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\f0\fs24 At the Lighthouse Point library, Lizzie discovers and is denied *Stardust* by Neil Gaiman\u8212?her mother ruling it "not right yet" and invoking the implicit threat of a book-ban\u8212?so Lizzie retreats to three familiar McCaffrey novels she wins back through a measured standoff with Elikapeka; afterward at the grocery store Lizzie completes the dry-goods errand at near-running speed to get home to read, and the outing closes with Elikapeka softening slightly by suggesting Gaiman may be permitted "in a year," while Lizzie silently files the author's name as something to return to, establishing a deferred want and the precise texture of her mother's authority over her reading life.
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