When outcast seventh grader Bartleby Goode discovers he’s a book crawler - a protector of the written word who can magically travel into books to help save them - he must use his newfound gift to battle an ancient, evil destroyer of words named Lexiconis, who has been summoned by her remaining followers to rule over a bleak, story-less world - unless Bartleby and his misfit crew of fellow crawlers can stop her first. 

The SCBWI Work-In-Progress (WIP) Award assists children’s book writers and illustrators in the publication of a specific project currently not under contract. One winner per category will be selected.