The Roy and Helen Hall Memorial library will be closed for approximately one year for renovation. April 30, 2025 is the last day to use meeting and study rooms. May 4, 2025 is the last day of programs at this location. June 13, 2025 is the last day of public access.
Grieving for her dead mother, a poor girl finds all her dreams fulfilled when, on Christmas Eve, she hangs above her hearth a stocking she has knitted.
Twelve-year-old William uses the magic token to return, through the toy castle in his attic, to the medieval land of Sir Simon, which is now menaced by a skeleton ship bearing a plague of ravenous rats.