"Winner of the 2016 Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction, Media Ecology Association" David J. Alworth is assistant professor of English and of History and Literature at Harvard University. Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites-supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums-that have been crucial to American...

Have you ever had an x-ray? X-rays are like photographs of your bones. They show what is inside your body. X-rays show if your bones are broken. Animals can have x-rays of their bodies too.

Can you sing a song? Can you play an instrument? This book shows, lots of ways, to make music. Which instrument would you, like to play?

Do you like dressing up in funny clothes? Look at all the costumes in the dressing-up box. Which costume would you like to wear?

Fruit is delicious food. Yum! Do you know, lots of different kinds of fruit? What is your favorite fruit?

As bombs rain down on Warsaw and Hitler's forces surround the city, childhood friends Marta and Janina join the war effort using one of the only weapons that still feel safe to them: literature, fighting to preserve their culture and community and finding hope in each other in order to survive.

"In 1930's rural Kentucky, Anna Mary, rhymes with library, and her horse, Sand, go from farm to farm to deliver books to the delight of both children and adults"--

Lotti is a shy girl who retreats into a world of books and reading, but eventually learns to make friends with other kids who share her passion, and reconnects with the real world (including her brother). Includes reading recommendations throughout.

When Rocket finds out her town's library is closing, she rallies support from her peers, and together they lead a peaceful protest that spreads awareness and raises enough money to save their beloved library.

Lola reads story books to her new baby brother Leo, and even though Mommy and Daddy are busy, they still have time to read to Lola at bedtime.