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  • The Accidental Keyhand (Ninja Librarians #1)

The Accidental Keyhand
(Ninja Librarians #1)

Publication Date
March 20, 2015
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  4th − 5th
Language
English
The Accidental Keyhand (Ninja Librarians #1)
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Description

In this swashbuckling middle grade debut, 12-year-old Dorrie Barnes falls through a passage in her local library into the headquarters of a secret society of heroic librarians. Your mission should you choose to accept it: support and promote the unsung heroes of literature, the defenders of the Dewey Decimal system, the freedom fighters of free speech--Ninja Librarians!

When Dorrie and her brother Marcus chase an unusually foul-tempered mongoose into the janitor's closet of their local library, they make an astonishing discovery: the headquarters of a secret society of ninja librarians.

Their mission: protect those whose words get them into trouble, anywhere in the world and at any time in history.

Petrarch's Library is an amazing, jumbled, time-traveling secret base that can dock anywhere there's trouble, like the Spanish Inquisition, or ancient Greece, or...Passaic, New Jersey. Dorrie would love nothing more than to join the society, fighting injustice with a real sword! But when a traitor surfaces, she and Marcus are prime suspects. Can they clear their names before the only passage back to the twenty-first century closes forever 

Publication date
March 20, 2015
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781492601807
Lexile Measure
850
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Series
Ninja Librarians
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV001000 - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure
Library of Congress categories
Librarians
Space and time
Secret societies
Censorship
Jen Swann Downey
Jen Swann Downey's nonfiction pieces have appeared in New York Magazine, the Washington Post, Women's Day, and other publications. She's never visited a library in which she didn't want to spend the night. Jen lives in Charlottesville, VA, with her husband and three children and feels very lucky they have yet to fire her.
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