Junia, a dedicated mule with an important job, assists in delivering books and reading material to people in the Kentucky hills and woods during the Great Depression.

Sometimes Maya feels a warm glow inside, but sometimes she feels a different kind of glow, and a trip to the library helps Maya discovers how Black women throughout history used their feelings to help change the world for the better.

"Meet 'Book' a plain old book with a yellow cover. Before the library closed, Book was the most popular pick at Rufus Elementary. Everyone wanted to check Book out. Now it's time to switch shelves. Book is convinced that the kids at this new school will feel the same. (Spoiler alert: Book is wrong. Very, very wrong.) After many failed attempts to change its pages to please its critics, Book soon realizes you can't please everyone and maybe being different...

"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"--