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Making Logical Assumptions Based on Situations Imaginary Library

It was 1879, in a small American town of Charleston and then throughout America when all the books disappeared. They could have been somewhere but no one even had any idea about their location. At that time books must have been ordered only from France and Italy because in these countries a lot of clever and talented authors lived and of course delivery of books cost a lot of money and time. Then only the richest people in America could own books and textbooks were not issued in schools and the more books a student had the higher the status of his parents and him was.

Fiona Phiona Hopkins was a 12-year-old girl who studied at school for children of rich parents and her grandma Kate Hopkins was a former teacher of this school. She must have been one of the most respected people of the town because besides the fact that she was an honored teacher she was also a brilliant writer. Her masterpiece of fantasy genre, the book called The Imaginary Library was lost with the rest of the books. The only dream of Kate and her granddaughter had been to publish this book, Kate had spent a huge amount of money and had given her whole soul to create it. That’s why Fiona all childhood must have been collecting money to buy it from a man who must have stolen all the books of the town. As I have said before, unfortunately their family can’t have had a lot of money to buy all textbooks for school. Every day she went to school and all weekend she worked at home with her grandmother while other children walked and had fun. Fiona had a friend Claire whose parents were improperly rich so their daughter had all the textbooks, but she studied poorly and therefore Fiona was helping her. Claire really wanted to get into the company of children who were very smart and who had all the books, but she thought that for this she needed even more books and 8 the status after that must be higher.

One terrible day Fiona could prepare for the test because her grandma didn’t have this topic in the program. Their form mistress called Fiona and shouted at her very much and angrily left class room. Poor Fiona must have been so upset and she started crying and Claire who also got bad mark came to calm her down. But it couldn’t have helped her. Fiona angrily hit the door of a huge bookcase and the door opened. Friends found themselves in a very strange library. The whole room was full of various books and the celling was transparent and even there were books in it. In front of Fiona was the book under the title Imaginary Library and its author was Kate Hopkins. Fiona started crying again but it was a cry of joy. Claire started collecting books like crazy and began to imagine that the company of cool students must warmly accept her. When Fiona saw in Claire’s bag more than 50 books she suggested sharing these books with classmates and other residents of the town. But Claire didn’t agree with her and said that with such a huge number of books she might become the leader of a company of cool students because she had more books than anyone in the town. Claire was so happy that she decided to open one of her books. The book began to take off and the pages began to break out, the words from the books began to turn into purple butterflies and the covers of all the books simply rotated in the circle. Butterflies began to get tangled in their hair, Fiona desperately tried to knock the door down and after much effort they got out. They managed to get out of there. The girls opened Claire’s bag and from there a lot of butterflies flew and at the bottom the book of Kate Hopkins lay.