The Library

• April Henty-Anderson , Grade 6
• Short Story
• 2022

Hi my names Lavender, Lavender Mummbles. And this is my story. I am a smart girl in year 6 and I LOVE books. I read them whenever I can. I'm also very adventurous which is why when I was told not to go into the abandoned library I really couldn't resist myself. When I got there I felt like an ant. The creepy library towered over me and I wondered why it looked so dark and haunted on such a sunny day. I walked up the stony path to the library but I worried that the door was locked. Luckily I was wrong. It was slightly ajar and easy to get into. I quietly shut the door and slowly turned around expecting to see something as dark and sad as the outside. For the second time today I was wrong. The beautiful sun was pouring through the glass roof and the room smelt quite pleasantly of daisies. There was a chandelier on the roof and a warm happy glow about the room that felt so joyful like it was just waiting for someone to come and read.

I decided to get my friend Jade, but as I turned to get Jade I realised that the door had disappeared. I was trapped. And then I heard it. It was faint but there. It was a call for help. I started to follow this mysterious plea that was growing louder along with my heart with each step. The voice was neither a boy or a girl, it was just a voice, a sad voice, that sounded lonely and cold. But there was something else. A thumping coming from a book on a nearby shelf. I walked over to the book and picked it out. It read “Attack of the beetles.” I opened the book and out crawled a small beetle. Then as I happily calmed down the beetle grew and wouldn't stop growing until it reached the size of a lion right before it started chasing me down the long isles of books. Because I still had the book in my hand I decided to try something I had seen on tv. I turned around, opened the book and shoved it in the Beatles face. Right before my eyes it shrank back to a normal beetle and got sucked right back into the book. Then I continued on my way, until after what felt like hours, I reached the back of the library where there was a tree with a nice apple on it that appeared to be glowing. I put my hand out and touched the apple then everything went black. Then I had a vision. The library was full of people until a witch put a spell on a book. Then I woke up and sprinted down the hallway, grabbed the book that I had seen in the vision and stabbed it with a pocket knife I always carry around with me. Then I waited but nothing happened…