What do you do if you're faced with an enormous tableful of (outdated but still pretty cool) children's hardback ex-library books? And what would you do if you had a child who loves books? And they were charging only a quarter for them?
Yes, you'd dive right in. Even though your daughter's shelves are bursting with books and the basement is overflowing with them and there's a stack of not-ex-library books that need to be read and returned so you can check out more.
This Saturday, the Twi-Night Rummage Sale at the Eagles featured just such a table. The woman who runs the sale rescued the books just as the school system was getting ready to throw them in the trash. I chose 16 books -- 14 for my kid and two for resale. They included such gems as About the B'nai Bagels by E.L. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Konigsburg and a photo-illustrated book on owning and caring for horses by Jill Krementz, A Very Young Rider, and a Robert McClung books on salmon. When I was a kid, I loved his Luna: The Story of a Moth.
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