My local library never stood out to me as a child. It didn’t smell of old vintage paperbacks or look like the perfect autumnal picture of academia that I would see in the movies. It stood on the main highway of my small Texas town, next to the courthouse and public pool. But there was always a piece of magic in every library visit. Whether it was beaming as I turned in my completed summer library challenge to the librarian or sneaking upstairs to the young adult novel section as a child under...

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