’t moved it since. He probably doesn’t even remember that there are books behind it.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There must have been hundreds—perhaps thousands—of books, their titles embossed in shiny letters. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The books of ballads and histories make an enormous splash, then lodge between two stones and will not budge. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Greetings, heroes!” called Mrs. Yunghans, the middle school librarian, who absolutely loved having the most famous library card holders in America checking out books in her library. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

How, she asked herself, does one choose a famous grown-up book for a four-year-old girl? Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The fields are cultivated with horse plows while books are written by machinery. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Seventeenth-century scholars sometimes felt they were drowning in an ocean of books. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

One of the books that Lily had brought Rumfoord was The Destruction of Dresden, by an Englishman named David Irving. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the Englishman stared out at the desert, his eyes seemed brighter than they had when he was reading his books. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the only way we're going to track down the owner of that book.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Holding up my phone, I fit the camera lens in a gap in the books at my eye level. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until after his father died, in his last year of college, that the country began to interest him, and he studied its history from course books as if it were any other subject. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I sat beside him while he opened the book and closed it and then opened it again. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had walked these streets often enough since Capricorn brought him here to look for Silvertongue and the book. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And now and again, when I looked up from my book or glanced across the garden, I had the feeling I was not alone. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

When I told her what Grandpa said, she slammed her book down so hard, the cat leaped off the table. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I had thought carefully about whether anything in Newjack could conceivably endanger my fellow officers before I included it in the book, and no officer has yet complained to me about those revelations. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little book lay on the floor, nondescript and soggy. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

My books and papers spilled down the stairs, but at least my tablet stayed Velcroed in. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He touches his finger to a page, then spins the book around to show me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The record book listed his growth, weight, speed, strength, and grades in National Socialist tests. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed my books and dashed out; halfway to the Lyceum, I realized I was running, and forced myself to slow to a walk. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was certain to flunk English this term, simply because English was mostly reading and he didn’t have time anymore to spend four or five hours every night reading a lousy book. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shifts his cross-legged position on the desktop and looks at me for much too long before he finally returns to the pages in his open book. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Any book about socialism or communism was definitely out. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I vaguely remembered Mo showing me a picture of a lamassu in one of his archaeology books. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The walls were soon plastered with reproductions of Vermeer paintings, and library books were piled on every surface. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Emma continued to read books on religion as well, and on politics; she read the Psalms, but was not much impressed by them, and as usual she called it as she saw it. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within days of Badenhorst’s appointment, our cells were raided and searched; books and papers were confiscated; meals were suspended without warning; and men were jostled on the way to the quarry. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not stealing. It’s like the library. You check out a book, look at what’s inside, and take it back. We’ll use this canister as our model. We make our own and return this one.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’m engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Celaena looked up from an ancient book of Wyrdmark theories as the door creaked open, the hinges squealing loud enough to wake the dead. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And educating herself one book at a time. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe I shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, for once in my life. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Small tables dotted the room, with more books stacked on top of each one. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“You mean you think she brought the books here, to the island? Like, when she came in the boat? I never thought about that.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Where do we go from here? Would books help us?” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I handed the book over, and Dr. Holden began paging through it slowly. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then a half hour later on the same day, Mr. Creed, the guidance counselor, calls Mom and says he's got a huge pile of books and assignments for me. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he first read Charles’s book, he cried, “How extremely stupid not to have thought of that!” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The symbol for the second key was a book. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But I got up, leaving my books behind, and walked toward the Smoking Hole. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

So when we left chemistry and headed for the gym, I shifted my books over to one arm and took his hand, threading our fingers together. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Whatever that thing was, he could not find it in the book. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

But Mac simply smiled and said the authorities wouldn’t know that; they judged a book by its tide. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face was hidden behind a large book. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hermione gave a shaky laugh and leaned forward to pick up two more books. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Or under the table at the library if we get the table in the back corner, behind the oversized books, where no one ever goes. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She couldn't believe she'd let him see that on her book. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“All right. I have a good old-fashioned phone book under the counter.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He turned and saw the girl with a bright red book under one arm. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She was used, after all, to reading books with pages missing, fallen off while passing through too many hands. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Of course she couldn't take her book box. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Richard carries Reverend Hunt’s satchel, heavy with his books and Bible and some extra clothes. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

And she thought wars were partly encouraged by books and movies. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I told my client I’d deliver the book to her this week.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Max eats a second ham sandwich and rereads a comic book, and sheets of yellow flowers glow in the fields, and Jutta wonders if any of them grow over the bones of her brother. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It had a few comic books, some lollipops, gum, jars filled with hard candy, and a Pac-Man machine. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“The cat is one of the tokens from that board game,” said Sierra, who had been studying Lemoncello games the way Kyle had been studying libraries and books. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

After I had completed that book, I realized that other modern, as well as prehistoric, encounters between peoples raised similar questions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Momma closes her book and stretches her arms high above her head. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

This time I had the book open to the place. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Catch up tonight, okay? Chapter twenty-seven in your American history book talks about how churches were bombed, houses were burned, people were lynched. History MADE.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He has no head at all for math, so in addition to keeping the books at the store, I balance our accounts at home and pay our taxes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“When my mom told me stories about the Night Bazaar, this was the place I wanted to see most. All the books are enchanted. They cover everything and everyone.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

After I laid my life out like an open book, I couldn’t help but break down and cry. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The colorful laminated spines along the shelves shine white with the glare, making me squint as I push my cart of books down the aisle. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They look like those ducklings from the picture book I used to read to my brother when he was little. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Even when I was able to read myself, this book remained his. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Holding that book in my hands, I finally believed that whoever wrote me those notes actually knew about things before they happened. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we could beat him to one of the books he’s hunting.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Celaena scratched her behind the ears and ran a hand along the page of the book. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I shouted as I plopped my book bag down on the kitchen floor and waved the letter in the air. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I thanked him as well as I could, and talk now about ‘my library’, as if I had a hundred books. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slide from the rock to the ground and walk softly over to the sycamore hollow to pull out the book inside. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know enough to be aware that I wasn’t taken to the desk and booked. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peer into his room and see an unmade bed and a stack of books on his desk. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She sat up and looked around her room, then got down from the bed and opened her backpack and unloaded everything—all of the books and folders and notebooks—and hid them under the bed. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Face rigid, he watched Capricorn’s men throw more and more books into the braziers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

This is a library now, that would have made your grandfather happy, as if all of his buried books were seeds, from each book came one hundred. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The corporal picks up a book from the parlor table—a children’s book about a talking train—and turns every one of its pages before dropping it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

By the end of the day, all of my clothes, my books, and my sewing machine are here at the Malloys’. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

To feed my passion for reading, I checked out books at such a rate that the principal said to me, “Are you planning to read every single book in this library?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only other book on the shelf is Mama Ya-Ya’s Bible. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I frown, sliding Excuse, into an empty pocket of his communication book. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You obviously haven't changed either. Come in. I'll show you the books that need your help, and a few others as well.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A book opened and closed on the side of her hand. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maria envisioned a big book—bigger than her earlier caterpillar books—emblazoned with prints of life-size Surinam marvels. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Sitting on top of all his books was the white box, tied with strings. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He waits for her on the sofa in the common room as she searches for the book. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If this book should ever reach Mina before I do, let it bring my good-bye. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

With furious concentration he sent for books, instruments, chemicals, all manner of tools and equipment. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She pulls the book close to her bosom and holds it there and doesn’t take her eyes off me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I wait for my questions from Saint Sarah, I can’t stop myself from turning to the last page of my seerah book. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

We picked up the knocked down chairs and table, cleaned the glass from the broken lanterns, and put the books back on the shelf. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Right now, Luna set it just so, and the cricket began to turn the pages of a book. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Bobby never let the book out of his sight and carried it everywhere. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma was sitting across from him, still in her nightdress, sipping tea, flipping through her old book, straightening up photos. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It would only annoy Elinor, and who knew what she might do with the books then? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Shelves stuffed with books were built into three walls, and a TV dominated the fourth. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“The sea. Like in the book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“This library is like a good book. You just gotta check it out!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The top results were mostly about a movie that had been made of the book. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Wipe first, then soft gauze, then book covers. Then tape.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Later, at bedtime, my dad read the Lyle book to Robin. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At the time this book went to print, thirteen million American children were living in poverty, some half million of whom labor in the fields that grow America’s food. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The book is warm and heavy from the sun. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Pollard, with his books, his stories, and his offbeat sense of humor, earned the bewildered affection of everyone at the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

On her lap was a book, her fingers resting on the page. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was a huge book on porous mimeographed paper—four hundred pages long with no drawings or photographs, only diagrams and formulas—between brick-red cardboard covers. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“If you were to read the books in the library, they could explain it so that there could be no possible doubt.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He shut the door and lifted a pile of books off the visitor’s chair before offering her a cup of coffee. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She did love the library, partly because she loved the books there but also because it was nice to talk to Ube. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A book lay by her side, open and still waiting for her to turn the page. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But I remember the names from the pictures and in the book, and soon as I leave school tomorrow, those are the ones I’ll be looking for in the library. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He moved because of absentminded politeness, taking a Trout book with him—the one about Jesus and the time machine. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then all would go quiet and we’d return cheerlessly to our books. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if her geography book had marked her to roam the country, planting her feet in each pink, yellow, blue or green state. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whole books have been written about it and academics have built careers on it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When I’m following what a character does in a book I don’t have to think about my own life. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I took a few paces back, the book still held to my chest. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The third painting is a pile of books—French novels—on a table. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Haven’t you learned anything from all those clever books of yours?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But in October of 1844, a book called Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation came out. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after a few paragraphs he closes this book as well. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you tried writing all the letters on a separate page, in the order they show up in the book?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Two recent popular books on the history of the dating of Earth actually manage to misspell his name. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Whenever James was able to get his hands on a book—and there weren't many around一he read it over and over. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You told me that a thousand times. If there’s one thing I know, it’s where the stupid book is supposed to be.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

There’s the hotel, three suites booked for them on the very top floor, riding through the lobby on Cash’s impossibly broad back. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

August said her heart had desired to read books, so the whole month she got to prop on the sofa in the quiet of the living room reading after her sisters went to bed. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, it wasn’t the kind of book that exactly made you look up to the brighter side. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m gonna try and read every single book they got on the bookshelf in the game room. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He arranged the cushions, straightened the sofa, tidied the books and papers on the table. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And I guess that's because books have always been so much more interesting than my life. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, he lays the book on his chest and says, “You remember Sir Patrick Moore.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Sure,” I say, and bury my head in my book. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He opened the book at the place marked by a slip of paper and began to read. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the books would have to come from the middle school media center. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Bits and pieces of equipment lay strewn all over the floor, and at the rear was a heavy wooden table covered with books, bottles, and bric-a-brac. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next day I was called to the principal’s office and there was my mom with a list of books written by and about black people. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Never once without a borrowed book to read. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Colin placed the book in his dad's lap and said, “This circle is missing a piece. The missing piece is shaped like a pizza.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Every time I have to read text in colors other than black or white, like in a magazine advertisement or on a book cover, I get a headache because it’s the wrong color. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

To her delight, William wanted to work on the book with her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I put my book bag under my seat and scooted back in my chair. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Originally it appears in a book by Sun Tzu called The Art of War. It comes at the end of the third chapter.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He opened her book to the right page and pointed. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“No, señor,” she said, shaking her head emphatically and pointing to the dictionary, the sole book to survive the pawning of items after Abuelito fell ill. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The book is rare, and presumably had few readers, but those few would have found frequent occurrences of the word ‘fact’ in Salusbury’s translations, particularly in the Letter. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I wince, sliding the card into an empty pocket in his communication book. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do you then not think this is a divine book written by the inky finger of God?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Until he was ten, Bobby’s regimen was fairly routine: He played at the Brooklyn Chess Club every Friday night, with Regina sitting on the sidelines, reading a book or doing her nursing homework. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Her most valuable books—they took them out into the garden and burned them. All she found in her library was a dead rooster." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She said, “I loved that book. Meeting you is like a miracle.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It is their books he reads, their music he listens to. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As an unforeseen bonus for the purposes of this book, evolutionary biology is a historical science forced to use methods different from those of the laboratory sciences. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Aru watched, eyes wide, as the books hopped and fluttered around. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Working too hard. You’d think he was writing a whole cyclopaedia instead of just one book.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fayge’s father cleared his throat and closed the book on his lap. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m learning on my own,” I answered, and reluctantly showed him the book I was using. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He likes to pretend he lives inside the comic books. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Wait,” announced Father as he pulled a small blue book from his back pocket to give Shirley. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Gabriel turned a page of the book he was reading. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

This was her favorite part of book hunting. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Jason watches my face, but his hand moves to give me room to reach the last empty pockets of his communication book. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Science was a mystery, perhaps because the only science book I’d ever read had had detachable pages for coloring. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He fastens the lock on the knob for good measure, then wedges the book on a high shelf between two volumes of the Hardy Boys. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were too busy, back at their worktables down in the Rotunda Reading Room, folding the paper airplanes they had chosen from that one book in the 700s room. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Banner signed my slip and handed me a book with no nonsense about introductions. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And I had the high intention of reading many other books besides. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I jump when she says, “You found a book yet?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

I sighed, slipped an old hair ribbon into the book to mark my place, and trudged downstairs. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was perfectly situated in the sheltered lowland ahead and big as a palace, with the lovely symmetrical proportions of the ancient Greek architecture Penelope had so often admired in her history books at Swanburne. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Even history books that mentioned them as doubtful rumor have long since crumbled into dust. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I drop the tape back into the Walkman and, holding the player in both hands, close it like a book. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He waved to the small stack of books he’d sorted from the original pile. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Klaus stood by the window, squinting as he read his smuggled book by the moonlight that trickled into the room. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Gay was a writer who was just finishing her eighth book, and Philip made films. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

My mom is on the sofa, her nose deep in a book. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“From school, from my favorite teacher, and from the Internet. And books. Do you read books, Jack?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Some books on salesmanship recommend that persuaders try to mirror the posture or talking styles of their clients in order to establish rapport. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was an astonishing student, absorbing everything in the books, then looking past them for things his teachers didn’t know. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the merchandise looked pretty ordinary: books, electronics, baby diapers. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t hard to see why he’d tucked his dream into his books for safekeeping. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

This illustration spreads over two pages, and it appears to have been added as an afterthought as the book went through the press. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For much of this book I have emphasized the diffusion of technology that takes place in the absence of formidable barriers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I knew there were things going on in my head, a fantasy life, that somehow corresponded to the books I read. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I once owned a book designed to provoke the imagination and help bored children discover constructive ways to pass the time. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

