Such a fun combination of library and ninja. I had fun introducing students to this book. It was well-written and exciting, I highly recommend this book.

What not to like? Adventure, time travel, librarians with swords fighting off nasty Foundation baddies. Unfortunately, I started this and then it ended up being buried in my reading pile. I am very glad that I excavated this from the pile and finished this fast moving adventure that flashes from New Jersey to Petrarch's library to Victorian England and spends time in early Athens and Timbuktu. Dorrie and Marcus along with other apprentice Lybrarians in frustrating Mr. Biggs by discovering what Winn's Gift actually is and keeping history in line. Now, I just need to read the 1st volume and see if more tales have been printed.

'Sword in the Stacks' is the second book in the Ninja Librarians series by Jen Swann Downey. It's a series about kids on adventures in a series of libraries that can take people into the past.

Dorrie and Marcus are home safe from their last adventure when they get some strange visitors and an interesting invitation. They are invited to go to Petrarch's Library for the Summer Quarter. Their parents seem a bit oblivious to any danger that the library might hold or even leaving their kids in the hands of these strangers, so they agree.

The story mainly follows Dorrie as she makes friends, takes classes and discovers the mysteries surrounding what the bad guys, known as The Foundation, are up to.

I didn't read the first book, but I felt like I was given enough information to follow along just fine, but I'm still not really sure why the series is called The Ninja Librarians since they are not ninjas and the title they use is lybrarian. As far as young reader adventures go, its ok. Nothing spectacular, but nothing too terrible either.

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