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The Library Card : ウィキペディア英語版 | The Library Card
''The Library Card'' is a 1997 young adult novel by Jerry Spinelli. The book is broken into four short stories each following a different main character, but all connected to a library card. ==Plot== The book'' Library Card'' is about four kids who each have some problem in life that the library card solves. The main character of the first section, Mongoose, struggles with peer pressure from his friend Weasel. Weasel influences Mongoose to steal and to skip school. After coming across the library card, Mongoose overcomes this challenge. The second character, Brenda, is addicted to watching television. She can't watch television for a whole week of school for a school project. During this time, she encounters the library card, which shows her the benefits of reading many kinds of different books.. The third character, Sonseray, is a child who lives with his uncle, a migrant worker. Life is hard for him without any stable friends but one day when he discovers the library card and takes out a book, he finds refuge from loneliness. The final character, April Mendez, has just moved for his fakers job. She boards a "moving library," which becomes subject to an attempted hijacking. Surprisingly the hijacker and Sonseray become friends because of their mutual interest in the library card. During the course of the four short stories, the children's lives are changed for the worst by finding the library card.
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