We’ll be back about a week before term starts and we’ll be going up to London to get my wand and our new books. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I was just me again, back in my room with my books and my thoughts. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Besides, those little shorthand symbols in the book my mother showed me seemed just as bad as let t equal time and let s equal the total distance. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I need a place to hide my book...I need a place to hide my book...I need a place to hide my book... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“You want to give up everything? After all these years of working, because, one night, some woman and her books—” “You should have seen her, Millie!” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even turns the book upside down sometimes, but he says nothing helps. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There was even a rack of well-worn picture books for those days when fifth-graders felt like looking back at the books they grew up on. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

They collected everything of value, mostly books and photos, loaded them into the dinghy, which was named the Mini Ginny, and navigated to the nearest marina. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I need you to drive me somewhere. Tonight. And I need to borrow your book.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You get the book, and you get the cat. But what do I get?” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

A few years earlier, Bouza had written a book in which he called abortion “arguably the only effective crime-prevention device adopted in this nation since the late 1960s.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I found an art book that had a picture of the “Raft of the Medusa.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

On it there’s a microphone, a complicated-looking remote, and a thick book that has Song Menu written on the cover in three languages. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

PS Don’t worry, I’m going to the library now and I’m sure they’ll have a book on how to take care of chickens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I was happy because Father hadn’t thrown my book away. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I miss lying on the couch reading books even if we couldn’t go outside. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She thwacked him with the maroon book still gripped in her hand. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I never said that. I just didn't think your favorite spot in all of Brooklyn would be a corner where some guy sells books. Why not...the library?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

So now Eleanor waited until almost everybody else had changed and left the locker room, and then she carefully examined her books for anything suspicious. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Remember our apartment, Papa? With my books and our model and all those pinecones on the windowsill?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I passed her a book and pointed to a paragraph about what they did with orphaned children. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, I’d rather the brothers not catch me with my head in a book. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m looking in every newspaper, book and document I can find for the family trees of the French, German, Spanish, English, Austrian, Russian, Norwegian and Dutch royal families. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mo closed his book, leaving his finger between the pages. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I accidentally knocked my book off my desk.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her mom set down her book on her thigh. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Shephard grabs a stack of books from a table and takes them to a cart. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Then after half a hour, the girl would leave and he’d stay another half hour with his nose in a book afore he took off. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Despite a search from top to bottom at the McDowell County Library, Quentin still couldn’t find any books to help us. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mom has a note in her book, just a paragraph long, called “A Word on Words.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

So instead of cutting up her father’s law books, Elizabeth read them and made notes in the margins of the sections that affected women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

On the title page, there’s an inscription from my grandpa, who must have bought the book for Gram. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“They do nothing but thumb their prayer beads and recite a book written in a tongue they don’t even understand.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We won a place in the science books,” I said. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He was sitting at a small table, bent over a book, his long earlocks dangling down the sides of his face and almost reaching to the top of the table. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

And Chantal is at the edge of her bed with an opened book and a highlighter in her hand. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Vanessa’s mom is watching while she sits in a folding lawn chair, reading a book. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The piano strings had been removed, and in their place were more books. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My feet are better now, I’m dying to see my books again, and if I see one more tourist in swimming trunks I shall scream. But before I leave, let me give you this!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I already got a library book on how to take care of regular chickens. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

After sailing through a few chapters of my book, I took a break to slow the story a bit. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He placed a cardboard marker at the page and handed the book to me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you now? Do you have many books?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were three books open in front of him. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She read in the book for perhaps thirty seconds, picked up her pencil, then put it down again. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But Mo looked at the books lying at his feet and shook his head. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

You can open and close books a million times and they stay the same. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others, however, simply said, “You’re no different from other schoolchildren. They too have parents who have trouble getting jobs; yet they have uniforms and books.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every few minutes his voice would rise again as he called out a line or two, indicating where everyone should be in the prayer book. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

When were halfway there, I say good-bye to my parents, telling them I want to go back and get my book so I can read in the Hub library. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They walked quickly through the corridors of books. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I had the idea that I’d write a book that was a biography of both the cells and the woman they came from—someone’s daughter, wife, and mother. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When Nedelsky pointed out that the book was in Dutch, Oppenheimer replied, “But it’s such easy Dutch.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Hermione was already queuing outside, carrying an armful of heavy books and looking put-upon. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Thyon grabbed up the book, flipping it closed to study the title and cover. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He sat staring at the book as if it might give him an idea. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re here because you have something that interests us a great deal—a book.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

My dad smiled as he studied the book—but then he said, “Dante, this is really very generous—but I don’t know if I can accept this.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He turns to a new page in his communication book. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barack wasn’t a real black man, like them—someone who spoke like that, looked like that, and read that many books could never be. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When we got to Hoyt Street, the woman with the book got off. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“They gave me that ridiculous name—Silvertongue. And Capricorn is firmly convinced I can repeat the trick anytime, with any book at all.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The next day, I sit in a plastic beach chair and count the words in a book while everyone else rides the waterslides again. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps collectors who had read her two caterpillar books might wish to buy her watercolors—or her carefully preserved caterpillar and butterfly specimens. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We would sit in a row on one of these benches, each of us with a pile of twenty-one picture books, and read them, one after another. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Books on shelves that rose to the high ceiling, books in stacks on the floor, books holding up a potted violet in desperate need of water. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And behind it, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker lay ironed out upon the grass as flat and thin and lifeless as a couple of paper dolls cut out of a picture book. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Caleb Prior sits at a metal desk, bent over a book, his hair piled on one side of his head. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe he didn’t realize that Mr. Griswold had hidden the book and that it was missing on purpose. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

According to that book, the principles of spire fighting stated that everyone has a light deep inside them. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The math book lay apparently undisturbed, the edge of the card peeping out at either end. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I showed her the book Miss Riley had given me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They’ve had to get me a private room because it takes me only a second to absorb the printed page, and curious students invariably gather around me as I flip through my books. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I left my Captain Underpants book on the bench with Darissa, and I went over. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily I was in the habit of carrying several books with the name of my former school on them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he had a “more or less irresistible passion for books” that started in Zundert. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Make any wooden book ends lately?” he asked. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My book was in there—Two Women—and I wanted to read it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

And the whole book was a big map of London, but it had been chopped up so it could be made into a book, and I liked that. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I doubt if you can read any of my books. Here, read,” he ordered, pulling one out of the shelves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this book, we will explore a holistic, artistic, integrated, and forward-thinking 21st-century approach to understanding the developmental connections between music and children. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She was about Hugo’s age, and he often saw her go into the booth with a book under her arm and disappear behind the counter. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She plopped herself down on the floor in front of the bookcase and started looking at books like crazy. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had gnawed into the unsatisfying books and into my own unstocked mind without finding a morsel of peace or understanding. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a huge sheet cake shaped like an open book. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I just wasn’t really in the mood to be lugging books around, or learning stuff that didn’t really matter to me, or even worse, being around people that I didn’t really matter to. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Years later he’d stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I gazed around at all of the books lining their walls’ bookshelves. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when he held up a book, Mr. Option’s hands shook with nervousness. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He did not hesitate to speak like that, to his father and his uncle, because the subject was books and scientific knowledge—those things that Rocky had learned to believe in. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There could be no harm in meeting her, getting the book and leaving. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam told me that William S. Burroughs wrote the book when he was on heroin and that I should “go with the flow.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Henry looked up from his books at me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Feral was in his room, looking at his book. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

With the six pennies, the book, the rocks, and the thread, she walked back to town. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you said you lost the book.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She opened the clue without declaring the book, and it read: Where he finished writing this. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I was the kid who threw books at teachers. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever seen this book before?” the magistrate questioned. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He chose a book, wrote the name of it on the pad of paper, thanked Dr. Prince again, and went back to his room. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish Jesse were here, singing and telling bad jokes and going on and on about some stupid book he read.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“It must be an old book,” Mr. Morrison said. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Now then,” said Stuart in a fierce voice, “hold on, my good people, while your Chairman consults the book of rules!” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

My father shook his head, closed the book all the way. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

That was the beginning of all the comings and goings between Narnia and our world, which you can read of in other books. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The book has converted countless thousands to vegetarianism. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

To sit down on a chair and read my books with all my friends at school is my right. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She took the book from his hands and turned off the lamp on the nightstand. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It is a small thing, my princess, but all a poor exile could afford," he said as he laid a small stack of old books before her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Unless they’re the ones who hid this book on Book Scavenger.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Tally dropped the book and dashed for the stairs, leaping a flight at a time until she reached the back exit of the dorm. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He’d explained to her that an Elder was only really required to teach a Care three things—to cook a meal, to swim like a fish, and to read a book. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The book had a cloth cover with several dark stains, and the paper was thick and creamy, soft at the edges. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I continued to read books about animals, especially African animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But bring in the ink and the book and I’ll let you write down her name.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leap out of my chair and fall over a pile of books. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jamie hovers over the table and picks up one of the books, flipping through the pages casually. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Some of the books were placed face down, open, as though Master had not yet finished reading them but had hastily gone on to another. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Finish this story while I set my heel,” said Jo, handing him the book. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I’m going to need to go and see if Mr. Hughes’ picture’s been hanging upstairs the whole time I been downstairs reading his books. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

No one else visits the room until Ms. Tannenbaum comes back, balancing a huge stack of books and an apple on top. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was buried in a box, just where he’d left it, between the pages of a book on boatmanship he’d been given on his thirteenth birthday. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure what else can be said about this book that hasn’t already been said. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The actual book is so much better than that. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I never would have thought of using the colors of book spines and covers to make a picture, like art.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The shop was nothing but shelves and shelves of books, hundreds, perhaps thousands of books. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

People began moving around us, hefting their books and packs. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Oh, really, and what book would that be, Nicholas? Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Liz pulled a pen out of her coat pocket and began to write on the front leaf of the book. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Details such as food, drink, a change of clothing, a place to sleep, and needing more than the seventeen dollars squirreled away in the zipper pouch of his book bag. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He liked digging through the bins of used bookstores to buy sci-fi and classic literature; he liked books, holding them and turning their pages. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I restack picture books and place the toys back in wooden bins while she sweeps for cookie crumbs, egg splots, cracklings of hard candy. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was about to slip out the side door when something caught her eye: my dad’s book. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Descartes tried to find this poem in the book, but the book and the stranger disappeared. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“My book—” “Better to leave it. It’s too heavy.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Every form of medication in the book. Mom, too. And then me, with the pot...when you come right down to it, there isn’t anybody in the household who isn’t seriously drugged except the fish.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She put down her book and looked Lyddie straight in the face. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s right there in the pages of every book Bembry hands to me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I embarked on this book, I naively assumed that Volpe’s actors would probably be among the top students at their not-so-great high school, high achievers across the board. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Oliver, who was nine years old and wise to the ways of the world, put down his book and squinted. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe my teachers could write you little notes in my agenda book. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t trust books in his study of anthropology; he wanted to hear what locals had to say about their lives. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He runs his fingers over the paper edges of his book. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Sorry. Um. It’s my homework. For school. And a book. And my medicine.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

How was that soccer book I loaned you, Nick? Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I put on my new hat and sat down and started reading that book Out of Africa. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, if we cannot find a ship, and you will not let us ride, we had as well book passage back to Dome.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The man who had walked on the moon placed his hand on Hugh's shoulder and offered to sign his autograph book. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Grimacing, I lean the pool cue against the wall, and bolt for the stairwell as Will books it in the opposite direction, back to our floor. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The comic books pile up under his bed, stacks and stacks of them, but he seldom reads them any more when the other boys aren’t around. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘But quite long, I should think. We can have many a good talk. What about helping me with my book, and making a start on the next? Have you thought of an ending?’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

My sister dug through her backpack and took out a bottle of Gatorade, some bug spray, a Lemony Snicket book, and a flashlight. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?” asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book box out of the house. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When he glanced at her magazine, she wished she had brought out the Esiaba Irobi book of poems that she planned to read on the train back. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In my own case, once I heard of the “glorious history of the black man,” I took special pains to hunt in the library for books that would inform me on details about black history. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles did not address the origin of the human species in this book. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hornet put her book aside and leaned over the desk. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were older, hard-time prisoners close to parole, and their detail was to come and clean the cells and circulate books and magazines for you to read. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But at school the next day, I manage to keep mine in my book bag all morning. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The boy felt sorry for the Englishman’s camel, loaded down as he was with the cases of books. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our people had lived off the land and counted on cotton-picking and hoeing and chopping seasons to bring in the cash needed to buy shoes, clothes, books and light farm equipment. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even read quite a few books of poetry and got to like it pretty well. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got a good book. Hatchet. Leo gave it to me. Want to borrow it?” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“No, actually, I cannot. But if there’s a pile of books to be found she’s usually not far off. The girl really should be minding her tutors instead of always running off to read.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She closed the book, one thin finger holding her place. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I read with my watch upon the table, purposing to close my book at eleven o’clock. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Faber held his hand over his left coat-pocket and spoke these words gently, and Montag knew if he reached out, he might pull a book of poetry from the man's coat. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the restaurant manager didn’t ask any questions, and if he thought it was ridiculous to have left a book in a restaurant, he didn’t show it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Hanako had the feeling that she was in a book, that she had stepped off the path of real life. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

All except Sunny, whose eyes stayed stuck to her math book. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

A week later I saw in my magic book that Char had received my message. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t have wanted the book in the house. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I have memorized the names of all the books of the Bible, in order, and the Ten Commandments and the Lord’s Prayer, and most of the Beatitudes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I grip the curved pages, bending my book open too far. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He was reading, with absorbed interest, a tiny, vellum-bound book written in some Near Eastern language. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“But nothing really changed for Mabel until the day she found a book in the street. She always said it had fallen from someone’s bag, although if you ask me, I think she stole it! ” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“His parents were friends With Jeanine Matthews’s parents, before they died. Your father and Jeanine used to play together as children. I used to watch them pass books back and forth at school.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He heard kids whispering in the seat behind him, followed by a hasty gathering of books and backpacks. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A librarian recommended some John R. Tunis books, mostly about baseball, which I liked. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

How were they going to return all the missing books if they didn’t even know what books were missing? Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

On the front of the book, Estha had rubbed out his surname with spit, and taken half the paper with it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just about the time poor Valencia was pronounced dead, Lily came into Billy’s and Rumfoord’s room with an armload of books. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women who walked over the “heath” and read morocco-bound books and had two last names divided by a hyphen. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just a book that’s been written on!” said Harry, tugging it out of her grip. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Sketches of his comic book heroes, X-Men, line the walls of his room. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

—We should remind our mothers to be prompt in buying us books and a uniform and other school paraphernalia. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with feedback in hand, I revise each chapter twice more before circling back and giving the entire book at least two complete passes of polishing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Lydia rummaged through her bag for her book and their markers. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Almost no new furniture, two bedrooms turned into the familiar shambles of clothes and books, not the slightest domestic touch in the apartment. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If my eyes could shoot out fatal rays like the ones in comic books I would incinerate her on the spot. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

