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A Conversation About the Rain to The Three Horseshoes

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Hair, Matt. The Midnight Library. Viking, 2020. Hardcover.

• In “A Conversation About Rain,” Nora was attending the Hazeldene School in Bedford, England, 19 years before the rest of the novel takes place.

• She is 14 and is playing chess with the school librarian, Mrs. Elm.

• Although Nora was a champion swimmer, she had quit recently.

• Mrs. Elm assured her that she still had a bright future.

• She told her that she could become anything she wanted when she grew up.

• Mrs. Elm goes to answer the phone.

• Nora listens as Mrs. Elm seems shocked at the news she hears.

• “The Man at the Door,” takes place 19 years later.

• Nora Seed is sitting on her sofa thinking about how lonely she is.

• Someone rings her doorbell.

• It is Ash, a...

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