While struggling to adjust to life in middle school, Kate Harris unwittingly sparks an angry controversy when she innocently reads a picture book to some first graders--a book which parents, librarians, and teachers cannot decide is educational or obscene.

In Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously.

"Known not only for his brilliant novels but also for short stories chronicling the Jazz Age, such as 'Bernice bobs her hair' and 'The diamond as big as the Ritz,' F. Scott Fitgerald continued to write stories his entire life, some of which were never published--until now. Many of the stories in I'd Die for You were submitted to major magazines and accepted for publication during Fitzgerald's lifetime but were never printed. A few were written as...

"In the near future, the federal government creates a committee to rid society of books it deem sunsuitable. THe libraries vow to protect their collections, and with the help of local governments, form a miltary group to defend themselves--The Library Forces!" -- p. [4] of cover.

"In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear ... This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author; a wealth of critical...