Augusta Scattergood

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Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them

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She wore heavy sandals, with socks. No kid in the entire state of Mississippi wore black socks in the summer. Shoot, if I wasn't standing smack-dab in the middle of the library, I wouldn't be wearing shoes

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I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything

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For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture window. Her library was filled up with people who loved books