# Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library

**Author:** Eth Clifford
**Grade range:** Grades 4–8
**Age range:** 9–13
**First published:** 1979
**Page count:** 96
**Genre:** Adventure
**ISBN-13:** `9780812435467`
**ISBN-10:** `081243546X`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/help-im-a-prisoner-in-the-library
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Two girls spend an adventurous night trapped inside the public library during a terrible blizzard.

## Themes

- libraries
- blizzards
- adventure and adventurers, fiction
- libraries, fiction

## Where this book is assigned

### Young Hoosier Book Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1982 winner (General)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1982 winner (General)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1982 winner (General)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1982 winner (General)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1982 winner (General)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)

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