To write my essay I had to read books differently, without giving myself over to either fear or adoration. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Charles watched as in drawing rooms and scientific clubs all over the British Empire, in newspapers and journals around the English-speaking world, people argued about the book. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he needed a spell or to know an ingredient, he could have asked me to see the book. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She shined the flashlight around the room again, letting its light play on old paintings, books, an ornate carved marble fireplace. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Oh! They read him like a Stephen King book at midnight on Halloween, Kevin!” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Finally, I just put a whole bunch of seeds out and went to sit in the shade and read my new book. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

It is why Sir Thomas Malory called his very long book the Death of Arthur. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee said, “You’ll find a book for each year and receipted bills for everything. You wanted to know how you stood. Here it is—all of it. Do you really think you’ll move?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s the reason I like puzzles and mysteries so much. Crossword puzzles, riddle books, strategy games—you name it, she bought it. Every birthday. Every Christmas.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Kneeling beside the bed, I moved my books aside and reached for the box. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was a big book with plain red leather covers; its tall pages were now almost filled. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Demonstrate the patience and prudence which you have heretofore been lacking,” Lorren said flatly, then looked down at the book that lay open on his desk. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the study, she would stand and hold a book for a long time without even opening it. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He was level-eyed and calm and had a book tucked under his arm. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They went up to the dormitory to fetch their books and charts, to find Neville there alone, sitting on his bed, reading. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And she tossed the book next to me on the couch and went back to the kitchen. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered if that lazy eye made it difficult for Hollister to read, and if so, how torturous that would be, surrounded by books all the time. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The scholarship I had paid for books and school fees. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He performs his chores as quickly as possible, packs an apple in his bag along with his book, and heads off to his tree. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I mean I saw him in the book.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

If my life were a book and you read it backward, nothing would change. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mom would bring home boxes that white people had donated—picture books, chapter books, any book she could get her hands on. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Henry glanced up and nodded, then went back to his book. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Alexis de Tocqueville is famous for his seminal book Democracy in America, but what is less well known is his original purpose in coming to the United States. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His final prize to her, James, and Matthew would be inside the book. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He grabbed her hair with his left hand and stretched toward the shelf without straightening and pulled out the book. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Jake opened the first book and, like a high-powered copy machine that drank way too much coffee, flipped through the pages in a flash. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Neither is exactly in my top five desert-island books, but I guess I wasn’t discerning when shoving stuff into my duffel. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I heard the radio in the kitchen as I opened the door, quickly put my books in my room, and joined them. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In one she was holding open the door for a young woman carrying a stack of books. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In third period, I hook my bag over my chair and take out my calculus book. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On that day she asked the librarian to recommend a book. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why in blue blazes a misplaced book couldn’t wait until morning I don’t pretend to understand! The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Sassur disappeared into his room and took down the book of Tagore’s poems, but each time I looked into the room, I saw that no page had been turned. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Beside him on the desk lay an open copy of Walt Whitman’s famous book of poems Leaves of Grass. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It seemed crazy that I have to still read my books like nothing happened," she says, folding and unfolding a sheet of paper towel. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

This new community had a physical manifestation in the catalogues of the Frankfurt book fair, which, as we have seen, began in 1564. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She took the book out from under Mo's jacket and leafed through it until she found Fenoglio's sheet of paper still among the pages. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And she nodded because she’s read more books in nine years than most people read in a lifetime and I said Well, as long as we’re together that’s what we are. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up a large book, an old photo album, and held it on her lap. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I did,” I said, grabbing my history book from my locker and stuffing it into my backpack. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Professor Flitwick, the Charms teacher, was a tiny little wizard who had to stand on a pile of books to see over his desk. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I went to work filling a book order, annoyed that Valencia took such great pleasure in pretending to be poor. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She turned the book so the cover faced me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know anything that I haven’t seen from a seat in the audience or read in a book. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

And, this thought acknowledged, I began pulling books off the shelf and hurling them into my pile. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Jo’s book was the pride of her heart, and was regarded by her family as a literary sprout of great promise. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the time I wished I was as smart as these teachers thought I was because if I had been I would have dropped that book and run all the way home. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They shared the same books, but when it came time to analyze what they had read, their opinions were different. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stalked away between the lofty shelves and returned several minutes later carrying a large and moldy-looking book. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I got it over with and took the mimeographed letter out of my book bag. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I guess they found it in a library book,” Piper says. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put God back in—in the last sentence of the book. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily clicked on the “About the Author” link for the book. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She looked back at the bed, which was littered with books she wasn’t going to read tonight. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And then she made me stand up on a box of books and point. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You got shelves and shelves of history books, Steve. Sociology. Race and politics. How come you still think racism's in the past?" How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The morning sunlight was already filtering through the cracks of the shutters, but it was as silent in the big house as if even the books on the shelves were sleeping. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Those books are sixty years old and full of inaccurate science.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The book was hiding in the dark space under his desk. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

We tore into books that were designated for advanced placement classes. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He made me promise that when I start learning college subjects in a couple of weeks I won’t read any books on psychology—that is, until he gives me permission. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lives in books often look like a completed jigsaw puzzle. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Usually you had to browse through the entire library to make sure you’d found all the books on one subject. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I felt that at any moment I might start, my head on a pile of books at my desk, and find myself in a darkening room, alone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Here my father put down the book and held up all his fingers. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

While one group finished checking the house, another continued throwing books out the window. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver and I were annoyed: we had been called back from another country, and all he gave us were signed copies of his book? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, he looked at the book still lying on Meggie’s lap. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He would drink his coffee, go through lesson plans, or sometimes just read a book. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The only thing that disappointed him was that the series didn’t contain a book by Ayn Rand. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Or the boy who's into his books all day—all he really wants is to be “with it,” so when he gets the opportunity he’s going to do all kinds of bad stuff. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tries to think the way she imagines Marco might have as he wrote it, picturing him inscribing each page, rendering the delicate ink branches of the tree that winds throughout the book. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The only thing hard about it was the fact that he had me read the book so long ago, and it was difficult to remember. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And I feel kinda dumb about it—it’s just an old book—but I also can’t seem to let it go. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Locke’s bedroom is messy—books and clothes scattered on divans and low couches. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Every family I’ve ever met up here has at least one relative in the penitentiary,” a character in the book remarks forebodingly as they drive up. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The first sentence in the book did not seem to contain any. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he wrote it on her book anyway. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Each week, Welles and Houseman chose a book to adapt for their broadcast. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

As I held the book behind my head so he could not get it, something boiled up inside me and I grabbed the back of his head and yanked his hair. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

So Grandma fixed him a quick ham sandwich and left him in the kitchen while she disappeared to her bedroom, where she started flipping through the book she was always flipping through. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Sitting up in bed, Harry turned the book sideways so as to examine more closely the scribbled instructions for a spell that seemed to have caused the Prince some trouble. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Nat was still working on surveying when he got his first glimpse at an algebra book. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bridge and Tab were standing outside Tab’s apartment door, Tab feeling for her keys in her book bag, when the door was wrenched open from the inside. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The books were his, and they were all that was his. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don’t count—I mean something with print in it.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed my composition book back on his desk and looked at me curiously, sucking at his pipe. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this point, because of reading comic books, my English had improved to a level where I could read simple sentences. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sold a mix of used and new books. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Meggie was given the room with the bed that was much too big for her, and which still had her book box standing under it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I set my books down on my desk. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The final clasp unlatched and she opened the book. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She was in the fiction section, removing a book from the D's. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Dr. Zinchenko? Don’t we have two dozen copies of that book?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t hand over the book until they let us see your father, understand?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Each one advertises a specific category of books. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She and Thorn had finally finished the new Witches of Heartbreak Cove, and they were going to her house to eat pineapple-jam cake and talk about the book. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was a little too drifty in school so she thought it was a good idea that I read more books, and she knew I liked history and adventure stories. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I put my books under my shirt, took off my shoes, and ran from tree to tree. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I see a certain green book sitting there and panic. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

"You ought to write a book on wines, count," I said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

My reclamation would be accomplished, like Malcolm’s, through books, through my own study and exploration. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

One book that I returned to many times was Tolstoy’s great work, War and Peace. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy skipped to the end of the book, where the hero mingled with the people who were taking Jesus down from the cross. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

More or less 120 minutes long distance at $1.35 per first three minutes plus thirteen for the books plus probably ten for Charley’s taxi plus probably sixty for his time came to...? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A boy was sitting on top of the gray blankets, his legs stretched out in front of him, holding a book. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“A pioneer of modern American photography,” one book called her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s not like I was reading books or anything. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He blew on it to dry the ink, then closed the book and folded his glasses. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got some new books on agriculture—farming, gardening, fertilizing, things like that—and we’re studying them. It’s part of the Plan.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Each page of her caterpillar book featured one or two caterpillars, clearly showing every stage of their development. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I work at Nsukka University and I have traveled throughout the Eastern region. I’m writing a book about the area. And my fiancée is from Umunnachi, not too far from you.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Great disorderly piles of books were heaped so high that Elinor could hardly make her way through the ruins. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” I say, and it’s not for the book. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Each moment of the night recounted itself in his mind, blurring together like pages in a book; one in particular stayed dog-eared. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Of course, this book was written in Gnommish, the fairy language, and would be of no use to any human. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I hug the book to my chest tight, so tight, wanting to jump inside it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He bought every available book on bacteria and began sending for magazines that printed articles of a mildly scientific nature. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Typical of the criticism is what Alfred Sewell wrote in his book The Great Calamity. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

A little later he brought her three books, but the one he had been covering with brown paper wasn’t one of them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Travis had a pretty good idea of the sort of book he was holding. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

People began to write books and articles about her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Reilly put her finger to her lips to indicate that the book must forever be a secret. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess the evil school shooters didn’t listen in English class because they did not Get the meaning of that book at all. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could read by the fire with a mending basket nearby to slip the book into should Madam approach. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were almost all books for grown-ups: a well-worn thriller, a book about snakes, another about Alexander the Great, the Odyssey. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Two of his books were signed by Oscar Wilde. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put away the breakfast tray and rinsed out the milk saucer before slipping into the library to get a book. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I gathered my books, wishing, not for the first time, that I could turn invisible. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She glanced at it, placed it on a pile of papers on her desk, and picked up a book. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Murder and a big art book—Never something,” he muttered to Petra when he returned. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken her several tries to get the letters of her name to resemble the sample letters in the book, and even then she wasn’t sure if she’d written Mira or Mara. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t even trying to go for the book. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The book did suggest that a raccoon had tastes more nearly like ours. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You and the girl alike—you both ought to be burned like those accursed books, and her father, too.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But then she ran over to Victor's shelf and stuffed a few books under, her pullover. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. I didn’t do anything. I used your book.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe a book of those rules you give me and JB before each of our games. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Everywhere on the floor, piles of books leaned into each other. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She opens up the book to regard the streets and the landmarks she once knew. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Always talking about books and how great they are. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

There were books on the tables too, and there were shelves filled not with pans and dishes, but with books. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mundín followed me through a path in the hedges and then lingered by my side as I sat on a patio lawn chair pretending great interest in my book. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Yet, a strange feeling, as irrational as Basta's good-luck charms, had driven him out: a feeling that he could protect the book just by his presence. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were no more speeches due, and the stuff in the book was all obvious stuff, like how you should look your prospective employer in the eye at a job interview. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The following week, after class, I showed the book to my teacher and pointed to the chapter on the Hazaras. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The blue bookcase on the bottom holds my favorite books that I could never get myself to purge when I did my monthly book donations to the teen health clinic down the block. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The last book she found was about the history of spire fighting. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The moms are sitting on the couch, jumping up every few minutes to pull a favorite book off the shelves, laughing and impressing each other with their deep mutual love of literature. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we pulled in for our stop in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the bus driver refused to let me retrieve my other books from my suitcase, no matter how politely I asked. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He was six years old, and he was reading a tattered book about Pedro el Conejo, who got trapped in Senor MacGregor’s garden. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We loved our sports pavilion, maybe because it reminded us of those sweet little cottages people always had in picture books when we were young. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most likely Eratosthenes would have booked passage on something far more modest. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The old man's expression was no longer quite so forbidding as he inspected Mo. “How extraordinary. You must be really keen on the book,” he murmured. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They felt sorry for us so they sent us comic books to take on the airplane with us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled—her heart skipping a beat—and then looked at the books on the table. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She says, I know what he likes in the fishing department, and chooses a book called In Search of the Irish Salmon by Brigadier General Hugh Colton. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She had been so good to me, getting me the book and all, that I wanted to please her. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Celia asks, moving piles of books so they can sit on the violet benches but the twins both remain where they are. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She moved closer and she saw that the book was from the Bakersfield public library and it was called Understanding Vietnamese Customs and Traditions. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The book was leather-bound with iron hinges, and large enough to eat your supper off. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In 1907, Alfred Russel Wallace, co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection, was asked to review one of Lowell’s books. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s wishing Jackson, Mississippi, was interesting enough to write a whole book on, and even though it is Jackson ... well, he doesn’t know that. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I closed the book and helped Mr. Ram turn his walker to face the right way to go through the doors. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

At last he muttered in disgust, slammed the book shut, and went to Prince’s cabin. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soak the linen cupboards, the towels, the floors, the books, and the beds. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

If she catches me looking bored, she grabs a book and shoves it in my face and says I have to read twenty pages, and then if I want to stop, I can. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I close the book and take out my schoolbooks. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

After Petra’s revealing book was published, Spassky was very upset, primarily because he didn’t want the woman or her book to come between him and Bobby and ruin their good relationship. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Banks knew I was a bit wasted and it was apparent she was prepared to tolerate it, especially since she’d booked me up. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I sit at my desk now, surrounded by versions of paragraphs and pages of this book, considering that question. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he smiled, he resembled a turtle from a children’s picture book. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The children, two boys, were entered on the books at Groton when they were infants. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I took the physics book back to my dormitory. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

As she approached, Briony put away her pen and covered her sentence with the corner of a book. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Words from the books curl around each other make little sense until I read them again and again, the story settling into memory. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The only place there weren’t books was in one corner, where there were some large, comfortable-looking chairs and a wooden table with lamps hanging over them, perfect for reading. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She went to her own room and got weapon and book, though not a novel but a textbook. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So strongly endorsed is this view of Native Americans that checklists exist to judge whether books correctly depict their environmental values. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“So remember that. A lot of times those little facts get smudged out of the history books. If you gon’ tell a story, you better be sure you’re telling the right one.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Well, we fell on those books with even more appetite than on the food, and in the end, we moved into the house and stayed all winter. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Frantically, I riffled the pages of my book, hoping to be vouchsafed a map. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter what the book or the legends said. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“If you still want those musty old books, you’re too late — I burned them.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I love this book,” she said, stroking the cloth cover that was so much fancier than the $2 paperback she'd had. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

