Why a Booktrail?
Lucy is a children’s librarian in Hannibal Missouri who takes to book smuggling and a road trip to save a child
The Borrower
What you need to know before your trail
Lucy Hull, a children’s librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. Ian needs Lucy’s help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay classes. Desperate to save him from the Drakes, Lucy allows herself to be hijacked by Ian when she finds him camped out in the library after hours, and the odd pair embarks on a crazy road trip. But is it just Ian who is running away? And should Lucy be trying to save a boy from his own parents?
Locations
Reset- America/USA - Missouri - Hannibal
- A: Hannibal Public Library
- B: The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum
- C: Tom Sawyer' Statue
- America/ USA - Vermont
- D: Brattleboro
- E: Concord - Concord Community Church
Travel Guide
On the trail from Missouri to Vermont!
Hannibal, Missouri
A great place for a library and a boy who loves to read stories of adventure! The library in the book is real and we’d encourage you to visit and get a copy of the book about the boy who craved adventure as much as the characters in this one! It’s the home of Tom Sawyer! Visit the Tom Sawyer museum
Vermont
Vermont was its own country for fourteen years, long enough to print its own money, long enough that its brave citizens had every reason to think they’d made it, to think that hundreds of years into the future, school children would look back on the Green Mountain boys as founding fathers and visionaries
They were independent enough to be their own strong military presences in the Revolutionary War, to fight someone else’s battle for freedom.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Borrower
Destination: Hannibal, Vermont Author/Guide: Rebecca Makkai
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