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To the most charming group of people I know:

LIBRARIANS.

You probably don’t remember my name,

but you saw me every week. I was the quiet child

with the long pigtails and the insatiable appetite for

Beverly Cleary, Carol Ryrie Brink and

Louise Fitzhugh. I was the one you had to tap on the

shoulder at closing time, because I was still sitting

on a stool in the stacks, poring over Ramona’s latest

adventures or sniffling as I read Anne Frank’s diary.

I was the little girl with the huge wire basket on

the front of her bike—for lugging home a stack of

books that weighed more than I did. I never thought

to thank you back then, but I didn’t understand how

very much all those hours, and all those books, and

all your patience meant to me or to the writer I

would become. But I understand now. So this book

is dedicated to you, to all of you, in gratitude for

bringing books and readers together.