His gaze rolled over my desk, cleared of any books or magazines. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

To each of them, with his or her ticket, the booking clerk pushed over a little cardboard pillbox. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s fine. I’ll bring my math book. I know you really want to do this class.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, they don’t sit around reading stargazer books and eating Christmas cookies. They fly someplace exotic. On their parents’ private jet. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe Mr. Morrison was busy in his room, writing his book. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“A physics book, I suppose,” he said stiffly. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He knows books and literary history incredibly well—I always forget that not all book people are good people.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When I was spending lots of time in Central Park instead of going to school, I would read three or four books a week. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

For some reason, I never quite liked the book. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, all too soon, the book was done. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

My minimal coverage of Japan in previous editions of Guns, Germs, and Steel constituted the most important geographic lacuna of my book. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every day for the past couple of weeks, my parents have been dropping hints that I should make friends, find something useful to do, form a book club. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Jacob swam through the crowd, his arms overflowing with books, trying not to trip, trying to see. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Clues hidden in a book that led to buried treasure? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes,” said Mr. Popper respectfully, “I have read books about both your Arctic and your Antarctic expeditions.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the floor beside his bed a book lay open; Harry had been reading it before he fell asleep last night. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I take the book and set it to the side, facing him. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

After severing my ties with gangs, I had more time for my studies and books. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put the first edition of Jane Eyre back on the shelf, and slid all three books in carefully because I guess it was all-fired important. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But what Aristotle is attempting is a basic taxonomy of forms of argument: and like so much in his book, those forms are so familiar to us that we have long ceased to notice them. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I can’t find a way to make my mouth ask for directions to Wabash Street, so I nod and walk along behind her into sunlit silence and shelves and shelves of books. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

When we picture the place, we tend to think of it in modern terms: a dedicated building full of racks of books, in this case papyrus rolls. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Logically, I knew that loving books and writing did not make me homosexual, but more and more I hid those interests. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Dozens of books, cartoons, movies, and miniseries have attempted to tell the story of everything that happened next, but every single one of them got it wrong. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The project she had in mind was a book about Shakespeare and ciphers, like the one she had started during World War I. And Riverbank would be part of the story. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was a nice guy, and his apartment was filled with books, so I figured he was interesting, too. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She let the phone book swing back on its chain and fished in her pocket for another dime. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So that means my mother was bom an Adams and she was still an Adams when she wrote her name in that book. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was not a particularly large book and not especially fat. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But I’m positive that he still knows it’s me, Merci, and that he likes this book. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He read books to find new ideas for his classes, visited with colleagues, kept up with old students, wrote letters to distant friends. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or a tomb. An igloo is round but your books are square, not curved. Do you need glasses?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I took the book upstairs and hid it in my underwear drawer. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time, Jack noticed that I. was holding the play book. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of leaving, Trevor sat down on the other side of the steps and took a book out of his cargo shorts pocket—The Golden Compass. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Though it was the oldest and most shameless trick in the book, he reached over her and put his hand on top of the one that gripped the cue. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There are US flags and a Puerto Rican flag with a sideways triangle and one star in it, like in the book I looked at. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Someday, when he was good enough, he would ask her to write them in a book and let him do all the pictures. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

If normal sex was a great mystery in the neighborhood, criminal sex was an open book. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But a great many of the signatures of the book are already printed.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crept out of the box that Mo had made her and jumped from the pages of her favorite books. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Pencil tips whisper against paper all around me, a gentle contrast to the coarse rip of my book bag’s zipper, the obnoxious clacking of its buckles. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

On one of my rare visits to school a teacher who taken an interest in me gave me a book by André Gide and asked what I had been reading. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mostly the book described the dangers of fire. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Sokoloff penthouse was dramatic and modern but cluttered with piles of books, magazines, and keepsakes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Seven and I are reverse HP fans—we liked the movies first, then the books. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She picked her book up and continued to read, never once looking up. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

With his free hand he reaches in his book bag and hunts around for a pencil. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast!’” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Emily trailed her fingers along the varied book spines and thought about young Garrison Griswold, freshly moved to San Francisco, and how this bookstore and its owner had been an inspiration to him. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

If Ivy weren’t feeling so rotten, she would’ve marveled over the gauzy canopy draped over the bed and how all June’s books were organized by color. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Pacioli is teaching from Euclid, and a copy of one of his own books on mathematics is in the right foreground. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A moment later Dina emerges with a book in her hand. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I was too excited and threw my book across the room. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I’m way too old for that book,” I said, even though it was the first thing I’d put in my keepsakes bag. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Barber walked by my desk holding his coffee, he opened my book and flipped through the pages, which were perfect. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Is it a drawing book? Maybe a new pistol?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As a book it's utterly brill but a bit bleak. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I suddenly realized it was my father who all along had been suggesting books for Danny to read. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“He’s a publisher! He’s going to have books on him. We were told to look for an old book. A really old book.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I looked over my shoulder and snorted at the gold-and-black book bag I was now wearing, with golden zippers and a faint hum rippling through it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Clues and riddles could take you only so far, like how the clue for the book she and James first hunted took them to the pier at the Ferry Building. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I offered to help her but instead she just held the book up to her lips and blew on the bottom edge of the page and flipped it over with the strength of her breath. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In a library book on African public health, before we left home, I found a drawing of a worm as thin as a hair meandering across the front of a man’s startled eyeball. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She plants a kiss on my head, then goes upstairs to find a recipe from some old book. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t make it today, but he will stop by tomorrow, she says, handing you a book called All the Broken Pieces. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She remembers how he sat and paged through that book of Etienne’s. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

For years, we were not permitted to receive funds except from our families, so that poor prisoners rarely had money for books or tuition. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flowers, candles, stuffed animals, and cards were in the pile, but more than any other item, there were books. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He wanted her to scream or laugh or cry or kick or sling a book bag. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Javier was already back to his book, but Ana was looking at me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He worked extra quickly on shelving the picture books and returned to the front desk. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

A bookshelf packed with hardcover books, with an entire shelf of comics in plastic sleeves. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

So he purchased a book on trigonometry but soon found himself unable to follow the geometrical arguments. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so absorbed in the book, I didn’t notice the Doctorita until she was standing above me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reality of this is that just like in the book, not everybody works the same or cares the same. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Akimi Hughes? Are you one of those people who read the last chapter of a book first to see how it ends?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t bode well for how useful that book is going to be. Anything else?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There were books piled on every seating option, so she sat on the floor, not bothering to take off her backpack, and put her head between her knees. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“No, no, no. If you’re going to dress a book up like a sourdough loaf, you need to make it look more convincing than that. Hold on.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“The best thing to do is just give us the book. We know you have it.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I need to ask you a question, sir. I need to find out information about something. Do you have books about the movies?” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

My father used to send her some money for clothes, food, and books. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Which means his old books and video games remind him of grief and loss and of not living up to Matt’s legacy. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

If he kept repeating, “She felt guilty, she felt guilty, she felt guilty,” it would be a boring book and no one would buy it. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I think you’ll enjoy it. You can read it for your book report.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The Devon School record books contained a mistake, a lie, and nobody knew it but Finny and me. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “I see you play ball as well as you read books, Danny. I hope you are not as violent with a book as you are with a baseball.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He could have taken the book by himself, but I wanted a closer look at Lissa’s room. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Emily was about to tell him it wasn’t impossible and in fact had happened many times over in the book she was reading when her dad said, “Thought you’d be interested in this.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Whenever the town library had a new book about the Arctic or the Antarctic—the North Pole or the South Pole—Mr. Popper was the first to borrow it. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only essay writer not with the group was Sierra Russell, who, Kyle figured, was off looking for another book to read. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Fairly often. Ever since you brought that book in my shop, actually.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The hefty ledger books waited on a huge wooden bookshelf that took up the far wall of the dim room. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He swept the floor with his jacket and lay down, using the book he had just finished reading as a pillow. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He later wrote his own book about his adventures with John Wilkes Booth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The librarian won’t let you take the Physicians’ Desk Reference home even if you hide it in the middle of thirty-two books. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had seen the same smile in the room lately, as he read the book that had changed him from a Jew to a Lutheran. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

"We have the book, but we won't give it to Capricorn unless he lets my father go." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She reached under the desk and pulled out another thick book called Standard Highway Mileage Guide and turned to a page that had a million numbers and city names on it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

That I wanted to throw the book—no better than kindling—into the fireplace? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Outside, Elena is on the same spot of the bench, flipping to the next page in her book. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Today’s two competitions will both be centered on books.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

This can take a while and involves chemicals so you may want to have a book hand. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Her hands seemed like the hands of a stranger as she leafed through the pages of the book. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I stood by the door, arms laden with books, my winter coat still on, too terrified to move. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She wondered what kind of funeral she would have: old Mrs. Duff would sit up all night and make people sign a book. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Of course, writing book reports is not exactly the kind of writing I want to do. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve been to her house twice since I mailed the package to New York, both times to trade out her library books. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I find pretty fabric shoulder bags for the twins and Granddad insists on buying me a book of fairy tales at the Edgartown bookshop. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The ship’s boy was older than he was in the book, but he had the same black curls, the same wide-set puppy-dog eyes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I bet the same kids who stole my bike took my bear and my book. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She was ignoring her mother, and she was also reading a comic book entitled The Illuminated Adventures of the Amazing Incandesto! Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Moving stiffly, Fela got up from the desk, gathered up the book she’d been trying to read, and headed into Tomes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

William replaced the books, said farewell to the abbot, and then to his dear Brother Jerome. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The valuable things were books and records, surgical instruments and optical glass and such things that a practical working burglar wouldn’t look at twice. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I did a lot to get onto your schedule. After your latest feat at court, my attendant said you were booked for ten months straight." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I was eating a steak dinner, my book propped against a sugar shaker, entirely content, when I glanced up to find Katz stalking towards me across the restaurant, looking alarmed and furtive. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The next book was called How to Repair Furniture. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Sharpe looked in the date book weeks later, she saw 1212 scribbled hurriedly, in his handwriting, on the day of his death. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Meggie’s father wanted to keep Inkheart safe from this Capricorn. So why bring the book here to me? He was practically running into Capricorn’s arms!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the corner of his bunk, reading a black-bound book with a cross on the cover. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m grateful for the book, of course. I can definitely let you go free, son of Mars. But I have a long-standing problem with Hades. After all, I owe my godly powers to Demeter!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"Have you any notion of where Nick is likely to take the book?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Life in here is nothing like my life before, but I still get to read books, exercise, and watch TV. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He was holding the book in his right hand. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her mom’s car is kind of old, and the trunk is filled with books and stacks of papers. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“But, yes, that seems to be the case. Ella has a perfect memory. She loves books. Somewhere, somehow, she read your Roman book of prophecies. Now she’s the only source for them.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Away from the book I imagined myself to be Goriot, toiling away just beyond the edges of a world he could not enter. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I saw Hamlet enter, a large book in his hand. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The book was there because his beloved librarian gave it to the old fool when he was the same age as all the library lock-in contestants. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

My sister has been reading all these books about women ever since she told her ex-boyfriend that the pregnancy was a false alarm, and he wanted to get back together, and she said no. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

This book is about my experiences as a black child growing up in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the 1940s and '50s under the umbrella of the rules and traditions of my oppressors. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He had three sports books from the library open in front of him—one on football and two on tennis. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dimple sat on the edge of her bed, staring at her suitcase and pillow and her lone box of books. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When the bell rang, she gathered up her books and made for the door. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There are no such books in Saybrook. In Boston, perhaps. But the proper use of reading is to improve our sinful nature, and to fill our minds with God’s holy word.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Declared books are flagged for all users to see, alerting every book sleuth to the hidden book that is now worth double points. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Not that book, Mo. But Mo had already picked up another book: Tales From the Thousand and One Nights. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Over years, I’d watched him inhale books, newspapers, and ideas, sparking to life anytime he spoke with someone who offered a shard of new experience or knowledge. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But this was, as I say, back in the thirties, when as I understand, Mrs Symons's books were being admired in houses up and down the country. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty years later he wore the same thick glasses, I’d never seen a whiter shirt, he had a hard time letting go of books, I went up to him. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

If you guessed that Freak has been reading a book about the Ice Age, you're right. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

And Charles’s book was, after all, an argument against the concept of God as creator that Paley had espoused. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hid my books in a bag in our guest room, where it seemed safest, and whispered some Quranic verses over the books to protect them. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was fascinating to me to see the small changes in language and phrasing from one book to the next. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Children pulled color from coloring books with crayons, and mothers who had lost children mended their black clothing with scissors. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She handed me her books and took my arm. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In my book was a picture of a tree. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Don’t get yom> hopes up too high. This isn’t a storybook or a history book, either. It’s dull, very dull. I warn you that you’ll have to dig to get anything out of it.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, says the librarian, he reads hundreds of books about English officers fishing in Ireland. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He clearly didn’t know about my grudge book. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I want to get in the history books myself. But I don’t think this is the right route, exactly.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“For which she will one day thank us when she dedicates her first book to the Marysville Free Public Library.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Nobody writes about Miss Teen Dreamers in history books,” Adina scoffed. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was not until he wrote this book that he used the word evolution to describe how species change. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put aside books and notebooks and nearly all my spare clothes, and tried lots of different combinations, but every time I finished I would turn to find something large and important left over. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She still don’t move so I sigh and pick up the book and take it over to her and shine the flashlight on the page. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I strongly suspect you wrote it in the book.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He opened it, swapped out books and stuck his head in his locker for a moment to take a few deep breaths to get himself together. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Call it aspirational,” says Tao, going back to his book, which looks to be about beetles. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I tell you what. If you want these books, I’ll sell them to you for just what I paid for them at the auction: one hundred and fifty-eight pounds and ten shillings.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right there in front of him was the “struggle for existence” that he was writing about in his book. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Jabati sat on the verandah of his house and read a book. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

"Jitterbug dancing. Verboten. Reading un-German books. Singing un-German songs. Staying out past the ten o'clock curfew. Criticizing Adolf Hitler or the war. Verboten. Verboten. Verboten." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

They chatted some, but mostly they drank, and I drifted out of the conversation and ended up squinting through the dark, looking at the book spines in Alaska’s Life Library. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She thinks the book’s a relic from when weepy gang boys bonded over Gone with the Wind, but she quiets herself when she sees how much it’s affecting him. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I am allowed to check out thirty-five books and can visit the library every two weeks. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He had eaten only half a box of old Red Hots that had lost their zing, and a pack of stale and crumbly peanut butter crackers nearly forgotten in his book bag. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

