"More spooky and supernatural. Even though all the Egyptians were positive that somebody was fooling and had somehow managed to write the answer to K… - Zilpha Keatley Snyder

"None of my friends know how to play imagining games the way you do," Melanie said. "Some of them can do it a little bit but they mostly don't have any very good ideas. And a lot of them only like ball games or other things that are already made up. But I like imagining games better than anything."

There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best of all was the eager itch of anticipation as you went out the door with your arms loaded down with books.

Something’s going to happen!