When Eddie's Aunt Min goes missing Eddie feels he has to go save her. She went to the school library days ago and never returned. The school library? What's the big deal? Well, it is a big deal when you belong to a family of bugs living in the wall behind an old chalkboard and the library is way down the hall. Eddie has to find out what happened to Aunt Min and he really wants to see the library. When he gets to the library he finds Aunt Min injured. But things get worse from there. The wonderful librarian goes on maternity leave after giving birth to triplets and the new substitute (and her brother who is the superintendent) want to get rid of the librarian and turn it into a testing center. Can Eddie help others to see the value of the library before it's too late.
I loved this book in a way a school librarian whose program has been threatened would. I loved the allusions to popular children's books and Eddie's tenacity. The question will be whether readers enjoy it as much.
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