And I wanted to write books about them. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“See you later, alligator,” she said, which left me half-frozen long enough to notice that she had left her book of poems on the mailbox. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We carted everything we had from town to town by bus—clothes, books, hats, and these huge quilts my mother had brought from Europe. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered reading something about junk food in one of the books in the attic and asking his mother about it. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The book was later confiscated by the German army, and it was eventually found in the basement of a castle in Germany by American soldiers in 1945, just before the Nazi surrender. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She opened up the phone book, ran her finger down the list of private and Catholic schools, called the schools, found out which ones had scholarships, and drove me up to one. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t seem nearly as immersed in literature as he was, and we wondered if he might be happier with someone who shared his love of books. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I reach one hand through the opening and pick up another book and then another. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He not only recognized me as a tree Muslim, but he gave me two books, one in English, the other in Arabic. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That wasn't a proper answer!” said Meggie, making her way out into the hallway with an armful of books. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

With the Angels dead, Morris Sampson could write another book about them—and probably not get sued. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I was alone—except for the friends I had in my books, like Belle, and Anna. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Lilliput is the name of an island from a book called Gulliver’s Travels. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

From my father I had learned that books were to be either adored or exiled. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I was glad that there were so many books. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At breakfast on Thursday she bored them all stupid with flying tips she’d gotten out of a library book called Quidditch Through the Ages. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It was the first one I’d ever seen that wasn’t in a book or a magazine or on TV. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Palmer opened them: a soccer ball, a book, a pair of sneakers, a Monopoly game. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He did not like anyone to breathe too close to him, shake his hand, ask him personal questions, ask to borrow books, or write him letters. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit in corners, at tables, on dirty couches, and on the front steps, getting lost in the pages of books. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Bringing the book closer to the light, I spot a tiny, golden button. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

So he slipped the book into his bag and walked out as innocent-looking as possible. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I find only Civil War books, maps, and old phone books. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When he thought of someone writing that ugly thing on her book . . . it made him feel like Bill Bixby just before he turned into the Hulk. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The words to every single book my father ever read to me are forever tucked inside. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

In 1936 Hubble produced a popular book called The Realm of the Nebulae, which explained in flattering style his own considerable achievements. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Let’s open it together,” Gabriella says, returning their attention to the book. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The guard looks up from his book and raises his eyebrow at me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

This is not a book about tall trees. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Knowing that every great scientist needed a spark of inspiration, I opened my book 101 Kids’ Super Fun Science Experiments. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He hid the books in the kitchen and moved from the house again to the alley and looked back and the house was still dark and quiet, sleeping. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The book that goes on and on forever,” he murmured, opening it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I was thrilled with what we were doing, as with a discovery, like finding a new place you like, or a good book. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s a copy of the book, hope you like it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe fifth grade will be the year of earmuffs and the second year without a friend who is not a fish or in a book. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“DESTINATION?” shouted the Senses Taker, sitting up again, putting on his eyeshade, taking the pen from behind his ear, and opening his book. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

They weren’t carpenters or masons, and I had to teach them everything from books I bought. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

You sneak your phone out while he’s glued to some book by a guy named Rousseau, who, ironically, according to Wikipedia, is quoted as having said, I hate books. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I tell her I had to read A Modest Proposal from the back of Gulliver’s Travels and she says, That’s all right, ’tis only a children’s book. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Eventually he was going to make his own comic book. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Some of his child geniuses had grown up to publish books and scholarly articles and thrive in business. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The kids got band instruments, sports uniforms, and new books. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the books on the floor that Dad threw there. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully he turned the soft yellow pages of his book, a few delicately tunneled by worms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

What if my parents force me to live in their dirty house without rice or meat or books or a TV? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What if he’s not even there? I can’t imagine him hanging around when his mom’s book club is happening.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Just finish the book. I’ll ruin it if I say more.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Lolo sits with the book in his lap. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was pure fantasy. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He was carrying a book of poems, a sketch pad, and some charcoal pencils. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

When we were packing yesterday, Papa made Amil bring the Mahabharata book and only a few scraps of paper and two pencils. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then he hands me a red book and a pen. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She applied herself to her book but still heard laughing, laughing. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realized the biggest gift she’d given me wasn’t the book—it was something else. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She said that it was too hard to find a book when she couldn’t read the titles. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She pulled out the library books she’d shown him in the library. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She was working to get the book back, to do a good deed, to win the contest, to bring her father home. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Mostly, books used in the U.S. will use standard 5-line staff notation. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

This was a large rectangular room, with walnut paneling, a walnut desk, leather chairs, and walls lined to the ceiling with books. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Casa Marina was already booked up for the next season. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian’s reading the titles on the spines of books on the shelves like he’s going to be tested on it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She took in the patterned tablecloth, red kitchen cabinets, decorative statues, and books that had belonged to the apartment’s previous inhabitant. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Charlie’s got stickers on her shirt and a few books in her hand. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The trouble was, the books we had at Hailsham weren’t at all helpful. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

No doubt that is why none of the books Penelope had brought with her from Swanburne contained the information she sought. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Leo spotted Piper’s knife, an old leather-bound book, a few interesting-looking mechanical devices, and enough gold to give Hazel’s horse a stomachache. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He devoured books even faster than I did; he carried them around with him everywhere. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I didn’t really include the book, I just wanted to type it out once. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There are only a half-dozen people in the car, their faces hidden behind the Globe, or looking down at paperback books, or staring straight through her, at nothing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Certain spells I knew I wrote in my book were missing. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She closes the symbol-filled book she has been reading and places it on a table. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Uncle Pete had been touting these books for a long time, not to mention quoting from them liberally to score points in Sunday debates. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They have stacks of Bonnie’s books on ghost hunters, psychics, and dangerous angels. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Finally, he came out to the living room where I was sorting books into one of the big bookcases. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Looking for another book. I think she’s trying to read the whole library before Christmas.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

That was fine with me—I grabbed my book from the table where I’d left it and setded back to read. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

A stack of mysterious books, in a Near Eastern language which looked like Arabic and bearing the stamp of the Williams College Library, materialized in the back seat of his car. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I really do think I owe the secret of my success to that little book I read long ago called How to Survive 101 Calamities. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s reading self-help books and learning new things about himself and the world. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She had read in a handwriting analysis book that this was the style of the self-assured. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He closed up his grade book, folded his hands and looked at her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out on the floor there was a round table heaped with books. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

That’s why I just picked up my book and walked off. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annie and I walked there together every day, lunch sacks in one hand, book sacks in the other. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

More books than I had ever seen in one place before. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He’d led him to believe they had a better handle on the book situation than they actually did. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There is much more to say on all the issues, but that is beyond the scope of this book, so I will leave it for scholars and experts in the field to address. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I choose a short, squat yellow one from her bookshelf and grab a book of matches from the dresser drawer where I’d seen her stash them. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Ms. Banks settled her load of literature onto a nearby shelf, crossed her arms over her chest and leaned up against the book stack. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I meant to turn around and go back inside, but my hands opened the book almost without meaning to. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But Susan was chatty as they were driven home; she asked if his conversation with the woman had been interesting and hoped he had learned something that would be useful for his book. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If I was in the book—permanently, y’know—and there was a place for me to rest, where I could exist, even after I died...maybe I wouldn’t have to do all this.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Once term had started, they were back to skimming through books for ten minutes during their breaks. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t pick them up, just holds tightly to his communication book. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A book about one of Lady Franklin’s rescue missions, The Voyage of the Fox, was among the nonessential stores and equipment left behind at Ocean Camp. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

But when I pulled out my book and tried to do the first problem, I couldn’t copy it down correctly because my eyes kept filling with tears. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was staring at me now, like I was some character out of a book he had read and I had come to life. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She put down the book and stood up. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the book from Nigel and handed him my own pencil and a piece of paper from my tablet. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

After finishing a few poetry books earlier in the week, I had read my first biography. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I took a slow turn around the shop, admiring the shelves heavy with books, business forms, proclamations from Parliament and General Howe, slates, thick paper, quills, and sealing wax. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, I wanted to hit something when I threw that ancient book. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She would have loved to read aloud to her mother from her own favorite books, but of course she understood why Mo very seldom did so, even now. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Van Dorn is about thirty feet back, holding a book open in one hand and glancing down at it every few steps so she won't look odd for walking so slowly. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But none of Elinor's clever books said a word about martens with horns. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

On the night of May 10, 1933, in many German cities, university students and Storm Troopers carried flaming torches and marched behind trucks and oxcarts filled with banned books. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I could not afford to skip school regularly; and besides, each trip did not yield a book. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all a joke, Karen. I bought this book for a quarter at the Catholic Bazaar and I’ve got to use it or Mom will say it’s a waste of money.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The book of matches had skidded further, near the mast, and he found them only when he’d wasted moments crawling under the table to its other side. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be left alone with Pip, so I shoved the book under the covers with Jesse James, who mewed in protest. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The Delmars had a library—nothing but books in it and paneled in oak. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

All the books seemed to be in Hebrew or Yiddish, and many of them were very old and in their original bindings. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The book was a huge success, but it had one significant flaw. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

If I made her some coffee, it would distract her, and maybe she’d let me get back to my book in peace. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The books under the dust, they were stories. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I got my prayer book out so I can write some things down. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Whoosh, from out of nowhere, she drops three books into my hands. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I pull out a book from Chantal’s shelf to read—something about a brown girl who wants blue eyes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I am not quite next to Jax and Madge, and yet maybe I can say thank you now to her for returning my book. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He stood up and tucked the chess book under his arm. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The answers only seem obvious when you get to the end of the book, when you turn the last page and the puzzle suddenly looks complete. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I thought reading the book would help Epsilon-5 adjust to the new planet.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And if you can replace the word with “there is”, the word is there’s: There’s a surprising amount about the apostrophe in this book. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Calder looked at the book in front of him. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was greatly hampered by his lack of book knowledge and of the knowledge of the meaning of characters written upon a paper with a camel’s hair brush and ink. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

My small bookcase was jammed with books, and there were books in piles all over the small room. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The song was really loud, and as I was stuffing books into my messy locker, I was trying to make out the words. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been trying for two years to read this book, and I never get past these first few pages.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was princely and broad-shouldered, and had nodded off propped up on cushions with a book open on his bare chest. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

James walked his cipher book back to the library cart, reading it until the very last second. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

"Or you'll have to make a book and give me some of it." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

We had met in the United States as he had researched the Nation of Islam for his book, Black Nationalism. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Numbers,” I say, cracking open a book and offering it to her. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a pleasure to see young people interested in books,” she said. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The first book I learned to read was the book. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s been known to happen on occasion. Particularly when I make assumptions about comic book fans,” I said. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

As honored as I am to have received Great-Grampy JonJon’s mitt, all I’ve been able to think about since Daddy closed the trunk is that little brown book I saw inside of it. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I knew that he consumed volumes of political philosophy as if it were beach reading, that he spent all his spare change on books. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Unable to read new English books on a regular basis, I reread the ones I had over and over again, till the pages become dog-eared. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her book was a volume of English history illustrated with a few drawings which she pointed out to me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I'll get a library card tomorrow and carry back my first installment of books. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was relieved to see my book was still dry. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The room was wall-to-wall books, but what really caught my attention were the war toys. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was where I napped in my car seat, where I learned to color between the lines, where I did my homework and read hundreds and hundreds of books, as my mother worked. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She made me read In Our Time, and then I read all his books. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also tried to have the distribution of the book stopped, but with printing having been carried out in Florence, it was already too late. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Beto picked up the small red book Naomi had given him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my book. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Just as a child with no books in his home isn’t likely to test well in school, a boy named DeShawn isn’t likely to do as well in life. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He was fond of books and taught his wife her letters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Figuring they’d have to argue a while, I got a book off the bureau and took it to the little room. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Found it,” said Miguel, reaching up to pull a book off a shelf. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I want to ride in tourneys, hawk and hunt, visit with my mother in Nor- vos, read some of those books my father sends me. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They’re the other two student volunteers who come here on Thursdays to help the librarians process returned materials, reshelve books, and sharpen pencils. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The book that Mr. Daniels gave me to read. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The book Dustfinger was looking for was right at the bottom. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There are only a few Carussos in the phone book, and I eliminate them one by one till I find her. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I went outside, found a secluded spot under a tree, sat in the grass, and read my science book. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

That’s why I was going to send off for that book Leant Karate in Three Weeks that was in the back of my comic books. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She closed the book and smoothed the quilt on her bed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I had a book around my neck, fastened by a clip to my pressure suit, which contained procedures for eighteen different types of rendezvous that I might need. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If my sister was more guarded with secrets until I got older, then I was an open book with Kia. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. Now use the keypad to tell the hover ladder the call number for the book you are interested in and hang on tight.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He put the bug book back under his bed and pulled out the box where he kept the green worm. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I gathered up my books and followed Miss Warren out into the hallway. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a while since she and Matthew had hidden a book together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Hassan went to his shack to get ready and I ran upstairs to grab a book. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He looks at their faces as if he can predict what will become of them, and in one sense he can, since teachers write thorough notations in their students' Party record books. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He turned from me, took up the book and read ten pages or more. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go back and sit with the books. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“You’re not looking, Pudge. When I go into your room, I see a couple of guys who love video games. When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

One book, Famous Short Stories of England and America, which we had used as a textbook in high-school English. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

And then I sat up and pulled out this book. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I piled my books and binders on the table. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes to rest for a moment and thought about the book and Liz and talking. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can't remember the last time I read one of these books,” he said as he walked to the bookshelf and examined the titles. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

This is to become our reading file, in which Margot and I are supposed to note down the books we’ve read, the author and the date. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They were both twelve, and after school he used to carry her book satchel the mile separating the Holcomb school- house from her father’s farm ranch. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was about to ask for an explanation when Granny jumped in excitedly and said, “Remember the games and books I’m always bringing you?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Very well, my love,” said Mr. Popper meekly, and he settled down with his pipe, his globe, and his book of Antarctic Adventures. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

He came home, ate dinner, and disappeared into his room with a lit candle and books and magazines. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

On the night of July 1, Charles Guiteau booked a room at the Riggs House, the same luxury hotel where James Garfield stayed before his inauguration. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a small book and had lost its cover. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks down at the podium, where her book sits. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were lined with shelves crammed with old musty books. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Along with walking and eating and—” He looked around the walls of books. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was planning to read a smaller book for my report. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Now he was slumped over in his seat, an open book cradled in his hands. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Every inch of wall was covered with bookshelves, and every inch on the shelves was packed with books. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Bas ordered that the book in question be passed to him, and when it was, he flipped to the back page, took out a pencil and started writing on it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

