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5 pm.  No chatter, no giggle, no  laughter inside the room quiet as a chapel.  Unnerving.<\/em>  Clement Moore could well have imagined Keys Library in 1823  when he wrote  \u201c’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house \u2026 not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse\u2026\u201d   Gone the students who huddle to finish their homework.  Gone the gameboard players who argue over dice, points and rules.  Gone the bookworms who borrow books for the long weekend.   Skip, hop and tumble the papers, pens, and crayons. Pillows and chairs  knocked to the ground like fallen palm trees after a storm.  Only the books remain – exhausted, mute, and disheveled \u2013 to breathe the silence.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhy,\u201d I ask, \u201cour work never finished?\u201d  Dalyn smiles.  Always my assistant smiles at questions without answers.  I pick up a library card  on the floor.  I read the book titles written on it.  The dates too.  Wow<\/em>, a book lover.<\/em>  \u201cWho is he?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeace, Grade 3,\u201d Dalyn grins.  She knows all the students in Keys.  Names and grade levels.  Their parents too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I turn the card.  Only five books more to get a new one.  \u201cTwo books he can borrow on his second card, yes?\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s his second.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cS-se-second???\u201d  I add the books he had already borrowed.  I write the numbers in the air.  \u201cTwenty in one card.  Another twenty, less 5.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c35 books.\u201d Dalyn smiles again.  She probably wonders how I came to be her boss.  I envy people with mental math DNA.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c35 a month?  Grade 3?\u201d  Impressive.<\/em>   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBorrows every two days.  With his mom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAlways Geronimo Stilton?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll Geronimo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I stare at card. Shaky handwriting but all titles spelt correctly.  No missing letter.  Amazing<\/em>. \u201cCall me next time he borrows.\u201d   I cant  wait for Monday  to meet this  bookworm who  just blipped  in my radar.  And his Mom too.<\/em>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5 pm.  No chatter, no giggle, no  laughter inside the room quiet as a chapel.  Unnerving.  Clement Moore could well have imagined Keys Library in 1823  when he wrote  \u201c’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house \u2026 not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse\u2026\u201d   Gone the students who huddle …<\/p>\n

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