Simon’s sudden blossoming as a teen who can actually speak to librarians hasn’t resulted in him chatting with us every day as he arrives to do his school work in the study area after school. However I’m sure he smiled when he saw the Teen Book of the Month poster I put up on the our noticeboard and Linda claims he muttered “hi” when she welcomed him the other day.

Inter Library Loan Guy, as I suspected he would once I explained the situation, rose to my request for copies of the Skullduggery Pleasant book. He said he’d been a really silent, book-obsessed teenage boy back in the day too. Hard to believe as he’s always full of chat and jokes on the phone when I call to request books. He managed to find a set of ten. They were in storage after the Teen Book Clu...

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