First, a ‘waste book’, in which you recorded everything exactly as it happened, in as much detail as possible: you could refer to this in the event of any future dispute or confusion. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When Charles saw Lenny reading it, he said, “I bet you half a crown that you do not get to the end of that book.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Encouraged, he drew some sheets of paper out of a book he was carrying. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, one of them came up to me and slammed my books out of my hand onto the floor. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He softly pushed the book over to me, as Provis stood smoking with his eyes on the fire, and I read in it:— Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Mind you return anything you have borrowed to the correct — what have you been doing to that book, you depraved boy?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“In films and books, children are always getting beaten at school, and then they run away.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Since Elnora allowed me to study this book that so entranced me, I tried to please her by attending chapel services with her. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He wrote magazine essays and articles and a book of short stories. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go. Leave those books there,” she said, walking toward the exit. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I even called mv sister, but of course you’ve got to book her at least a week in advance. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was just starting to feel grateful that he was here when he booked out of here like the devil was chasing him. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Noodles started folding up those pitiful leaves like he folded up his comic book pages. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

A home that was full of books Aru had never cracked open because her mother always read to her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had sat down on the bench near the wire screen and was reading his book. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ben and Radar left soon after we got back to my house, after they’d each looked through the book and not found any obvious clues. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sentimentality about Lee's story grew even as the harder truths of the book took no root. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Naomi let her English book fall into her lap. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’s been saying the same thing over and over since we put her book back in the night table drawer. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Once we’d helped clean and dress his wound, we sat down to examine the book. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I turn on my light and sketch out ideas for Germ—Ask a Parent, book playlists, monthly soundtracks, lists of places where girls like me can get involved. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dealing with irrational people takes focus, intelligence, and extreme discipline—you have to maintain a sense of true emotional stasis—as outlined in one of my favorite books, Transformative Power, by Pearce Tidwell. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

On top of it all, she had lost a ration book and they had to do without sugar for two weeks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I brought back the books with all the names in them. Keeping track of things.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered with affection the girls who had written in her autograph book. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She worked hard at her writing, and she wanted to see her books published. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Light shot from the book, the cover opening on its own and the pages turning rapidly. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s like an actor remaining in character and refusing to leave his dressing room, or a writer refusing to leave his garret after finishing a book. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the age of four, she could read fast and well and she naturally began hankering after books. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He kept the books, hired the attorneys, called the undertaker, and eventually paid the bills. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pull my book out of my backpack and dig in, excited. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Rainy days, I generally sat in a dry place and read a book, often just an axe length away from a ping-pong table. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I am inside my vision of how I’ve always wanted my life to be, living in a gorgeous home with people who like me, who care about me, who laugh with me, who read books. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we’re done, and she goes off in search of other books, I pick up the discarded ones and hunt through the pages until I find the words I’m looking for. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He passed Shadow a book of matches and a plastic ashtray with the Motel America logo on it. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He can't point, but I see the book on the table. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her book had only one story and the one on the table had close to ten. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I never knew how sick she was until that day I tried to show her one of the pictures in the book, a beautiful color picture of the water babies swimming in the sea. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That isn’t the book I think it is, I hope.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She savored the stretch and release of tension in her stiff muscles, and turned the page in the book she was holding aloft. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Grant calls for his order book, a thin volume of yellow paper with carbon sheets. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

As the hours of the evening pass he will grow distracted, anxious to return to his room, to be alone, to read the book he had once forsaken, has abandoned until now. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sat down and balanced a book on his knees, then pulled out his notebook and pencil. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

That one, single missing book might tell Charles who had crawled into the bank and, more importantly, where they had crawled in. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“She must have torn it out of a book.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He had not yet commented on my looking at the books. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy picked up a book at random—a tattered copy of A History of Horseracing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

At three o’clock she started dinner, and only when it was cooking did she take a break, sitting at die kitchen table to consult her dream book on the meaning of her previous night’s dreams. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Melody loves listening to the books on tape.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The best things that the Americans sent us were family books. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say it because every morning since he turned eleven or so he would wake up before anyone else in the house, go out onto the porch, and read a chapter of a book. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

His thesis, “AIDS and Accusation,” won a prize and was published as a book by a university press. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“First thing I’m going to do today is book talk. I will do that a lot this year—tell you all about some of my favorite stories.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I opened my journal and wrote down the name of the book. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“As I said, Basta has told me a strange story—he says you claimed to be the man who wrote a certain book—what was its name again?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Despite the heavy musk of cigarettes, sweat, cleanser, and beer in our room, I could actually smell the sweet paper scent of a book. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t think there were any books on Horcruxes in the library?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She plopped down her books and began talking to Mr. Watch, the man with red suspenders who was usually at the cash register. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Pet looked over from the other end of the room, where it had been reading the spines of a row of books. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

As I jumped up out of my seat, shoving my books roughly in my bag, my uplifted expression must have tipped Jessica off. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Daddy asks, serious, still looking down at the book cover. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Its hard drive was filled with old books, movies, TV show episodes, song files, and nearly every videogame made in the twentieth century. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Now we shall try a new way. You and I will read these pleasant little marchen together, and dig no more in that dry book, that goes in the corner for making us trouble.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

We each are going to choose one of our favorite journal entries and combine them into a classroom book like the letters they’d previously sent to Zlata. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Opening his locker, Ben unpacked his uniform and stared at the new Converse All Stars Bull had bought him, a purchase that had gone unreported to the iron-fisted keeper of the books, Lillian Meecham. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We gather up our books and follow the stream of seniors exiting the hallway. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I wanted to go back to bed with a book. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I want to read a different book. That’s all.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

She had found the book while searching the bookshelves for a trigger to a secret passage. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

As his life moved forward—today he is writing a book about his mother and working as the South Jersey columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer—so did mine. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

To take our next steps, we needed to work the nozzle equations in my book. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The pages of the book are covered with similar markings, though predominantly they hold other things. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When everything is properly organized, he locates a set of suitcases in his adjoining rooms and fills them near to bursting, the large leather-bound book cushioned between stacks of paper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“How do you think you’d get to the Stone without us? I’d better go and look through my books, there might be something useful....” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I picked up a comic book and began to read. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the book I’ll be able to type with my eyes closed. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I stepped off the stool and started walking across the room toward the phone book at the pay phone. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They included preserving the last words of dying people, recording books for blind people to hear, announcing clock time, and teaching spelling. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She threw down her book, rose from the stale comfort of the old brown sofa, and scrambled for the door. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Once inside, she was able to settle her three charges in a corner of the children’s section to watch the packages and flip through books. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The book was, true enough, what might be described as a 'sentimental romance' - one of a number kept in the library, and also in several of the guest bedrooms, for the entertainment of lady visitors. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

They wound their way through the packed bookshelves, taking a detour by the crafts section so Emily could stoop down and check on the Inkheart book. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

So far, she hadn’t learned much: according to one book, Wyrdmarks were an alphabet. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I asked, pointing to the book in his lap. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mom put the book down and wrapped her arms around me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

"The sooner I’m through with Elinor’s books the sooner we can go home again." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

At meals they chide younger children for admiring anything foreign: a British car advertisement, a French picture book. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Some nights, when the light of rocket fire was so bright a person could read a book by it, sleep never came. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I thought she was about to begin the lesson, but she pushed the book away from her on the desk and began to cry. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Leave the small change where it is and sit down again. And you, Silvertongue, open the next book!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In order to read the books, I had to take them with me, hidden in my sari, when I went to wash the clothes in the river. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up from his book, saw her at the bottom of the stairs, and said, “Oh,” as if he suddenly understood. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I put the heavy book inside my bag and zip it up. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the book in her lap. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They could talk from dusk to dawn, arguing about books. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My father told me that night that there had been a serious question in his mind about how ethical it was for him to give Danny books to read behind his father’s back. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I met his nice wife, Mary, to whom I dedicate this book. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I saw the cover of a comic book and thought, Clifton would have known them better than I. He knew them all the time. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the newspaper office, Jethro picked up one of the papers while Ross Milton hunted for his book. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even after three hundred and eighty years, the book smells like home. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I am pretending that I have an American family and this is my family book.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I forgot that I asked Madoc to teach me swordplay and strategy, but after dinner he gives me a stack of military history books from his personal library. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He passes the open book to me, then steps real close so he can shine the flashlight—back in his hand now—on the page. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Some of it is. Some of that book was wrong. I had to correct it.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was a small room, crowded with tottering piles of papers and books, and the whiteboards on the walls were covered in figures and equations. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel went back and sat in her seat in the middle of the bus and got out her book. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“The Count of Monte Cristo. Another great Dumas book. An innocent man is betrayed, accused of treason, imprisoned, and after many long years, escapes. Napoleon, jealous of General Dumas, sent him to jail.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was sure he could learn to read if he had a book. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I took the book back to my room, I was heading to the barn when I heard a horrible noise, almost like a scream, but not human. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The capture of Troy is the subject of the second book of the Aeneid, and it is one of the best, if not the best, story Virgil ever told—concise, pointed, vivid. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew leaped to the front door and swung it open, then turned back to kick a pile of books in Barry and Clyde’s direction. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I told Mary Elizabeth that I was sorry and how much I really loved the e. e. cummings book and wanted to ask her questions about it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then they got to talking about books, and to Jo’s delight, she found that Laurie loved them as well as she did, and had read even more than herself. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like showing Ruthie the books I take out of the library. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s a good question, though,” she said as she took out another book. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It is a different book, back to front, and you can learn new things from it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness—and love. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Your father's going to give the old witch that book, right?" he whispered. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the book, the old lady hangs empty bottles from a tree to remind her of all her mistakes. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

So, I said, “Just think on it some, and if you see the answer or find it in a book, let me know.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of the day when her father had refused to buy her a book, Matilda set out all by herself to walk to the public library in the village. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Part of that book, part of it, quick now, quick, before it gets away, before the shock wears off, before the wind dies. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a book died, there was nothing to be done about it. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In our house each school year would begin with my mother’s careful instruction: ‘Don’t write in your books so we can sell them at the end of the year.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hence it seems appropriate to conclude this book by looking to the future of the discipline of history, and by outlining some of the unresolved issues. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

No children, no pets, no houseplants, few books on the shelves. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I hear fluttering, like the pages of a book blown by the wind, but there is no wind. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He chose his books and tucked them away tightly in his knapsack to keep them dry, they agreed when he should come again, and he went out into the damp, dark evening. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Lockton removed one of the books and the map curled up on itself, clearing the desk for the plate of Gloucester cheese and rye bread and the bowl of strawberries I set there. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles’s first book was to be published that summer—his account of the voyage on the Beagle. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In most-cases he was asked whether he wanted to book a ticket, but in one of them, the Fantasia, no one answered the phone. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“James!” she said and pressed the book to the tabletop. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A first step is to recognize that Of Natural Magic is a book written over a period of more than thirty years. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I see,” I told him, looking up from my book. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Gold wrote Fuchs’s name and address in a book and took it to the scientists’ building. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aden even said it was all in a book and it was so. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Why don’t we lust go settle the books before you leave us. ” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scratched the welts that had popped up on my neck and yelled, “What is the point of a library if they won’t give you a book?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And after Lil closed her book and got up and left without saying a thing, I didn’t even want to try to get it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then she awkwardly palmed a small history book with one hand and raised it into the air. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Okay, yes, I am all caught up with Paper Girls. I am, however, happy to revisit it,” she said, taking the book from me. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Walking back to the clinic, a woman reading on the grass stares over the top of her book at Jason. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but I’ve just finished reading a great book that tells all about what they did to the mummies and everything. I’ve got some tough ideas.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tore the book open and flicked the pages and felt them as if he were blind, he picked at the shape of the individual letters, not blinking. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And also it is important to know things because it makes you special and you can read books that normal people cannot read, such as Ovid's Metamorphosis, which is in Latin.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

When I told her what I did, she drove me back to the bookstore because I was too messy to drive, and I got the book back, which made me feel a little better. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But when I open my hands, Awesome! seems too flashy and bold for his book, and I feel silly for bringing it. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a hammer and two threepenny nails in hand, Stella Armijo emerged from her low adobe farmhouse one morning while Herbie reclined on his front stoop trying to read a book. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The question is, it says in the book that the bait must be left alone.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whatever robo-basket this book ends up in is probably sitting right on top of the entrance to the tunnel.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He flipped back through his book and pointed at, Are you OK? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Furlough crawled up the chair leg and then hopped onto the book. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I gathered my books together, then stood and walked to the door. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

We stepped over the books and through the doorway. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

That afternoon my brother and I went to pick up the books. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Allen and some curly-headed girl were sitting on the curb sharing a book. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not go outside much, except to play basketball with me and my friends, and she seemed to have a book with her wherever she went. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

One of Mrs. Gaskell’s books, her last one, was left unfinished. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She just shook her head and stuffed my lunch into my book bag. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Shelves reaching to the ceiling were filled with old books that gave a leathery, dusty scent to the air. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Neither the Brotherhood nor the book was a subject that any ordinary Party member would mention if there was a way of avoiding it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Lee Lee pulls out a folder from her book bag. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mai turned to leave and that's when she noticed the top book on the tall stack of reading material sitting on Willow's night table. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The reading part of her feels private, between her and the characters in a book. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The boss deliberately put the little book in his pocket. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was also Ross Milton’s book—the book on English usage. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time you pick up a book from a table or a dime from the floor you effortlessly overcome the combined gravitational exertion of an entire planet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I see the letter, sitting on top of my books. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He’s changed his shirt and has moved our books and notes to his bed. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

After I signed in, she pulled the registration book back. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here's mine,” he said, and he rifled the pages until the book opened to a page near the end, a place that had clearly been opened to frequently. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Qendrim Bushi’s soccer idol was his grandfather, once a famous goalkeeper at the highest level of play in Kosovo, and later, a well-known referee and the author of an Albanian-language soccer rule book. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She sat there with her nose already in a book, waiting for me to bring her chocolate. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

One book had a dark stain on it that looked horribly like blood. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

This book tells the story of how these three revolutions have affected humans and their fellow organisms. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

These Szgany are gipsies; I have notes of them in my book. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Gilly nearly tripped over herself, leaping down and grabbing up “Sarsaparilla to Sorcery” from the chair seat, stretching her guts out to tip the book into its place on the shelf. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate: they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It might be like starting all over from nothing, like closing a book and opening another one. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

When, by evening, the crowd on the neighbors’ deck began dancing, she looked up their number in the phone book and asked them to keep it down. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Yeah—but I just tried to book a hotel in Vegas. A million hotel rooms, and not a single one available.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

