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Chapters 1-3

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Orlean, Susan. The Library Book. Simon & Schuster, 2018. Hardcover.

· In Chapter 1, the author shows entries from a library card catalog that have to do with beginnings.

· Then the chapter begins with a description of Harry Peak, who was described as being very blond.

· He was born in 1959 and grew up in Santa Fe Springs.

· After high school, he served in the army and then moved to Los Angeles to become an actor.

· Although his family believed he was having some success, there was no record of any parts he had played.

· In 1987, he “was arrested for setting the Los Angeles Central Library on fire . . . one of the biggest fires in the history of Los Angeles . . . the single biggest library fire in the history of the United States” (2).

· The Central Library was designed by architect...

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