Solstice, known as “Sunny,” is a teenager who tries to steal a 532-page dictionary by slipping it between her belly and her jeans. Her latest effort is a novel, Summer Hours at the Robbers Library, which I found most entertaining. She is also a scholar in residence at Milddlebury College, and she was a Rhodes Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow. Sue has appeared in an impressive range of publications from Condé Nast Traveler to The New Yorker. Sue Halpern has been widely praised for her journalism and criticism. Novels about books, libraries, and bookstores are one of the most important of these groups. I’m Jim McKeown, welcome to Likely Stories, a weekly review of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and biographies.Īs the voracious reader I am, there are certain groups of books I cannot pass up. A teen shoplifter finds herself before a judge and becomes friends with her library mentor.
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