Welcome to Stories Come to Life. I am your host, Kathryn Lopez Luker. During this time of Covid, many people aren’t able to use the library in the same way as in the past. To help bring more stories to more readers, many publishing companies are allowing books that are normally unavailable for copyright reasons to be read out loud and shared with others until June 30, 2022. The stories that fall under that special permission will all be taken down on that date, so listen now, while they’re available! Today’s story is shared with permission of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

Here are the last three chapters of The Summer Sleigh Ride, by Betty K. Erwin. The girls, Margaret, Polly, Emilie, and Belle come to realize that they have been transported ahead in time. In fact, they are in the year 2322, and they have been brought to be part of The Museum of the Twentieth Century! Three hundred years from now, explains Jeems, all disease, war, and poverty have been eliminated. It would be an ideal life, but the girls long for home, and even Clara is beginning to remember snatches of her past life back in 1933. Using her ingenuity, Margaret hatches a brilliant plan. 

Now sit back, relax, and listen to this story come to life!