A young man discovers a monstrous menace in the bookshop of a friend: the Spine Tingler, a creature created from the spines of mysterious books. Only the Librarian of Doom has the backbone to save them, but no one knows where the hero is, and the Tinglers are ready to attack! Who will prevail in this latest mystery in the Library of Doom? This gripping tale is followed up with discussion questions, writing prompts, and a glossary.
An explosion rocks the Library of Doom, and one of the workers, a page, is missing. It will take two Librarians to find and rescue him. But the heroes are met with unexpected danger . . . the jewel-hungry Watch-Man, whose mighty weapon, the Topaz of Time, can turn his enemies and all around him into dust! This gripping mystery is followed up with discussion questions, writing prompts, and a glossary.
A shadowy thief is haunting the Library of Doom. The crook is outsmarting all the Library's ancient security devices, one by one. Nothing can stop him. But how is that possible? And what's worse, the thief is heading toward the Library's most amazing weapon . . . the Eye of the I, a gleaming pearl that can transform its owner into anyone else in the world! Can the Librarians stop the crook before it's too late? This gripping mystery is followed up with discussion questions, writing prompts, and a glossary.
The most fearsome book in the Library of Doom contains a single sentence, but if it is read, the reader will vanish into nothingness. The book is now loose in a small town, lying on the floor of a school bus, where anyone can find it and open its cover. The only hero who can handle the World's Shortest Story is the one with a very special ability . . . the Blind Librarian. This gripping mystery is followed up with discussion questions, writing prompts, and a glossary.
These are the last days of the Library of Doom. The forces of villainy are freeing the Library's most dangerous books. Only one thing can stop Evil from penning history's final chapter . . . the League of Librarians, a mysterious collection of heroes who only appear when the Library faces its greatest threat. Complete with non-fiction back matter, including discussion questions, writing prompts, and glossaries, these mysteries are as educational as they are enthralling.
Late one night, two friends hurry home after a birthday party ends. On the way, they spy a small lending library that hadn’t been there before the party. When they open the little door and browse the books, a claw reaches out and pulls the girls inside! They find themselves trapped in a dark world with a shadowy beast that has a taste for voracious readers . . .
Slate is a cliffhanger -- a person who tracks down specific books on the skyscraper-like shelves deep within the Library of Doom. Slate boasts that he can find any book, even the one that no Librarian has been able to locate: THE SCRAWLER. To prove his worth, Slate braves the forbidden Black Shelves, a maze so dark and cold that all sound is sucked from the air -- and no words can be spoken. But before Slate can locate the long-lost book, he finds more than he bargained for . . .
In the heart of the Library of Doom, within the Librarian’s secret chamber, is a sealed, invisible vault. It contains a single book -- a book so poisonous that it drains the Librarian’s life away day by day, year by year. It is the price each Librarian must pay, because if anyone reads the final word in the story, the whole world will be destroyed! So when the book goes missing, the Librarian must track it down without delay. There’s just one problem: only another Librarian would know where the book was located . . . Is there a traitor in the League of Librarians?
One night, a young student’s thesaurus disappears from her bedroom. A trail of slimy footprints leads to the bedroom window, so she looks outside and sees the thesaurus down below in the grass. Then, suddenly, a colossal monster unfolds itself from the pages of the thesaurus like an origami creation gone terribly wrong. Soon, it towers above the family’s house, constantly changing its form and sprouting a new weapon with each transformation! Who could possibly defeat this shape-shifting monster made of synonyms? This reading experience is complete with non-fiction back matter, including discussion questions, writing prompts, and glossaries, these mysteries are as educational as they are enthralling.
These are the last days of the Library of Doom. The forces of villainy are freeing the Library's most dangerous books. Only one thing can stop Evil from penning history's final chapter . . . the League of Librarians, a mysterious collection of heroes who