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The Ninja Librarians: The Accidental Keyhand
The Ninja Librarians: The Accidental Keyhand | Jen Swann Downey
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Just a little story about your average sword-swinging, karate-chopping, crime-fighting ninja librarians. "[Downey] shows a rare gift for crafting scrambles so madcap that it's hard to turn the pages fast enough to keep up." -Kirkus Starred Review An Overdue Library Book Can Change Your Life. (So Can a Pet Mongoose.) When Dorrie and her brother Marcus chase Moe-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?
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LeslieO
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Don‘t mess with librarians. #librariansoflitsy

Slajaunie 😂😂😂 4y
readordierachel What a fantastic mug! 4y
Geenie 😆 4y
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LibrarianRyan
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I like the second covers better on this series.

MG
#BBRC
#Coverchanges

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MrBook
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With some of my fanTAStic colleagues at today's luncheon: a long-time circ staff member, a branch manager, the director, moi, another long-time circ staff member, and the circ department manager (who coordinated the event). We don't feel like colleagues, we feel like family. That helps make a library comfy. 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

#LitsyLovesLibraries

kspenmoll ❤️❤️ 6y
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MarticaMustRead
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🙊🙈🙊🙈😓 #Riotgrams #BookishConfessions #BookwormProblems

I'll confess that even though I'm a librarian & work at a library, I still place holds at my local public library & will renew them to their limit! After which, if I still haven't read them, I go in & personally ask if they can extend my renewal 1 more time as long as their isn't a hold on any of them. Shameful, I know, but I just can't help myself!🙈😕🙊

BookInMyHands No shame in that! The only problem I have is when I hear of librarians shuffling the holds queue in their favor. I would write someone up for that- no joke. 7y
MarticaMustRead 😲Ooh heck no!! THAT I would never dream of doing at my library of work or anywhere for that matter @BookInMyHands ! 7y
BookInMyHands I know! I was so mortified when I heard about it. 7y
Notafraidofwords @MarticaMustRead my library does that. I can be number one in the holds list and then I become quickly number 3. It's because the librarians want to read it. I usually don't mind. 7y
SaraFair Just got an audiobook back on Overdrive cause it got yanked away after one week. Now that's been a couple of weeks back and I have no idea where I was in it! 7y
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amypeveto
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"But in addition to making the world a quieter place for those trying to read and think, our lybrarians are also trying to keep people from having their tongues cut out or being thrown into jail or set on fire for scribbling the wrong thing on a piece of parchment. Not to mention keeping their writings from being destroyed or locked away."

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Peddler410
Accidental Keyhand | Jen Swann Downey
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Another librarian adventure. Started this a few years ago when it was added to my school library but gave it up to a student. Glad for the rediscovery.