Library

Libraries in books

It's expected that a library will contain books but there are also libraries in books, and some scary librarians!

Below is a list of ten books on our shelves that mention a library and/or a librarian.

Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs

Time is running out for the Peculiar Children. With a dangerous madman on the loose and their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom are forced to stage the most daring of rescue missions. They'll travel through a war-torn landscape, meet new allies, and face greater dangers than ever. Will Jacob come into his own as the hero his fellow Peculiars know him to be?

The Evil Librarian by Michelle Knudsen

In addition to saving the school musical from technical disaster and avoiding making a complete fool of herself with her crush, Cyn has to save her best friend from the attractive-yet-very-very-bad clutches of the school's new librarian who also happens to be a demon.

The Midnight Library - No Escape by Nick Shadow

Emma and her friends are on a boring school history outing. But it suddenly becomes much more interesting when they find themselves on a terrifying journey back in time.

Revenge of the Vampire Librarian by Lee Striker

Ben Lombardi has years of overdue library books stacked up in his wardrobe and under his bed, and the new librarian at Glenbrook Primary School says she knows everything. Everything!Other kids say she kills you if your book's overdue, she drives a weird car with something mysterious in the back, demands absolute silence in the library and no one wants to end up there alone with her.

The Devil Makes Three by Tori Bovalino

When Tess and Eliot stumble upon an ancient book hidden in a secret tunnel beneath the school library, they accidentally release a devil from his book-bound prison, and he'll stop at nothing to stay free. He'll manipulate all the ink in the library books to do his bidding, he'll murder in the stacks, and he'll bleed into every inch of Tess's life until his freedom is permanent. Forced to work together, Tess and Eliot have to find a way to re-trap the devil before he kills everyone they know and love, including, increasingly, each other. And compared to what the devil has in store for them, school stress suddenly doesn't seem so bad after all.

The Spook's Nightmare by Joseph Delaney

The County is facing dark days and the Spook is being haunted by terrifying dreams. Dreams that seem to be more like premonitions... With his precious library burned to the ground and his arch rival, Bony Lizzie, free again, things are falling apart. As nightmares turn real, the Spook's powers seem to be waning - just when he needs them the most.

Every Word by Ellie Marney

Rachel is still getting used to the idea of Mycroft being her boyfriend when he disappears to London with Professor Walsh. They're investigating the carjacking death of the rare books conservator, which appears to be linked to the theft of a Shakespeare First Folio from the Bodleian Library. Worried about similarities between the conservator's accident and the death of Mycroft's own parents, Rachel follows Mycroft to London ... and straight into a whole storm of trouble.

The Scent of Almonds and other stories by Camilla Lackberg

Four unmissable stories set in a Swedish fishing village. A snowstorm traps a family in a hotel on a tiny island off the coast, and then a body is discovered in the library; Marianne is serving up a dangerous concoction at the Widows' Cafe; Two sisters witness a murder in a fashion boutique; Malin is trapped on a boat with a man she is beginning to fear.

The 13-storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths

Who wouldn't want to live in a treehouse? Especially a 13-storey treehouse that has a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of sharks, a library full of comics, a secret underground laboratory, a games room, self-making beds, vines you can swing on, a vegetable vaporiser and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and automatically shoots your favourite flavoured marshmallows into your mouth whenever it discerns you're hungry.