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When Lydia was five years old, she and her family had to leave their home. They hopped from Grandma's house to Aunt Linda's house to Cousin Alice's house, but no place was permanent. Then one day, everything changed: Lydia's mom took her to a new place―not a house but a big building with stone columns and tall tall steps. The library. In the library, Lydia found her special spot across from the sunny window at a round desk. For behind that desk was her new friend, the librarian. Together, Lydia and the librarian discovered a world beyond their walls, one that sparkled with spectacular joy.
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About Ira Glass
Ira Glass is the
host and creator of the public radio program This American Life. HE started working in public radio in 1978,
when he was 19, as an intern at NPR’s headquarters in Washington, DC. Over the
next seventeen years, he worked on nearly every NPR news show and did nearly
every production job they had: tape-cutter, desk assistant, newscast writer,
editor, producer, reporter, and substitute host. He spent a year in a high school
for NPR, and a year in an elementary school, filing stories for All Things Considered. He moved to
Chicago in 1989 and put This American
Life on the air in 1995. In 2013 Ira Glass received the Medal for Spoken
Language from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.