{"product_id":"here-lies-the-librarian-paperback","title":"Here Lies the Librarian - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Peck\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeewee idolizes Jake, a big brother whose dreams of auto mechanic glory are fueled by the hard road coming to link their Indiana town and futures with the twentieth century. And motoring down the road comes Irene Ridpath, a young librarian with plans to astonish them all and turn Peewee's life upside down. Here Lies the Librarian, with its quirky characters, folksy setting, classic cars, and hilariously larger-than-life moments, is vintage Richard Peck--an offbeat, deliciously wicked comedy that is also unexpectedly moving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eI spent the first eighteen years of my life in Decatur, Illinois, a middle-American town in a time when teenagers were considered guilty until proven innocent, which is fair enough. My mother read to me before I could read to myself, and so I dreamed from the start of being a writer in NewYork. But Decatur returned to haunt me, becoming the Bluff City\" of my four novels starring Alexander Armsworth and Blossom Culp. When I was young, we were never more than five minutes from the nearest adult, and that solved most of the problems I write about for a latergeneration living nearer the edge. The freedoms and choices prematurely imposed upon young people today have created an entire literature for them. But then novels are never about peopleliving easy lives through tranquil times; novels are the biographies of survivors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I went to college in Indiana and then England, and I was a soldier in Germany -- a chaplain's assistant in Stuttgart -- ghost-writing sermons and hearing more confessions than the clergy. In Decatur we'd been brought up to make a living and not to take chances, and so I became an English teacher, thinking this was as close to the written word as I'd be allowed to come. And it was teaching that made a writer out of me. I found my future readers right there in the roll book.After all, a novel is about the individual within the group, and that's how I saw young people every day, as their parents never do. In all my novels, you have to declare your independence from your peers before you can take that first real step toward yourself. As a teacher, I'd noticedthat nobody ever grows up in a group.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I wrote my first line of fiction on May 24th, 1971 -- after seventh period. I'd quit my teaching job that day, liberated at last from my tenure and hospitalization. At first, I wrote with my own students in mind. Shortly, I noticed that while I was growing older every minute at the typewriter, my readers remained mysteriously the same age. For inspiration, I now travel about sixty thousand miles a year, on the trail of the young. Now, I never start a novel until some young reader, somewhere, gives me the necessary nudge..\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In an age when hardly more than half my readers live in the same homes as their fathers, I was moved to write \u003ci\u003eFather Figure\u003c\/i\u003e. In it a teenaged boy who has played the father-figurerole to his little brother is threatened when they are both reunited with the father they hardly know. It's anovel like so many of our novels that moves from anger to hope in situations to convince young readers that novels can be about them...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I wrote \u003ci\u003eAre You in the House Alone?\u003c\/i\u003e when I learned that the typical victim of our fastest growing, least-reported crime, rape, is a teenager -- one of my own readers, perhaps. It's not a novel to tell young readers what rape is. They already know that. It's meant to portray a character who must become something more than a victim in our judicial system that defers to thecriminal...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Two of my latest attempts to keep pace with the young are a comedy called \u003ci\u003eLost in Cyberspace\u003c\/i\u003e and its sequel, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Interactive Dream Machine\u003c\/i\u003e. Like a lot of adults, I noticed that twelve year olds are already far more computer-literate than I will ever be. As a writer, I could create a funny story on the subject, but I expect young readers will be moreattracted to it because it is also a story about two friends having adventures together. There's a touch of time travel in it, too, cybernetically speaking, for those readers who liked sharing Blossom Culp's exploits. And the setting is New York, that magic place I dreamed of when I wasyoung in Decatur, Illinois...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMore About Richard Peck\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Peck has written over twenty novels, and in the process has become one of America's most highly respected writers for young adults. A versatile writer, he is beloved by middle gradersas well as young adults for his mysteries and coming-of-age novels. He now lives in New York City. In addition to writing, he spends a great deal of time traveling around the country attending speaking engagements at conferences, schools and libraries...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMr. Peck has won a number of major awards for the body of his work, including the Margaret A. Edwards Award from \u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, the National Council of Teachers ofEnglish\/ALAN Award, and the 1991 Medallion from the University of Southern Mississippi. Virtually everypublication and association in the field of children s literature has recommended his books, including Mystery Writers of America which twice gave him their Edgar Allan Poe Award.Dial Books for Young Readers is honored to welcome Richard Peck to its list with \u003ci\u003eLost in Cyberspace\u003c\/i\u003e and its sequel \u003ci\u003eThe Great Interactive Dream Machine\u003c\/i\u003e...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwenty Minutes a Day\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby Richard Peck\u003cbr\u003eRead to your children\u003cbr\u003eTwenty minutes a day;\u003cbr\u003eYou have the time, \u003cbr\u003eAnd so do they.\u003cbr\u003eRead while the laundry is in the machine;\u003cbr\u003eRead while the dinner cooks;\u003cbr\u003eTuck a child in the crook of your arm\u003cbr\u003eAnd reach for the library books.\u003cbr\u003eHide the remote, \u003cbr\u003eLet the computer games cool, \u003cbr\u003eFor one day your children will be off to school;\u003cbr\u003e Remedial? Gifted? You have the choice;\u003cbr\u003eLet them hear their first tales\u003cbr\u003eIn the sound of your voice.\u003cbr\u003eRead in the morning;\u003cbr\u003eRead over noon;\u003cbr\u003eRead by the light of\u003cbr\u003eGoodnight Moon.\u003cbr\u003eTurn the pages together, \u003cbr\u003eSitting close as you'll fit, \u003cbr\u003eTill a small voice beside you says, \u003cbr\u003e\"Hey, don't quit.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecopyright (c) 2000 by Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers. All rights reserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 7.78 x 5.11 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 06, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Here Lies the Librarian\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Middle Grades, 4-8\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5.1\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 4\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765406105888,"sku":"9780142409084","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c1788357238b0a9de9cd112ca8d583ed.webp?v=1780268582","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/here-lies-the-librarian-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}