THE TINY HERO OF FERNY CREEK LIBRARY

Eddie, a passionate reader and shiny green bug, saves the school library in THE TINY HERO OF FERNY CREEK LIBRARY. This funny, heartwarming tale for fans of ESCAPE FROM MR. LEMONCELLO’S LIBRARY and FLORA & ULYSSES. Includes black-and-white illustrations throughout from Newbery Honor Medalist and New York Times bestseller Victoria Jamieson.

Eddie has never traveled beyond the crack in the chalkboard in Mr. Wang’s fourth-grade classroom, where he lives with his parents, his 53 younger brothers and sisters, and his aunt Min. But when Aunt Min goes on an adventure to the school library and doesn’t return, Eddie leaves the comfort of his home and begins a long, dangerous trek. Along the way, Eddie dodges running sneakers, barely avoids getting smashed by a copy of WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, and almost gets eaten by a spider!

Finally¸ he makes it to the library, where he finds Aunt Min stuck on a tall shelf, with two broken legs! And to make a bad situation worse, the regular librarian is out on maternity leave and the substitute, Ms. Visch, has terrible plans to get rid of the library altogether and turn it into a local testing center. No more books at all!

Inspired by the spider in CHARLOTTE’S WEB, Eddie comes up with a great idea; he can use juice from a blueberry to write a note to the librarian. Writing one note a night, Eddie’s message to Ms. Visch is bold—PLEASE SAVE THE LIBRARY! Will this be enough to save the Ferny Creek library?

NUTS TO YOU meets ESCAPE FROM MR. LEMONCELLO’S LIBRARY in this clever story about one bug finding the courage to be true to himself.

LINDA BAILEY is a bestselling and award-winning children’s writer with more than 25 books to her credit. Linda Bailey is the author of the Stevie Diamond mystery novels, the Good Times Travel Agency graphic novels, and 12 picture books, including the acclaimed STANLEY’S PARTY. Her most recent picture book, IF YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE A DINOSAUR, published this spring by Tundra Books, has already been reprinted twice and was just named one of Indigo’s children’s picks of the year. She has won awards across North America including the California Young Readers’ Medal, the Georgia Storybook Award, the Ontario Blue Spruce and Silver Birch Awards, the Oregon SMART Award and the Arthur Ellis Award. Her books have been translated into 16 languages and optioned for film and television.

Victoria Jamieson is the author and illustrator of the Newbery Honor book ROLLER GIRL. She has written and illustrated several picture books, and is the illustrator of Jody Feldman’s Gollywhopper Games series, as well as Svetlana Chmakova’s graphic novel AWKWARD. Jamieson attended the Rhode Island School of Design and worked as a book designer at HarperCollins Children’s Books before moving to Portland, Oregon with her husband. She now teaches children’s book illustration at Pacific Northwest College of Art and maintains a not-so-secret identity as Winnie the Pow, skater with the Rose City Rollers roller derby league.