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The Phantom Tollbooth. From where I'm sitting in my house, I can see two copies and I know there's at least one more somewhere I can't see because I'm not Alec Bings (who sees through things). If anything, before reading The Phantom Tollbooth, I was probably most like Milo.
Milo is that kid you see every day. He's always looking at the ground, and he's always in a hurry to get where he's going-even if he doesn't know. He thinks school is dumb and pointless. Actually, Milo thinks everything is dumb and pointless.
Maybe you're like that too. Maybe we all live in a city like Reality, where everyone was so ignored it became invisible. If no one looks at it anyway, then what's the point in it being visible?
But reading this book can open your eyes to the wonders all around you-to the things that go unnoticed and the things no one pays attention to. Like Milo, the reader is taken on a journey through the Kingdom of Wisdom. Along the way, there is a cast of hilarious characters and puns that help Milo find his way through the thing we call life.
When I was little, all I remember is learning a lot from Milo and his adventures. I learned that numbers and words are both important (even if words are totally better) and that sometimes silence can be the best medicine of all.
I learned to choose my words carefully and I learned that the world always needs Rhyme and Reason. Why? Because otherwise people fall victim to Demons of Ignorance, like the Terrible Trivium. And no one wants to be stuck counting pebbles for eight hundred years.
There's only a few books in my house that are falling apart because they are read far too often. The Phantom Tollbooth is one of them and there's nothing wrong with that.
Forget Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings! I'd much rather read my silly book about all the best lessons in life instead. The only spells for me are ones coming from the Spelling Bee's mouth and Lethargians are far more entertaining than Gollum.
Because sometimes, the best reads are the most simple ones of all.
T-building
With such a large space reserved for agriculture, the school should have a large and flourishing agriculture program, right? Wrong.
We didn't even have a flourishing agriculture program when it was still around, which is why the space we like to call the agriculture area should be converted into at least a few new bungalows.
Narbonne is always overcrowded and the addition of new classrooms would really help lessen burdens. These bungalows don't even have to cover the entirety of the agriculture area, even a row along the edge would put ten or twelve new classrooms in.
It wouldn't even require extra teachers, because this would finally give all those travelling teachers a home.