Just a little story about your average sword-swinging, karate-chopping, crime-fighting ninja librarians - now in paperback!
Just a little story about your average sword-swinging, karate-chopping, crime-fighting ninja librarians - now in paperback!
Just a little story about your average swordswinging, karatechopping, crime-fighting ninja librarians-now in paperback!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?
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. Visit her at
Dorrie Barnes had no idea an overdue library book would change her life. When Dorrie and her brother Marcus chase her pet mongoose into the janitor's closet of their local library, they accidentally fall through a passage into Petrarch's Library - the headquarters of a secret society of ninja librarians who have an important mission: protect those whose words have gotten them into trouble. Anywhere in the world and at any time in history. Dorrie would love nothing more than to join the society. But when a traitor surfaces, she and her friends are the prime suspects. Can they clear their names before the only passage back to the twenty first century closes forever?
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