Show The Secret Hiding Place By JANICE CHATTERLY Grade Im I'm a book called The Secret Hiding Place Placer My nickname is Hide Being a book is sometimes miserable mis mis- erable These things excuse ex excuse excuse ex- ex cuse the expression things called humans who read me surely dont don't treat me nice at all FIRST THEY throw me around just like they dont don't think we books have feel feel- ings Sometimes they pull faces at me and call me ugly names When they do these things I feel like crying Other times they just forget about me and leave me me sitting on the shelf B But ut other other ihei times es' es esIt it is is' s marvelous and I I mean mean it Like when when th they y write beautiful beau beau- beau beautiful things about me for a book report or else they tell somebody else to read me because Im I'm a good book ILL I'LL TELL YOU about one of my experiences with witha a human whose name is Tommy Black He checked me out from the library He asked the librarian for a good story book She referred re referred referred re- re me to him I thought at first it would be another fun time at ahome a ahome ahome home with another human but it turned out to be the most miserable time of my life You should have seen the way he treated me It was terrible N TilE THE DAY he checked me out it was raining lie He walked home and didn't have anything to cover me up with I got all wet and andI I got a h cold When he got home he set m me e down on the shelf I was getting lonely when Tommy set down another boo book k whose name was Black Beauty We had a nice anice chat together I feel Ceel so sorry for her because of oC the way he has tt treated her I wanted to torun torun torun run away because of the things she had said JUST THEN he walked In and my Iny contents jumped My contents is my heart for Cor me you see seer He lie took me and sat down and started start start- ed ell to read His Ills sister Tammy came in and started started started start start- ed a spat He lie got so mad he threw me at Tarn my and this broke my binding apart Ohl did this ever hurt I suffered three days until he finally took me back to the library Of course he had to pay for Cor my damages and the librarian put bandages bandages bandages band band- ages on me and put me back onto the shelf I TOLD all my neigh neigh- bors bars about my miserable experience and they told me about some of or theirs I felt Celt much better after that I just hope whoever is reading this will n never eve r treat books this way because be because because be- be cause we have feelings too |