locks and keys

To achieve her dream of attending Princeton University, sixteen-year-old Lily Carter accepts the challenge of seeking the Ivy Key to a magical realm, where she finds herself caught in a power struggle between two worlds, with her family at its center.

A cumulative rhyme relates the sequence of events that takes place before the little girl's father can get into the car where he has locked his keys.

Chloe McBride begins searching for clues to solve a family mystery using the tiny key her elderly great-aunts sent her.

Traces the history of locks and keys from ancient times to the present, describing the development of increasingly complex and pick-proof locks and how they work.

Fifteen-year-old prep-school student Emil Simon's life is uneventful until he finds a key that unlocks every building on campus and begins to discover truths about his mother's death, missing brother, and emotionally unavailable father.

When Benny Alden sees a set of keys that were lost at the library, he follows clues to find the owner.

Alfie accidentally locks his mother and baby sister Annie Rose outside and can't reach the latch to let them in. Soon the whole neighborhood is involved in getting the door open.

Jigsaw and Mila try to solve the mystery of an old key which was found by the new boy in town.

Text and accompanying photographs describe the development and uses of different kinds of locks, relate stories about important locks in history, and discuss the meanings that the words lock and key have taken on in our language.

Led by a cat on a magical journey through the deserted streets of Prague, a man comes upon some of the city's landmarks and finds the keys to his childhood home in three traditional Czech tales.