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The Lost Library
by

Rebecca Stead,

Wendy Mass (Goodreads Author)

Tri✿'s review

Nov 14, 2023

it was amazing

The Lost Library is a timeless story about a mysterious little free library in Martinville. The story follows eleven-year-old Evan and his friend Rafe as they discover a connection between old books and a long-gone event, exploring the power of good books and the importance owning one's truth. This middle-grade fiction was an enjoyable change of pace from my usual readings.

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“Head high, my dear! Eyes up! Take your place in the world!”
― Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

tags: courage, stand-up-for-yourself, take-charge-of-your-own-world

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“All of life is a mystery, in a way. And that makes every single one of us a detective.”
― Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

tags: detective, life, mystery

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“Being a Great Reader has nothing to with reading great sophisticated books, or reading great long books, or even with reading a great many books.”
― Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

tags: books, books-reading, great-readers, library, readers

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“Being a Great Reader means feeling something about books.”
― Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

tags: booklovers, feelings, library, love-books, readers

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“I am not upset when others don’t love the books I love. We each have our own book spaces inside us, and they do not match up perfectly, nor should they.”
― Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

tags: books, choices, library, reading

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“But aren’t “parents” the source of a life’s direction? If life is a line, leading somewhere, aren’t parents the dot from which it sets forth?”
― Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

tags: books, library, life, parenting, parents, reading

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“For the first time, it occurred to me that books don’t get used up. Books got powered by the reader, didn’t they? They could be read again and again.”
― Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

tags: books, library, loveofbooks, loveofreading, reading

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“That delicious book smell, his heart said.”
― Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

tags: booklovers, library, readers

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“What an extraordinary half hour. How can I explain it? To be useful again, not as a tea-and-cheese-bringer, or a potato-cooker and applesauce-maker, but, almost, as a librarian.”
― Rebecca Stead, The Lost Library

tags: librarians, libraries, libraryry

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“The dear boy was, as I've said, a great reader. He read a good number of books and, more importantly, he took some of them straight into his heart.”
― Rebecca Stead; Wendy Mass, The Lost Library

tags: reading, reading-books

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