![]() ![]() At the end of the season, there are big hugs and a gift exchange: sweet bread from Tom†s's mother and a shiny new book from the librarianto keep. For the rest of the summer, he shares books and stories with his family, and teaches the librarian some Spanish. Tom†s reads until the library closes, and leaves with books checked out on the librarian's own card. The librarian welcomes him, inviting him in for a cool drink of water and a book. ![]() Papa Grande sends him to the library downtown for new stories, but Tom†s finds the building intimidating. When he is not helping in the fields, Tom†s likes to hear Papa Grande's stories, which he knows by heart. ![]() Tom†s Rivera, child of migrant laborers, picks crops in Iowa in the summer and Texas in the winter, traveling from place to place in a worn old car. A charming, true story about the encounter between the boy who would become chancellor at the University of California at Riverside and a librarian in Iowa. ![]()
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