The Library

Sarah Stewart
027 Man

Elizabeth Brown doesn't like to play with dolls and she doesn't like to skate. What she does like to do is read books. Lots of books. The only problem is that her library has gotten so big she can't even use her front door anymore. What should Elizabeth Brown do? Start her own public library, of course! With charming verse and watercolors Sarah Stewart and David Small celebrate one of America's oldest and finest institutions.—Holtzbrinck Publishing



"I remember checking out this book in Kindergarten and wanting so badly to be the main character. The main character is a red-hair with glasses who loves cats and books. She collects so many books that she opens a community library in her home for others to borrow."—Submitted by Amy C., Community and Engagement Librarian


Bicentennial Staff Picks

  • The Woman in the Dunes


  • Dune Messiah


  • Foundryside


  • The Music Lesson


  • Me Talk Pretty One Day


  • Dragon's Merry Christmas


  • X'ed Out


  • The Essential Tales of Chekhov


  • Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality


  • The Lost Coast


  • Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World


  • The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath


  • The Word Is Murder


  • The Friend


  • Hawkeye omnibus


  • The Pirate Coast


  • Lost Horizon


  • The Johnstown Flood


  • The Mistress of Spices


  • Life


  • The Far Field


  • The Road Less Traveled


  • Figuring


  • His Majesty's Dragon


  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking


  • Thanks a Thousand: A Gratitude Journey


  • Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks


  • The Universe in a Nutshell


  • Persepolis


  • VALIS


  • The Ghost Clause


  • Ecology of a Cracker Childhood


  • Feeling Sorry for Celia


  • Anne of Green Gables


  • The Blue Sword


  • A Little Princess


  • The King's Stilts


  • Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s


  • Daisy Jones & The Six


  • Fables. 8, Wolves


  • Gilead


  • Rural Free


  • Wired


  • Dangerous Laughter


  • Nitro --The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapes of Ted Turner's WCW


  • Slaughterhouse Five


  • The Luster of Lost Things


  • Snotgirl Vol. 1


  • Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years


  • My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book One


  • Birdie and Me


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  • The Lost Words: A Spell Book


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  • Communing With The Divine: A Clairvoyant's Guide To Angels, Archangels and the Spiritual Hierarchy


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  • Castoff: The Strange Adventures of Petra De Winter and Bram


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  • Mouse Guard: Fall 1152


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  • The Girl From Rawblood


  • East of Eden


  • Jane Eyre


  • Watchmen


  • The Master and Margarita


  • Chloe's Vegan Desserts


  • The Jordan Rules


  • Riddley Walker


  • The Life and Art of Felrath Hines : from dark to light


  • Sunny


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  • Dark of the Moon


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  • The Clan of the Cave Bear


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  • The Eye of Minds


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  • My Name is Asher Lev


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  • The Monkey's Raincoat


  • Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow


  • True Grit


  • Autobiography of an Execution


  • Spoon River Anthology


  • The Woman in White


  • Wild Beauty


  • Giver of Stars


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  • The New Moosewood Cookbook


  • Foucault's Pendulum


  • Simulacra and Simulation


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  • Ulysses


  • Matter : a Culture novel


  • The Charterhouse of Parma


  • Braiding Sweetgrass


  • Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale


  • Naked Lunch


  • Oreo


  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time


  • The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works


  • Oleanna


  • The Diary of a Young Girl


  • The Wild Robot


  • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City


  • The Story of Ferdinand


  • Running with Sherman


  • Dragon Bound


  • Suttree


  • The Rest is Noise


  • Station Eleven


  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid


  • Look Both Ways : a Tale Told in Ten Blocks


  • Understanding Comics: the Invisible Art


  • Three Things About Elsie


  • The Murderer's Ape


  • Strange Planet


  • War and Peace


  • I Know This Much is True


  • The Last Wish


  • Taproot : a story about a gardener and a ghost


  • Parable of the Sower


  • The Lord of the Rings


  • Do Fish Sleep?


  • What is the What


  • Growth of the Soil


  • Prelude to Bruise


  • Big Sur


  • Unterzakhn


  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone


  • Cannery Row


  • Warrior of the Wild


  • The House at Pooh Corner


  • The Stardust Road


  • Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker


  • The Quilter's Apprentice


  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness


  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


  • Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?


  • The Room : A Novel


  • Siddhartha


  • The Never Game


  • The Index Card


  • Why You Like This Photo : the Science of Perception


  • Travels With Charley


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  • A Clockwork Orange


  • Dealing with Dragons


  • Dawn


  • The Silmarillion


  • Under the Volcano


  • The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy


  • The Stand


  • The Go-Between


  • Little Bear


  • The Goldfinch


  • Dune