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Stanza 2 talks about a little girl who goes to a bookstore to read books. The stanza says that the girl inhales the wonderful odor of books.

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This stanza sets the setting of when and where this poem takes place which shows the speaker's love for jazz music, and eventually reveals how books were limited to people like Nikki back then.

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The troubled little girl loves everything about books from their smell, to their hardcover backs.

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The girl visits the library frequently to ask Mrs. Long for books.

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In stanza 7, the little girl dreams about reading books, so we can assume that she enjoys reading, and thinks it is magical.

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The speaker feels welcomed near the library where Mrs. Long helps her to retrieve books.

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the speaker's relationship to reading is love and compassion because stanza 5 says, "Close to my heart."

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Books made the little girl think of her Grandmother.

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The speaker goes to the Carnegie library where Mrs. Long makes it a nice place by being kind.

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it is about reading because it is talking about stepping into the world of reading with the influence of Mrs. Long.

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In this stanza there were no reading with the girl but instead there was more of an intro for the setting, the "vibe," and some characters were introduced.

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In stanza 4, the only books they talk about is Leaves of Grass and Alfred North Whitehead. The librarian takes the extra mile and goes to get a variety of books.

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The speaker holds the books "close to her heart" because she thinks they are special, and they put her in a good mood, and allow her to "dream of a world/far away."

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We could say she now prefers the hard cover books more then the paper back because of the odor.

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The troubled little girl felt safe and warm whenever she read books and she also thinks of her grandmother when she reads her books.

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There is not mention of books or the act of reading because there is no stanza 9.