Super Librarian
By Nicole Cowell
Born to a
middle class family on
In January,
her mother told her that she was pregnant with a little boy that was due in
May. Mary was so excited, she had always
wanted a younger sibling, and a boy would be perfect, because she would never
have to share her “girl” toys. She
couldn’t wait to meet her new baby brother.
In about
mid-March of that year, Mary’s mother had an appointment with the obstetrician,
just a check up to make sure that everything was going well. That night, though, when she came home, Mary,
eight years old now, could feel something weird in her stomach, like something
was wrong.
It was dinner
time, and her mom called her into the kitchen.
Mary walked in to see her mom with a pale face and blood shot eyes, like
she had been crying. “Hunny,” Mary could
remember her mother saying, then it came, “I have something to tell you.” These words could strike fear into anyone,
including a child. Tears were beginning
to pour down her mother’s cheeks, “we won’t be having a baby anymore. Mommy had something called a
miscarriage. I know you won’t be able to
understand, but the baby isn’t in my belly anymore.”
Mary looked
at her mother, eyes welling up and raising her voice, as if she were growing
angry, “then bring him back!”
“I can’t, he’s
gone.”
These words
threw Mary into a fit. She ran out of
the kitchen and down the hall, slamming her bedroom door behind her. The walls of her room were lined with shelves
filled with hundreds of books, which were now being torn down by Mary and thrown
across the room.
Upon grabbing
one of the books, she pulled down a few unintentionally, causing them to fall
on her head, knocking her unconscious instantly.
After hearing
the loud noise that the books made falling, Mary’s parents rushed into the room,
only to see her lying lifelessly on the floor, covered in books. At this sight, her father ran out of the room
and called an ambulance.
Soon after
arriving at the hospital, Mary awoke to her parents concerned faces and
immediately sprang up and apologized for her actions.
Mary asked to
leave but the doctors said she would have to remain in the hospital for a few
days because she suffered from a massive concussion caused by the corner of the
book hitting her hard in the back of the head.
They wanted to monitor her since she was only a child.
Little did
they know that the real reason for her stay was a tumor-like mass they saw on
her brain where the book had hit.
Later that
night, Mary had some trouble sleeping, so her mother decided to stay up with her
until she could fall asleep.
“Is there
anything you want dear?” her mother had asked her.
“Could I have
that book over there?” said Mary as she pointed to her favorite picture book
sitting on the heater. With this, the
book lifted into the air and floated over to the bed and into her hands. They were amazed. This had never happened before.
“What was
that?” asked her mother in a shocked, almost frightened voice.
“I don’t
know, mommy.”
“Do it
again,” she pleaded.
Mary looked
hard at the bottle of Pepsi sitting on the table next to where her father laid
his head. “I want the bottle.” The bottle lifted up, just as the book did,
and floated into Mary’s hands.
After that
day, Mary decided that she wanted to dedicate her life to the one thing that gave
her this power, books. Mary became a
librarian and used her powers to amaze kids, and make them want to read. She showed them that things like this could
happen in books, that they can create places that they could never
imagine. Mary eventually funded her own
library, and takes care of everything herself.
That library is the most well known library because that is where Super
Librarian works.