My fingers dug into the hard cover of my book. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“You came all this way for a book? Can’t it wait?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Nor did I see anybody defining a real man as somebody who paid a lot of attention to books. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But why did Mom bother having three bookcases in here for just—Chess looked around—two books? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m enjoying it, for the most part. Especially now that I have books to read whenever you lock me in here. I don’t suppose you’d understand.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“The book better be,” Uncle said, “or the only one who will enjoy this day will be the mortician.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nine out of ten books I looked up were missing. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Same reason my book probably won’t happen. There’s always someone more dedicated than I am.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if he can hear me with the headphones on, so I find Me, too. in his book and tap it. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The book explained that no one knew for sure who the Geographer was, but that the area where Vermeer lived was a center for mapmakers. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Our library,” said Dr. Gaffney, “contains only books of reference. If our young people need distraction, they can get it at the feelies. We don’t encourage them to indulge in any solitary amusements.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered seeing the book; in fact, I remembered seeing it many times; and yet, each time I saw it, it appeared dreadfully new. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

One is a poetry book and that’s the one she loves. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Lecture tours, book deals. Why, the movie rights alone will be worth a fortune.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

What a criminal waste of a blue book, too. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Look at this, Joseph. I can’t believe I never saw it before! Look at all the notes Marcus wrote in the margins. And here . . .” Frankie pointed to some handwriting in the back of the book. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When he finished the book, in which many of the stories had no endings because there were pages missing, Aureliano Segundo set about deciphering the manuscripts. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Francis was around the corner, buying her a book to read on the train. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The letter he finally wrote to Jenny with Ross Milton’s book close at hand as an aid to spelling was a simple one. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they finished stuffing the bread bag, Emily held up the concealed book, twisting it to view from all angles. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Good, I guess. I mean, their book is doing well. Though I must confess to not understanding hereditary biology as well as they think I do.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I even got her to borrow a book from a doctor, which had large color plates of lungs that had been eaten away by cancer. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I went to the library and checked out a book because I was getting scared. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Its brown icing was as full of holes as the binding of a book when bookworms have been gnawing at it for years. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They loved the book so much, I suggested we make a little movie. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I stumbled over a book in the walkway and had to catch myself on the edge of a table. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Under the board were some sheets of newsprint I had saved, the lead piece from the statue of King George, my seeds, and the book given me by the stationer. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much ink has been spilled by several generations of scholars in an effort to determine who wrote the bulk of the words that eventually found their way into print and then into the history books. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I carried the book to my warm pallet and quietly untied the twine and removed the paper wrapping. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The law is be cool, be tough, play ball, and use books for weight training—not reading. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if the books had been imprinted inside my head. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The book was completed after Huygens had returned to Holland in 1691, partly because of his deteriorating health, but also because the political climate in France had shifted once again. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

As I pushed open the door, Miss Turner leaned over and said to me, “Sam, we have some very good books on plants and trees and animals, in case you get stuck.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

That showed the name of who had hidden the book, and again Emily was surprised. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Travis drives me to school because the project I did for our book report is too hard to take on the bus. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Inside was a cloth-covered book, about ten by fourteen inches and just over an inch thick. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another day, Johnny brought in a pair of crudely made wood book ends and placed them on the bar with a flourish. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except, unlike the boy in the bedtime book, Clayton would not return. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

That was how I escaped my father’s aloofness, in my dead mother’s books. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one way to get out a book from the Restricted Section: You needed a signed note of permission from a teacher. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Still, I turned over the pages of my brothers’ books. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She would pull at her jaw and go through a lot of chin exercises she had read in a movie book. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And she explained to Adam, “My husband gets the strangest things out of books. Dear, shouldn’t we be going?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had a girl my sister’s age and a boy my age, so their books were the ones we needed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Look: Here’s another thing about my father’s book, The Lazarus Door. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“You know I haven’t read a book in ages. No time.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After I did all my chicken chores and my regular chores, I checked to see which of my library books were due. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Captain Underpants was still out on the pile of mail in the kitchen, and that book did make sense. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

A woman leaves him her entire library of several hundred books when she moves. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The agent for the book sent to my hotel a contract dealing with foreign publication rights which needed Malcolm X’s and my signature. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Probably a book on Jewish law or something.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

One book in the case was out of line. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just when she was trying to count up something or write in an account book. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He gave the pest known as Quang-ha a geometric coloring book and commanded that the kid complete three pages. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She stacks books in a box and looks up. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“And, if I may, I do not appreciate you going through my books without informing me.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I went right up to her after recess and smacked her stupid book out of her hands. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Meggie opened the book and leafed through the pages until she found the big N with the animal that looked like Gwin sitting on it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It’s small With two rooms Of books, a globe That I once Dropped, some maps Of the United States and Mexico, And a fish tank with A blue fish that Is always making jeta. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even the most grinding student can feel required to lose himself in his books, since there is Sunday ahead, long, lazy, quiet Sunday, to do any homework. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here,” she says, and hands me back my book. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I turned back to my book, and Rondell pretended to read his Bible. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Kyle kept his hand glued to the right wall and went around corners, through switchbacks, until finally, he stepped into an opening near the book return conveyor belt. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

In my white room, against my white walls, on my glistening white bookshelves, book spines provide the only color. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the editor finally returned with the book, he extended it to Jethro with a grin. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Izaguirre told them she would go to the United States and send money for pinatas and books. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I am not the only one who sometimes thinks I came from the pages of a book my father wrote. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She looked like she might be about my age, and she was reading a book about llamas. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Pater Aquillus is a jurist, and his library is filled with everything from obscure law books to ancient Scholar tomes on mathematics. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The maid stares down at the interlaced hands she holds before her, a gesture that Yolanda remembers seeing illustrated in a book for Renaissance actors. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I told her, let the regular old history books tell it. White people been representing colored opinions since the beginning a time.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m assuming,” he said to Roy, “that the book will cast some light on tonight’s strange events.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He liked books, generally speaking, because they could be trusted to be consistent. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Scientists were bearded men who read heavy books and talked big words, weren’t they? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With these”—he rushes to slide a book back on the shelf, but again, he glitches and his hand passes right through it—“you are bringing stories to a new world.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And there was only one reason Emily could think of that Mr. Griswold would purposely hide a book and not enter it on Book Scavenger. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And definitely if she didn’t make me show the book to everyone we know. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The book hits the wall, drops to the floor. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

What was it they called it, in that book about boats? Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There was exercise, there was sewing, there was supper, there was playtime in the lounge: a big shabby room with board games and a few tattered books and a table-tennis table. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Timelines, summaries, and comparison charts appear throughout the book to help the reader absorb and retain important points. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

The book was right where she thought it would be, shoved partway back under the temple floor. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the book has 598 pages, you can figure out just how long it’s going to take me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“The Soviets have arrested us because we are knowledgeable, learned people. To smoke pages of a book is just...What were you thinking?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

"Can you come wi' me, sir? Nick's stolen the book of Hamlet." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. I should have looked for the book on my own,” he said, passing a finger through the bright flame. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The book’s spine bends easily in my grasp, folding over itself. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I just wanted to remind you, Nat—the Philosophical Library is still open to you—if you want to read the books.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every registered book is issued a unique tracking code. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He and two companions had dragged the fire-eater back here, where Capricorn had, in his own characteristic way, questioned him about Silvertongue and the book. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Dear Charles—my God this is a big city. They speak French and Spanish both. I’m sending you a book.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The book was about all the positive things that had come out of this terrible crime. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“More than a thousand, actually. Ten times ten thousand books. More than that. More books than you could ever read.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I come ...” The Deputy Sub-Bursar heard no more; he had slipped out of the vestibule and was looking up a number in the telephone book. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t usually hesitate so long before opening a book, but she was afraid of what was waiting for her inside this one. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I pick up the comic book I bought a few weeks back. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He sat up quickly, pulled the book out from under him, put on a green eyeshade, and waited with his pen poised in the air. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I see a female nude, such as the Venus in my art history book, I go into ecstasy. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

After writing two books based on her experiences in the Hitler Youth, Melita Maschmann changed her name and moved to India. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“When do you ever read? I’ve never seen you with a reading book.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I booked a red-eye for after the party tonight. I'll only be gone two days, and when I get back we'll figure everything out, okay?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

You can also cash in your points at the Book Scavenger store for book-hunting supplies—or for more books, of course! Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Just me, a woman dressed in workout clothes reading a book, and a homeless man all the way down at the end. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Olly pulls his hands out of his pockets, plucks the book from the shelf and reads. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"That's him, that's the partner. Didn't I tell you he was around here somewhere? They always work in pairs. It's the oldest trick in the book." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I sat down on the dirt floor, beneath the row of dead plants so I couldn’t see them, and held Mom’s book in my lap. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Inside the bundles I found Gertrude’s prayer book and the likeness of my mother, both wrapped in my father's cloak. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I know this is weird, but I make my bed every single day, even though the rest of my room is a hellscape of paper and laundry and books and clutter. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

These books have an exotic appeal for me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She reaches out to touch the mom who went missing from the holograms halfway through her baby book. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Today, for game number ten of the duodecimalthon, we’ll do a little role-playing. You Olympians will play librarians, and I will play the patron who has come here seeking a very particular, very special book.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Her father raised his eyes from the book. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I pushed some books aside on the desk, and he put the tray down. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was slow and aimless, unafraid as I pulled Ben’s book from under my burning mattress. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She closed the book and pushed it to the end of the table. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Bobby pored over Buschke’s holdings for hours, looking for that one book, that one magazine, that one luminous game that might lead him to enlightenment. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It isn’t the first time he’s read the book in this spot. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When we can't find my sister, we know she is under the kitchen table, a book in her hand, a glass of milk and a small bowl of peanuts beside her. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was described to me as an eminent, learned Muslim, a University of Cairo graduate, a University of London Ph.D., a lecturer on Islam, a United Nations advisor and the author of many books. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Church was where we got most of our other books, too. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I carried the book over to the clerk waiting at the cash register. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Jus looks over his shoulder at the blue composition book with Dear Martin in the white space. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Writing a letter or a book?” he says. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Whatever you write in that book will influence those who read it,” Lena said. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Always with a book. Don’t you know that man can’t live by books alone?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was a kid I read these books, the Redwall books, fantasy books about a bunch of warrior mice, and the mice had this war cry that I always thought was cool: “Eulalia.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I have actually seen this record book at meetings of the Tangerine County Sports Commission. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while last summer, I thought I’d heard them all, the natural questions of someone who hadn’t read the book. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually, I’m looking for books about ciphers or making up codes,” James said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Others suffragists thought that the books could only be authoritative if they included both sides of the movement. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

One thing we had going for us was an excerpt from this book that ran in Rolling Stone in April 1999. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still didn't know where to look for the book. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I wish we had The Nightbeast Archives. That book is supposed to have all the info on them,” Seven said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Knowing that he was looking for her and the book would make it harder for her to act normal if he happened to be there again. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I was pretending it was that underwater boat in the book Momma read to me, Twenty Thousand Leaks Under the Sea. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Others suggested that a longer Academy would not be necessary if short classes weren’t booked into long class periods, leaving us to practice pool shots in the lounge for a couple of hours each day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone here is reading a book called Salute to Freedom. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She reached for her backpack to grab the book, but Mr. Quisling held up a hand. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I knew the first line of my book without even looking. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Forgetting everything else, Emily ran and lifted the book from the island. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He thought he had better reread that part of the book. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bod had never seen a real horse before, only in the pages of picture books, but the white horse that clopped down the street towards them was nothing like the horses he had imagined. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The money is an incentive—the word “incentive” here means “an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don’t want to do”—to read long, dull, and difficult books. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Hotels and restaurants around the world were completely booked well in advance for December 31, 1999—not so for December 31, 2000. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

A number of my colleagues were already there, having been arrested and booked earlier that morning. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness between stations, I catalog the trip—lion’s paw, new books, time in the comfy chair. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He knows the risk reading such a book would pose. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Julia dozes off, and sometimes she reads her books, but mostly she draws pictures and talks about her day. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, in front of the Golden Glen, Louisiana was holding the book, and Beverly was sitting on the curb, and Raymie was standing and staring at nothing at all. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Why have you kept away from me, Robert?” she asked, closing the book that lay open upon the table. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fourteen is a good age to read this book and sixteen is even better. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was sitting at the table, flipping through one of the half dozen books the camp owned. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He signed the account book and took the eyeglasses. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t silly, wasn’t always twiddling her plaits, didn’t tattle or gossip, didn’t hit boys over the head with books or scrape the back of your neck with a sweetgum burr when you weren’t looking. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A minute later he snapped the book shut. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In addition to towering walls of books, there was a whole planetarium of stars and constellations projected on the ceiling. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Did we not put that old book he used to read for the civil service exam inside?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tiny decides to ignore me, and he tells Jane that he hopes one day to have enough texts from Will Grayson to turn them into a book, because his texts are like poetry. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Within a few months, he found that he could follow the games and the diagrams in the books without the use of a board. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She pulls open the book and shows me a page. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Because he’s tired of people taking out books and not bringing them back. He looked so sad yesterday.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Wondering why I had written nearly ninety titles, but not one single book. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

By the end of the first century of the Fourth Age there were already to be found in the Shire several libraries that contained many historical books and records. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“But there’s no need. These cards are part of a speech program we use, and it comes with a whole book of words. I can copy whatever he needs from there.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed her hard into the corner, between the books. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She climbed on one of the benches and opened a book. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She opens a book and disappears into it, never looking up. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One of those demure oil portraits of a lady with a book open in her lap and a lamb lying at her feet. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Miss Lee had asked him to bring her the book she needed. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The class was quiet and Mrs. Henry put her book down and sat behind her desk. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Get away from her, D,” Chantal says, not looking up from her book. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

While I recovered, Mae and Birdie gave me reading lessons and a book about dragons. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Moore’s Navigator was supposed to be the best book of its kind in the world! Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mo put the book under the jacket, which had almost made him look like one of Capricorn’s henchmen. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“What do I got to do, Lillian? Write you a book? Yeah, she hit me with the shot putt.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first she went back to the orphan books she’d been pushed to read in school. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

On Monday morning, I sat down to plan my week, scheduling massage appointments, booking sessions with my trainer, arranging lesson times with my coach. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But all that is merely conjecture; no history books survived to tell the tale. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember the little black book with my picture in it. Where is it?” my mother said, again grabbing me and shaking me, begging me to remember. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reason why we can be certain is that the arrivals took place in modern times and involved literate Europeans, who described in innumerable books what happened. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My mother gave him the books, and a week later, I had two primers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pile of books lay on the floor, and one by one she flung them from the open window as she wept with hysteria. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The book that most interested the boy told the stories of the famous alchemists. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your friend’s book. It meant something to you?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I’ve walked around the campuses nearby, seen all the buttoned-up students with their books and their satchels and their studious expressions. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the words of Geoffrey Keynes, it ranks ‘among the most important books ever published in the history of science’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

These were the dudes who used to call me White Boy because while they were shooting dice for pennies at recess, I was reading a book. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I think my students will be able to identify with the teen protagonists in all of the books I’ve selected. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In my book Mathematics and Humor I tried to show that both activities are forms of intellectual play, which often find common ground in brainteasers, puzzles, games, and paradoxes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I get Miss Saunders’s grade book out of the desk. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

