If I was a regular-sized kid I wouldn’t be welcome there.” Short people are in charge in Munchkinland. “I used to think about it all the time, but then I became a Munchkin and everything changed. “I’d stopped worrying about growing,” Julia says in the story. But throughout the novel, she discovers that sometimes what you thought were your flaws are actually your biggest strengths. When her mother forces her to audition for the local university’s summer play, The Wizard of Oz, she’s less than thrilled to be cast as a munchkin. She’s small enough to fit through the dog door in her house, and can roll into a ball and fit in the third seat of the car. Julia is always in the front row for school pictures. “Whether it’s being short or just feeling like you don’t fit in, it’s very relatable.” “Her struggles are things that every kid faces,” said Karen Schiavone, Special Studies and youth programs associate. Wednesday in Smith Memorial Library, followed by a program put on by Chautauqua Theater Company. Julia is Holly Goldberg Sloan’s lively protagonist in Short, this week’s CLSC Young Readers selection. Julia Marks might be small, but that doesn’t stop her from having a big personality.
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