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	• The Velvet Room Zilpha Keatley Snyder Yearling, 1988 average customer review:based on 73 reviews
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The Velvet Room

This was the first book I read as a child that transported me to another time and another place....I thrilled along with Robin when she received her key from the old woman and found the old well.....I agonized with her along the dank passage into the old mansion and I stood in amazement with her as she looked at the objects in the glass case and found her peace and solitude in that velvet window seat....how I wanted to be there. I still do.

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Secret Place

I think all introverted, bookish youngsters like myself long for a secret place to get away from their family and others who do not understand them. In this book Robin, middle daughter in a large, poor family during the Depression, finds just such a place in the Velvet Room. This is Robin's name for the library in the old McCurdy mansion on Las Palmeras, the California rancho where her family is working picking apricots. Robin loves the library with its precious historical artifacts and wide window seats hidden behind thick velvet curtains. Robin hides from reality in the Velvet Room until she reaches a crossroads and realizes what is most important to her. This book was, and still is a favorite. Can't recommend it highly enough.

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