A broken pen, snapped in half deliberately—or at least I can’t think of a way it could have happened that’s not deliberate—is lying in the hinge of the ink-stained book. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I heard about what happened yesterday. About the books.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“You’ve had your chance to look over these books. If you need more time, you’ll need to make an appointment, and perhaps someone can assist you.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

If I wear Justin’s underwear, I might have time to find Mom’s study book. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She passes by Poppet and Widget, where Poppet is teaching the marmalade kittens to climb onto her shoulders and Widget is pulling book after book from the library’s well-stocked shelves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He scanned through ten volumes of Foxfire books for information about the habits and habitat of the feral hog. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard of this book,” he whispered, “but I never thought…” He was talking like you would talk just before Mass. He opened the front page, looked at the sheet of music pasted in. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

According to Nok’s history books, it was named for the giants who helped build it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

As you went up, carved into the column itself, would be shelves, where books were stacked by the dynasty in which they were made. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He carried the first box, filled mostly with books and CDs, down to the first floor. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

That, of course, will be a major theme of the later part of this book. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Willie gazed nervously around the room—at the books on the kitchen table, the sink, the cot against the wall, and at his father. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“And yet they knew of your book here. Told me all about it. How did they learn of it? What did they want from you?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Grandfather would never have allowed her to learn from such a book. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He has lots of questions, thinks he wants to write a book. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pilar has this book, a Chinese oracle, that predicts the future. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened the hymn book and played two of my favorites, “How Great Thou Art” and “In the Garden.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The two Poe books were the smallest ones and barely added to the bulk, so she left them in. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, every person is a book with chapters. Some are glorious and some are dark and ugly. Every person survives something. We should get a patch for it.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He was down with the books and everything, but he kept to himself a lot and didn’t get into anybody else’s business. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now, her memories came tumbling toward her—a kindly old man, a decrepit castle, a clutch of scholars with their faces buried in books, a mournful mother dragon saying good-bye. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I guess we will have to get along without these books,” he said. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Successful black families were moving to the suburbs, but their kids still wanted to have block parties and stay connected to the culture of the townships, so they’d book us to play their parties. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then he put the maps in the books he wrote to extol his adventures. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But I can’t remember the title or the author or whether this book...” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

A book lay open on her lap, but her eyes were closed. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, Sissy set about getting the two books. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As James and Maddie tugged the book back and forth in front of Emily, the bar code waved like a black-and-white flag until it finally got her attention. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Having with great care and for a long time thought about and examined these deeds, and having now set them down in a little book, I am sending them to Your Magnificence. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Same reason he didn’t give it to you while he was alive? Same reason he left you an old Snitch and Hermione a book of kids’ stories?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I love that you’re so passionate about books and publishing. Speaking of, it’s back to work for me.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We were just about to move on to pancakes when Richard handed me a hard, rectangular package that had to be a book. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

"Why does everyone fret so about the book?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The book did not appear to be as sturdy as the others lying around. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Allow me, though, to make a counterargument. Do you believe that the books of the Jews should be burned?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

But the vivid descriptions in the popular books by Lowell and his fervor in public lectures convinced millions of people for years to come that Mars was home to intelligent life. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

We have cots, the table and chairs we acquired in Kinshasa, a collection of agriculture books and teaching tools from Bikoki, my ancient suitcase of family treasures salvaged from Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him how exciting it was to be hearing a story from such a big book. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Dorian, while he still enjoyed swordplay, had grown to prefer books. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

If mathematics education communicated this playful aspect of the subject, formally at the elementary, secondary, or college level or informally via popular books, I don’t think innumeracy would be as widespread as it is. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Galileo had had the preface set in a different typeface from the rest of the book, clearly indicating that it did not represent his own views. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Roy had put the book on his Christmas list after it had settled a friendly wager between him and his father. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and return the old ones. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she bent down to pick up her litter, she spotted the maroon edge of a book jammed between the can and the wall. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Hugo reached inside his wet jacket and took out the book that he had borrowed from the Film Academy. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“You watch your mouth, mister. You are talking about my son. I don’t want to hear any more from you. That’s enough debate—get your books out.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I reached around Buck, grabbed my books, and took off at a near trot. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had been bicycling through the air, ice cream in her hand and a book floating in front of her face. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

While Wash read aloud from her English book, she stared out at the river. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He likes to lean back against them while he sits on the floor cross-legged and looks at the pictures in his comic book. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He said later, “The success of this my first literary child always tickles my vanity more than that of any of my other books.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heading home on the bus every day, people would be pulling flat shiny bags out of their history books like crazy and passing them to Cletus in the backseat. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Placing the CD player on his communication book, I push PLAY. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d noticed that after all the other students would leave, Sylvanus and the colored girl stayed and sat on a bench looking through books. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t this your favorite book of all time?” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She threw down her books and began climbing. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She handed me a blue book with gilt-edged pages. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He got his books out of his locker and went on down the hallway. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She had taken the Florence Nightingale book from him and brought it home and put it on her shelf. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Tucker prodded the binding of my calculus book. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She was crying, and moving around the room with a heavy grace, collecting her books. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

With the first draft down, I found that I could not end the book satisfactorily. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I take Justin’s books out of his locker, I can feel someone hovering on the periphery. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was from The Three Musketeers, which was a book way before it became the name of a candy bar. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled a set of books out and dropped them on the floor without even checking through them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was bad enough he’d thrown that book away in the first place. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It’s outside the scope of this book to recount all that happened in the interim. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fiddled with the straps on his book bag and stared at me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Even though she had teased James about his knack for spotting a puzzle anywhere, it kind of spooked her, as if the book itself were trying to talk to her. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Had Darwin looked carefully through the books in his voluminous library, he might have found a reference to an obscure paper by a little-known botanist from Brno. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Unfortunately,” said Andrew, “they’ve temporarily erased the book’s call number from the database.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She slipped the card into the math book that lay in the middle of Miss Harris’s otherwise absolutely neat desk. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Thick books lined all the walls and cluttered a mantelpiece overhanging another fireplace. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I should have gone to my locker first and gotten my backpack—I forgot about the books that are in here. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The book club needs to mix it up a little. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He took the book and the papers and his mothers box and got to his feet. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Emily clapped both hands over her mouth and completely forgot there had been a madman book collector on the hunt for them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But I said that it wasn’t a proper book because it didn’t have a proper ending because I never found out who killed Wellington so the murderer was still At Large. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ash asked, “Will you bring me a new book, Father?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time he had a chance he borrowed the algebra book, to copy it into his notebook. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Overjoyed, she ran down the hill, rushed breathlessly into her father’s office, and placed her prize, a book written in Greek, on the table. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Not if the books smell like the library.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“What if we put the Terrible Awful in the book,” Minny asks. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was funny to think of Henry, with his little round glasses and his books in Pali, breaking Spike Romney’s collarbone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She lets the class act out parts of stories, and sometimes she even turns books into games. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I was reading a new Captain Underpants book, and it didn’t even have the fake Johnny Treeface title on it, but Mom didn’t say anything about that. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought nobody knew about that book here, in England.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drawing was still there, propped up against her neat stack of books, one corner drooping from the weight of a paper clip. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We threaded our way through the crowd at the Number One Department Store, searching the store for just the right green schoolbag, large enough to carry ten big books. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Incidentally, he told me he had given me that book because he had just broken up with his girlfriend and was feeling philosophical. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But I realized when I do that I usually start thinking about something I don’t really wanna think about, like my moms or Diego, so I decided to start reading books. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I purchase books that I never knew existed, titles such as Youth: Identity and Crisis, I and Thou, The Divided Self. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It belongs to a different, far bigger and more scholarly book to trace in detail the development of rhetoric teaching and theory between the ancient world and the present day. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

A spokesman for DOCS, however, insisted later that neither he nor the commissioner would bother to read the book. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find it now in books I was reading, in my lecture notes, in the margins of my journal. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Along with the shoebox containing the picture of her parents, the book of poems, and the sketchbook. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She brought the book to her nose—maybe it was her imagination, but she thought she smelled traces of lavender. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In contrast, the information in our books is at most thousands of years old, and that in our brains is only decades old. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But still the book gave her no answers, and however much she read, however skilled she became with a knife and a bow, she seemed no closer to fulfilling her vow. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Victor, the pigeon most; He cast a quick glance at the girl and checked that she was absorbed in her book. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Presently he emerged, carrying a large green book which was always kept there in case the King wanted to know anything. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

This was probably why most kids just carried their books around with them all day. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

There were all those train bookings and boat bookings and hotel bookings to be made in advance by letter. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

A smile spreads across her face as she reads the title of the book I made. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bookseller got down two fat books, Parts I and II of An American Dictionary of the English Language and then a third. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dude didn’t know I was probably gonna write a book anyways. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The fellow by that book. I saw him move.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I came down to the library to get a book,” she said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

When my brother saw me struggling home with stacks of library books, he would laugh, shouting: ‘Hey, Four Eyes!’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thrust the book into her pack and shoved past him into the hold. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His most promising scheme had involved getting a book 011 munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some mornings, his father would come into Klaus’s room to wake him up and find him asleep, still clutching his flashlight in one hand and his book in the other. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

During the airport arrest police found in Swango’s possession a notebook in which he had copied passages from certain books, either for the inspiration they provided or because of some affirming resonance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Though, in the book, the Ingallses leave the reservation under threat of being removed by soldiers, many squatters began to take the land by force. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Oya, book people, go. Make sure you change those number plates.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Stanford is Division One. The school gave me money for tuition, books, all that.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Murphy has been so generous that I now have two suitcases and a satchel filled with clothes and books and shoes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Every second person wanted to tell me something kind about my books. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Nothing pleases Natalie more than having him read the index of a book to her. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you know, today I don’t think I’ll choose a book on wolves.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Vanessa began thumbing through the book, which suddenly looked very much like a textbook. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The principal was right; my taste for books had been greatly influenced by the kinds of literature I had seen in the homes of white people. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even bother to look up from my book. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look over here, hog. Is this a skin book?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

With one cat in her lap and another licking an oatmeal bowl on the table, she sat drinking coffee and reading a book of theater plays. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Those cells are Henrietta,” he said, taking back the Bible and opening it to the book of John. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then he closes the book and says, “Wow. I mean, nothing gold can stay. How true is that?” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

For a long time I stare at the floral wallpaper and shelves full of books, then I notice a framed photograph of a boy in uniform. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It defeats the point of the book, to put in only part of the story. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Across the table, Two Step and Mapper chatted excitedly about their day while Sabeen ate quietly, her eyes glued to a book. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He unlocked a tall glass cabinet crammed with more books, preserved birds, bottled beasts, and other curios. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The books were in the back of the closet where I threw them and I got them out. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

At his suggestion, she had checked out all the books with girl main characters, and he had checked out the books featuring boys. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He told Joseph to put the book away. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I see a few other students late for school, gathering their books. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Mama, we’ve read these plays so many times over, that I almost know them by heart. I don’t need a light or the book, Mama. Listen!” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a long table, also heaped with old books and papers, the proprietor was writing tireless prose in purple letters, somewhat outlandish, and on the loose pages of a school notebook. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

After reading this book, I realized how teens are very gullible; getting tricked into doing things against their will because they want to fit in and be popular. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In spite of all these difficulties, he continued to prepare his epic book on mechanics, inertia and motion. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“That sounds important, but we can talk about that later. You’ll be safe at camp. All the books and food you want.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Before I had finished the first page of my book, I heard a dog barking. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It reminded me of a character in a book I’d read, and for a moment I wondered if Señora Oralia was a witch too. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Could we make events turn out differently from what the history books assert? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He set his feet down and put the book on the table. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, however, I got so sick of spelling and spelling books that I cried. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But these men couldn’t be talking about that book. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine that one man could read all these books in a whole lifetime. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I set my bag on the ground, still holding my books in my arms. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I stare at the Arabic letters on the page, imagining them as musical notes in my piano book. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“We want our rocket to go to an altitude of precisely two miles. The equations to make that happen are in that book. Do them!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

So we might want to claim that it is the book—or rather, in this case, the well-stocked library—that transforms the status of experiment; by crystallizing past knowledge, the library makes new knowledge possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“So, girls are supposed to draw and like books.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The books were from the other place, the world out there. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Montez with his nose in a book, being annoyed with all her questions but answering them anyway. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I keep my finger in the book and turn to face him. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

An ominous rumble rattled the deck as I crossed the few feet to pick up the little book. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Moved it under the dim light next to my book. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

You are, of course, free to read as many of the books in the castle library as you wish, but I command you to read these first so that we might discuss them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, okay,” I said, and went back to my book. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Turning, the demon pulled a book from the shelf and tore it in half. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

So we talk about Vonnegut and I tell her that my favorite book of his is Cat’s Cradle. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wakes in distant quarters of the night and sees Frederick in his bedroom in Berlin, wearing his eyeglasses and necktie, freeing trapped birds from the pages of a massive book. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We keep the food hidden behind a stack of books. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I arrange my face in the middle of the book, my hair spread like seaweed floating in the current of the story that sweeps me under and away to sleep. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Harry turned to the back cover of the book and saw the printed name of a variety store on Vauxhall Road, London. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Finishing the book had almost done him in. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Thursday, I was sitting in Mr. Harding’s classroom, munching on my pimento cheese sandwich, when he came over and threw a thick book down on my desk. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was a computer programmer. I have a book about her that my dad got me. I think he’s trying to inspire me to work with computers instead of animals,” she laughs. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She picks up Lin Yiitang and starts reading the page where I left the book face down on the table. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was illustrated with a cartoony-looking detective in a checkered hat who was holding up a magnifying glass to examine books on a shelf. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Your book is about us living in all fifty states. We have a lot more to go before we’re done. If we stop now, you won’t be able to write your book.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Blue walls covered with superhero and comic book posters, a solar system slowly revolved from the ceiling, a stuffed boa constrictor stretched across the foot of his bed. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I liked the book because much of it took place in areas of New York with which I was familiar. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to cause problems for science,” Sonny told me as this book went to press. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He lifted the book right in front of his face. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I believed they were feeling more peace of mind when they asked for books. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened a book and started to read, which was kind of rude. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She said she was going to give me some books and that I not only must read them, I must read them aloud. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deborah told the man she’d been talking to me for a book, and he warned her not to talk to white people about her story. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was not permitted to hold the book again. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I held up the book I was reading so he could see what I was talking about. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He takes a book out of the bag, then standing, flips through it until he finds what he’s looking for. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The men wait with cigars, flowers, address books, bottles of champagne. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“After stealing his magic books! Or perhaps you may drag your dagger across his throat.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There were books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

My father always says she only works to feed our family’s book addiction and that we’d be further ahead financially if she collected aluminum cans from the side of the freeway to recycle. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z