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\f0\fs24 Told in third person from the viewpoint of Lizzie Hayes.\par
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After breakfast, Lizzie goes to the library and then shopping with her mother. Emma is not much of a reader and declines to go. It\u8217?s the start of summer and Lizzie can easily read a book a day. Her mother\u8217?s rare punishments are usually withholding books from Lizzie. She wants to be a writer of fantasy books like the Lord Of the Rings and Anne McCafferty\u8217?s Dragonflight novels. In the library, she finds a book by an author by the name of Neil Gaiman called Stardust. Her mother reads the blurb on the back cover and takes a quick scan through it and declines to let her read it. Her mother brooks no dissent. Lizzie goes back into the stacks and looks for other books, deciding to read, for the nth time, Dragonflight and others from the series. She decides she\u8217?ll read Lord of the Rings again, though she doesn\u8217?t need to check them out, as she has a boxed set already. She returns to her mother, who looks through the books and approves of them, noting that Lizzie has read them before, and perhaps it would be better to find something new. Lizzie grumpily said she\u8217?d tried to but her mother had rejected the one she wanted to read.\par
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In the grocery store, to save time, Lizzie runs about the store collecting items on the list, to speed up getting back home where she can read and read and read.\par
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