Everyone in Triple Creek loves TV. Everyone, that is, except for Eli's Aunt Chip, who doesn't even own one. In fact, the townspeople love their TV's so much that Aunt Chip has taken to bed in protest and has not gotten up in the last fifty years!
But when Aunt Chip learns that everyone in town has forgotten how to read, she decides she can rest no longer. "I knew there'd be consequences!" she exclaims.
Discovering that the townspeople do use books, but for propping doors, fixing fences, and plugging up the old dam, she teaches Eli how to read. The other children are so amazed at this magic that they want to learn too. But when they go to the old dam to get more books, they and the other townspeople get a surprise they never expected.
In this contemporary fantasy, Patricia Polacco presents a rollicking adventure where children take charge of a troubling future and where hope is never lost. A story for any family who believes in the power of books.
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